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By global award-winning firm, Ruder Finn Era

An inspiration, planning and creation tool.

Alpha turns a brief into research, strategy, campaign ideas and finished work. Built on decades of award-winning practice, your brand's own knowledge, and the way things are done in your market.

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150+ award nominations in the last decade70+ wins at major award bodiesGlobal recognitions at the SABRE Awards and Cannes Lions.
Act one · Get inspired

Get ideas that come in all shapes and sizes.

Give Alpha a brief and it sparks you before it writes anything: your files, live web research, and knowledge built from years of award-winning work. Then it gives you pieces of inspiration, each one grounded in what it found, and each one deliberately different from the last.

What the cards hold
Tactics
Big ideas
Human truths
Taglines
Names
Much more

And when you want to trust it to fate, draw from the arcana mystery cards and let chaos bend the next round of thinking into your final idea.

Act two · Plan

Brief to campaign to full plan.

Alpha runs our whole strategic planning process, each phase built on the one before it.

01

Research

Live web research through a series of strategic lenses or perspectives.

02

Audience synthesis

A deep analysis of the audience, synthesized or real research upload.

03

Insights

The sharp strategic opportunity to build on.

04

Hero ideas

Distinct creative routes from proven thinking patterns, not one creative person's taste.

05

Deck and microsite

The complete plan as a presentation and a shareable site.

Planning a retainer, not a campaign? Alpha assembles the framework, the always-on work and the campaign moments into one plan.

Every plan is grounded in market packs covering 50 markets, so the work fits the place it will run.

Act three · Execute

Your plan evolves into the work.

When a plan is done we infer and build all execution material, every one threaded with the campaign context and your brand parameters.

A room per tactic

Every tactic gets its own strategic purpose, with campaign context already inside.

Multiple deliverables

Press releases, social posts, op-eds and more, generated as a series in one pass.

Creative

Visuals for the work, created within the tool.

PPTX and DOCX

Decks and documents exported ready to send.

The know-how, our edge

Six proprietary knowledge bases. And one that is yours.

Alpha doesn't think from the open web. It thinks from six proprietary knowledge bases that thread a global firm's know-how into every brief, and a seventh that is all your own.

01

Creative thinking patterns

The replicable patterns behind award-winning ideas. More than 80% of Cannes Lions winners are built on a handful of these.

02

Communications practice

How the craft is actually practiced, across PR, brand, public affairs, and crisis.

03

Country & culture

Local market fluency from insights developed and stored over years, so the work lands where it runs.

04

Industry & sector

The context of your category, built into every step.

05

The craft of deliverables

What 'good' actually looks like, format by format, audience by audience.

06

Award-winning practice

Adaptive learning from the firm's own case studies, award entries, and best work for global brands.

07Yours

Your brand

Your voice, your guidelines, the things you'd never say. The one knowledge base that is yours alone. We never train on your data.

It sounds like you, because it knows you.

Your brand voice, your guidelines, and your no-go lines thread through every step, research to deliverable. The work comes out on-brand by construction, not corrected into shape afterward. One client. One knowledge base. The way you work. Always true.

The difference

A chatbot answers. Alpha does the work.

Give the same brief to a chatbot and you get a chat answer from a model that knows everything in general and nothing about your brand. Give it to Alpha and you get a worked idea, built on research, knowledge patterns, your own brand knowledge and the market it has to live in.

Try it on your own brief below, then see what ChatGPT or Claude would give you, side by side.

Try one yourself

Your brief, worked.

Anywhere

Walk into any market.

Alpha works in 25 languages, including full right-to-left Arabic. Research digs in the market's own language, and the work reads like it was made there. Your market's language, not a translation of someone else's idea.

Why 'Alpha': 8-12 Hz. The brain's alpha state: calm, alert, and most able to form unexpected connections. The state the best creative work comes from. We named the tool after it.

See what your next brief becomes.

A campaign's worth of thinking, in an afternoon.

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