About
Named for the eight of us.
Ocho started in a spare bedroom in 2018 with two people and a bad logo. We have fixed the logo.
Our story
We stayed small because it works better
We had both worked at agencies where the pitch team and the delivery team never met. Clients paid for the first and got the second. So we built the opposite: one room, eight people, and a hard cap on how many projects run at once.
It means we say no more often than we would like. It also means nobody has ever wondered who is actually doing their work.
The studio
Where things stand
- 2018
- Founded in Phoenix
- 8
- People, all in-house
- 6
- Projects at a time, max
- 61%
- Work from referrals
The eight
Who you will actually work with
Founder, Strategy
Andre Salas
Andre spent nine years client-side before starting Ocho, most of it in retail marketing. He leads discovery on every project and writes the strategy that everything else hangs off.
Creative Director
Priya Nadkarni
Priya came up through packaging design and still treats every website like something that has to survive being picked up off a shelf. She art-directs the photography days too.
Lead Engineer
Marcus Bell
Marcus builds the sites and keeps them online. He is the reason our launches happen on a Tuesday morning instead of a Friday night.
Writer
Jo Whitfield
Jo writes every page of copy we ship, plus the naming work. Former newspaper subeditor, which shows up in how little she lets us get away with.
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