CASCARADiscuss a creative sprint

Creative thinking, on demand

When you need more ideas,
not more people.

Got the strategy, but need more routes? Send us one clearly defined creative task. We handpick senior creatives to attack it in parallel, a Creative Director curates the work, and you get the strongest ideas back within 24/48 hours.

Discuss a creative sprint

No subscription. No freelancer hunting. No talent management.

Confidential by default · Senior human creatives · CD reviewed

The whole experience

01Send the task
02We assemble the brains
03Get the strongest ideas
Turnaround24/48h

Built for the “we need more” moment

Your team has three routes. You wish you had fifteen.

Confidential by default. Only selected creatives invited to your project can access your brief.

  • Advertising agencies
  • Creative agencies
  • Social agencies
  • Brand studios
  • In-house creative teams

Sometimes the problem isn't headcount.
It's optionality.

You have the strategy. You have the team.

But the scripts aren't there yet. The PR ideas feel obvious. The visual routes all look the same. Or the client killed the favourites and wants something new by Monday.

Hiring another freelancer means finding them, checking availability, briefing them, onboarding them and managing another person.

Cascara lets you buy the part you actually need: more high-quality creative thinking.

Creative sprints

One specific problem.
Several senior brains.

Cascara works best when the creative task is clear enough for multiple people to attack independently.

Film & TV

Need more scripts?

Alternative scripts, film concepts, narrative routes, opening ideas, endings and executions built around an existing strategy or proposition.

“We have the platform. Give us more 30-second film routes.”

PR & Stunts

Need something people might actually talk about?

Earned-first ideas, PR stunts, cultural interventions, brand acts and activation concepts.

“The campaign needs one genuinely newsworthy idea.”

OOH & Key Visuals

Need more ways to crack the visual idea?

Headline + visual concepts, key visual territories, outdoor routes and simple visual devices.

“We like the proposition. We don’t like any of the executions yet.”

Social & Activation

Need formats, not another content calendar?

Social-first campaign concepts, repeatable formats, activations, creator ideas and launch concepts.

“Give us ten ways this could live culturally and socially.”

Also useful for naming, headlines, experiential ideas, brand activations and other clearly defined creative tasks. Cascara delivers creative thinking, concepts and routes — not finished production assets.

Cascara works best when the question is specific.

Good fit

  • “We need more TV scripts.”
  • “We need PR-worthy launch ideas.”
  • “We need new KV routes.”
  • “Give us more OOH concepts.”
  • “We need activation ideas for this platform.”

Not the product

  • “Join our pitch team for the next two weeks.”
  • “Sit in all our client meetings.”
  • “Be our freelance copywriter until the project ends.”
  • “Own the entire campaign from strategy through production.”

Cascara doesn't replace your creative team. It gives your creative team more shots at the answer.

How it works

01—04

01 / PROCESS

Send the task

Give us the brief, strategy or existing campaign platform — plus the specific creative problem you want solved.

Examples: films, PR ideas, KV routes, OOH, activations, social concepts.

02 / PROCESS

We assemble the brains

We select senior creatives whose experience fits the category, medium and challenge. Multiple creatives attack the same problem independently.

The agency does not browse profiles or choose freelancers.

03 / PROCESS

CD review

A Creative Director reviews everything, removes the obvious and repetitive work, challenges promising routes and curates the strongest thinking.

04 / PROCESS

Get the good stuff

Within 48 hours, you receive a clean presentation of the strongest creative routes — ready for your team to build on, develop or take forward.

No talent management. No chasing. No individual invoices.

Ideas from people who’ve done this before.

Cascara works with senior creatives and Creative Directors with experience on some of the world’s biggest brands and recognition from the industry’s leading creative awards.

Recognition includes

  • Cannes Lions
  • D&AD
  • The One Show
  • Clio Awards

Awards and recognition earned by individual members of the creative network during their careers.

Experience on brands including

  • Netflix
  • Apple
  • Coca-Cola
  • Samsung
  • Red Bull
  • McDonald’s
  • Tesco
  • Shell
  • Toyota

Brand experience reflects work completed by individual creatives during previous agency, freelance or in-house roles.

Agency experience includes

  • DDB
  • Publicis
  • Havas
  • McCann
  • VML
  • dentsu

Agency names refer to previous professional experience of individual creatives in the network.

Our network includes creatives with experience across leading global and independent agencies.

Start a sprint

Creative Sprint

A focused burst of senior creative thinking around one clearly defined task.

Discuss a creative sprint

Scope depends on the task. A TV script sprint, PR ideation sprint and KV sprint may require different numbers of creatives and outputs. We’ll define the exact deliverable before starting.

  • Senior creatives selected for the task
  • Multiple independent perspectives
  • Creative Director review
  • Curated creative routes
  • Clean presentation deck
  • 48-hour standard turnaround
  • Confidential by default
  • No subscription
  • No freelancer management

Not crowdsourcing.

Traditional creative crowdsourcing

  • Hundreds of people may see the brief
  • Creatives often work speculatively
  • Only winners get paid
  • Quantity over relevance
  • Client has to sort through submissions

CASCARA

  • A small number of relevant senior creatives are specifically invited
  • Everyone who accepts and delivers gets paid
  • Creatives are selected to fit the task
  • Multiple brains work independently rather than as one committee
  • A Creative Director reviews and sharpens the output
  • The client only sees the thinking worth seeing

If we invite a creative to work, they get paid. Period.

Human ideas. AI-speed.

Senior human creative thinking is the product. Experienced creatives develop the ideas, and a Creative Director curates and refines the strongest work.

AI stays behind the scenes, helping with matching, availability, workflow, project coordination, administration and presentation preparation.

The ideas come from real people.

  • Different careers.
  • Different cultures.
  • Different references.
  • Different senses of humour.
  • Different taste.

Because ten prompts are not the same thing as ten brains.

What we remove

You brief Cascara once.
We handle the creative network.

Talent matching
Availability
Rates
Brief distribution
NDAs
Deadlines
Reminders
Payments
Creative review
Deck preparation

No browsing talent. No managing creatives. No buying hours or subscriptions.

You don't hire more people. You get more thinking.

For creatives

Good briefs. Fair pay. Zero pitching for work.

CASCARA is building a curated network of senior creatives, copywriters, art directors, strategists and Creative Directors.

When a brief matches your experience, you receive an invitation with the category, task, time commitment, deadline and guaranteed fee.

ACCEPT or SKIP.

If you accept and deliver the agreed work, you get paid regardless of whether your idea makes the final shortlist.

You’re invited for a specific creative challenge, not placed inside the client’s team as temporary staff.

FAQ

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Next brief, give yourself more options.

Film scripts. PR ideas. Key visuals. Activations. OOH. Social concepts.

Send one specific creative problem. Get several senior brains attacking it.

Discuss a creative sprint

No subscription. No freelancer search. No talent management.