A (really) small team. Serious work.

↘ Who we are

1AM Consulting is an independent strategy and design consultancy based in Port Stephens. We work with founders and operators on the decisions that shape the next chapter.

Booking projects — Q3 2026

↘ The story

Built on the belief that good work needs fewer cooks.

1AM Consulting was founded in 2023 by a solo marketing practitioner who'd spent enough time inside large agencies and clients to know what slows good work down: Hierarchies that separate thinking from doing. Decks that replace decisions. Juniors running jobs, seniors stuck in meetings.

We built the opposite. A practitioner that works across strategy, brand, product, and growth — not because we're trying to land retainers, but because good work in one area tends to require clarity in the others.

Three years in, we still work with a small roster of clients at any given time. We intend to keep it that way.

How we think

Four principles

01 — Clarity over coverage

We'd rather give you one sharp answer than twenty hedged ones. If we don't know something, we say so.

02 — Senior on every brief

Partners lead all engagements. No handoffs. No juniors running the room while principals are elsewhere.

03 — We make things

Strategy that ends in a deck is half-finished. We stay until something ships — a site, an identity, a positioning, a price.

04 — Fewer clients, better work

We cap engagements deliberately. The work we take on gets our full attention. No context-switching, no coast mode.

The team

The people behind the work.

A solo practitioner with the connections and experience to help guide your business to where you need it to be. With experience across all forms of marketing and media, you can be confident if there's a problem you've got, I know how to fix it.