Freelance brand & creative strategist — UK

Lucas Jeffcoate

I work with brands and agencies who know something isn't landing, but can't quite name what.

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7 yrs · agency-side strategy
Public sector & commercial

01

Briefs are guesses. I find the real question.

02

The gap between what you say and what people actually feel.

That's where I work.

03

It comes back as one idea, in one sentence.

04

With direction good enough to make things from.

02 — Practice

Four things
I get hired for.

Usually one leads. They rarely travel alone.

03 — Work

A person beats
an institution.
Every time.

Eight campaigns across policing, defence, emergency services, housebuilding, property, retail and consumer tech. The same finding in all of them: a specific person telling a real story outperforms the brand talking about itself — and outperforms the incentive.

Throw them around. Open one.Tap one to open it.

04 — Own work

Humore.

A product built from the same argument this whole site makes.

AI expanded what people can do. Humore is about knowing what they should do. It's a daily practice built around seven capacities AI can't hand you — framing, taste, attention, connecting the dots, composure, communication leverage, learning speed.

I did the positioning, the naming, the brand, the framework and the product. Then I built and shipped it — a React PWA with an iOS wrapper. It's the clearest proof I can give you that I take a brand from a blank page to something real.

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humore.co.uk

Today

What are you actually pointed at?

Framing Taste Attention Connecting the Dots Composure Communication Leverage Learning Speed
Active direction

Build the thing only you would build.

The Autonomous Human

05 — Off the clock

I take
photographs.

No brief. No client. Nobody to persuade. Which is the point — it's where the taste gets used instead of explained.

Jeffnix on Foto

06 — Start something

Tell me what
isn't working.

It doesn't have to be a brief. A half-formed hunch is a good place to start.

lucas.jeffcoate@gmail.com