Of the projects in my portfolio, 23 were done with an agency: 15 with e-Biscus, in Lyon, from 2019 to 2022, 7 with AlienFX, 1 with Maxcense. Before them, in 2017, there had been e-Biscus’s own site.

Agencies have the client relationship, the brand strategy, the volume. What sometimes goes missing is someone able to hold the art direction and the technical execution in one piece. That is where I place myself.

I am not there to take the agency’s place, nor to add myself as one more link to an already long chain of subcontracting. I am there to shorten it. One person to talk to from the concept to the live site: fewer intermediaries, fewer meetings to glue back together what the division of labour had separated. And the client relationship stays where it belongs, with the agency.

An agency's chain with its intermediaries, then the same chain shortened Two rows of boxes joined by arrows, one above the other. The top row holds five boxes and spans the full width: the agency, then three empty dashed boxes, then the live site; a bracket runs under the three empty boxes and carries the word intermediaries. The bottom row holds three boxes: the agency, one person to talk to, the live site; the last two are drawn in the accent colour and the row stops well short of the right edge, a dashed line ending in a left-pointing arrow measuring the missing length. In both rows a bracket caps the first box and carries the words client relationship. A CHAIN OF SUBCONTRACTING ALREADY LONG client relationship the agency the live site intermediaries I AM THERE TO SHORTEN IT FEWER INTERMEDIARIES client relationship the agency one person to talk to the live site
The chain gets shorter, the client relationship does not change sides.

Fifteen projects with the same agency

With e-Biscus, my share changed from one project to the next. Mockups only for LOTV, a hotel designed by Philippe Starck. Design, front-end build and CMS setup for Cobiscol. And for Hemen, a site designed without mockups, directly in Webflow, then integrated into the agency’s CMS.

The agency’s developer summed it up in July 2023, in a testimonial shown (in French) on the about page: « from mockups to build, his precision and experience are real advantages », and « he adapts perfectly to clients ».

A method that grafts on

My method comes down to four moves: imagine, decide, orchestrate, control. It slots into an agency’s process without disrupting it: I take a brief, I return a result that holds. I orchestrate AI on the repetitive execution and I keep judgement on every decision.

The four moves above the line, the repetitive execution below Two horizontal bands of the same width, stacked and separated by a line drawn in the accent colour. The upper band is cut into four equal cells carrying, from left to right, imagine, decide, orchestrate, control; the label judgement sits above it. The lower band has no division at all and carries the repetitive execution at its centre; the label the machine sits above it. Below both bands runs a horizontal axis marked with three ticks aligned on the four cells, with a brief written at its left end and a result that holds at its right end. FOUR MOVES AN AGENCY'S PROCESS JUDGEMENT imagine decide orchestrate control THE MACHINE the repetitive execution a brief a result that holds
The four moves are named one by one, what falls below the line is not.

The format gets decided in the first conversation, depending on whether the agency is after a deliverable or a pair of hands.