Two problems that turned out to be one.
Upshoot was built on a single belief: graduate underemployment and SME growth are the same problem viewed from two ends. Every pod we place closes it from both.
Levi Pike.
Levi came into marketing through B2B and direct sales, which is why the work here stays anchored to how buying decisions actually get made rather than to how they look in a deck. He works across fintech and edtech.
The idea for Upshoot came from noticing the same thing twice. Every business he met was sitting on a story nobody had the time to tell. Every marketing graduate he met could have told it, and couldn't get anyone to give them the chance.
So the company does one thing in two directions. A business gets the presence it could never have built on its own. Someone talented gets the start the market keeps refusing them. The same move does both, and neither works without the other.
That's the whole company. Everything else is execution.
Every business I meet is sitting on a mission nobody has the time to tell online. Every marketing graduate I meet could bring that to light the way only people who grew up inside these platforms can. That's the whole company. I just put the two in a room.
The people who
do the work.
A team of dedicated young talent, hand-picked from the best universities in the UK, with marketing experience already behind them. They know what stops a thumb because they've spent their whole lives being the thumb.
Your pod is assigned to you and stays with you. You'll know their names. The same faces, every week.
The long version.
We start with a handful of businesses and a handful of people, and we prove the thing everyone assumes is impossible. That you can give a company a brilliant social team and give overlooked talent their start with the same move.
Then we do it again. A network of embedded teams inside growing UK businesses, led by the people we trained ourselves. Proof, client by client, that the gap was never about ability. Only access.
We're building the way up.
Let's see if we're a fit.
A short call. You tell us about the business, we tell you honestly whether we can help. Long enough to see whether this fits.
Or just write to us: levi.pike@upshootcollective.com