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Marketing & growth agency

MARKETING, BUILT FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES.

We start with the person you're trying to reach — what they want and what makes them decide. Then we make the work, run the campaigns and build the systems that keep it moving.

Creative

Film · Production · Editing · Podcasts · Copy

Growth

Paid Media · Social · SEO · AEO · Campaigns

Systems

Automation · RevOps · Workflows · Analytics

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Capabilities

FROM THE FIRST IDEA TO THE LAST FOLLOW-UP.

01

CREATE

Creative, video, content and production.

Ideas that make people feel something. Filmmakers, editors, designers and writers who understand story first — with tools that help us make more of it.

02

GROW

Campaigns, media, search and distribution.

Distribution built around real buying behaviour — how people search, scroll, ask around and decide. We turn creative into campaigns, visibility and demand.

03

AUTOMATE

AI workflows, marketing automation and RevOps.

The plumbing behind the marketing, so the team spends its hours on thinking and craft instead of chasing follow-ups and spreadsheets.

START ANYWHERE.

We can work on one piece or connect the whole system.

  • A video project can become a content system.
  • A campaign can expose a broken follow-up process.
  • A CRM project can reveal a distribution problem.

Platforms we build on

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Selected work

SELECTED WORK

Miracle of Mind

Isha Foundation

Campaign outreach · Event activation · Youth engagement

Save Soil, Miracle of Mind and Maha Shivratri campaigns.

Ladli Behna Yojana

MP Government

Campaign copy · Ad scripts · Production coordination

Scripts and shoot coordination for a state-scale public campaign.

Engineering Brand Studio

DevDynamics

Founder content · Podcasts · Social distribution

A repeatable content system for a B2B engineering intelligence brand.

Clinic Growth Engine

Healthcare · Top dermatology clinics in India

SEO · Paid acquisition · Content · Local visibility

Visibility and booked appointments for Practo-listed doctors.

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Save Soil

Production · Artist coordination · Distribution

43L+ views.

Live & Nightlife

Independent

Event curation · Promotions · On-ground logistics

50+ music events with India's top DJs at venues including Taj Bhopal.

How we work

PSYCHOLOGY FIRST. TECHNOLOGY SECOND.

Every good campaign starts with a human truth — a want, a fear, a status game, a moment of doubt before someone buys. That thinking is ours, not a machine's. We use AI where it genuinely helps: research at scale, more variations to test, and follow-up that never slips — so the team spends its time on the idea and the craft.

  1. 01

    Understand

    Conversations, reviews, sales calls and category truths — what people actually believe

  2. 02

    Create

    A sharp idea, written and shot by people. Tools help us make more versions of it

  3. 03

    Distribute

    Campaigns, search, social and outbound

  4. 04

    Capture

    Forms, CRM, enrichment and lead routing

  5. 05

    Follow up

    Timely, human-sounding email, WhatsApp and sales workflows

  6. 06

    Learn

    Reporting, attribution and honest optimisation

One agency. One connected system.

The founder

BUILT BY SOMEONE WHO HAS WORKED ACROSS THE WHOLE STACK.

Priyanshu Saxena

Priyanshu's career has moved between marketing, production, music, events and community. He has written campaigns, run paid media, worked on shoots, built communities, produced music, managed events and worked with organisations including Isha Foundation, Urban Company, Eicher Tractors and government campaigns.

His formal training includes Advertising & Branding at MICA (Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad), India's leading strategic marketing and communications school.

First Principles brings those disciplines together — an instinct for people and story, supported by modern tooling and automation.

The result is an agency built for companies that don't need another vendor for every part of marketing. They need a small team that can understand the problem, build the system and execute it.

Create. Grow. Automate.

TELL US WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO GROW.

We'll figure out what needs to be created, distributed or automated.