We design reputation, build it, manage it and measure it.
Our strategic communications work is built around the four things boards already care about, which are reputation, risk, revenue and relationships.
Discuss your brief →One connected programme, or one focused engagement.
You can buy each discipline on its own, although they work best together as a system that keeps learning about your market and how you are seen in it.
01
Design
Design
Audience and competitor intelligence, positioning, narrative and messaging, and a communications plan aligned to the decision the business needs to influence.
02
Build
Build
Media relations, analyst relations, executive profiling, original research and content that earn authority with the people whose opinion moves your business.
03
Manage
Manage
Always-on counsel, live opportunity and newsjacking, social and community, issues and crisis preparedness, and how AI systems describe you.
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Measure
Measure
Share of voice, message adoption, AI visibility, authority and influenced demand, connected in one live view and reported in the terms boards use.
We excel where B2B gets complex.
Our strongest work is for companies with complicated products or heavy regulation, whose buyers need help to understand what they do.
Technology
AI and data, cybersecurity, cloud and infrastructure, enterprise software and deep tech: complex products that need a clear place in the market.
Professional services
Consulting, legal, advisory and outsourcing firms, where reputation is the product and relationships decide the pipeline.
Financial services
Fintech, payments, financial data and asset management technology: regulated growth stories that need credibility before scale.
B2B
Complex businesses selling to other businesses: long buying cycles, several decision-makers and a case that has to survive procurement as well as persuade.
We start by understanding you, and how you're seen.
Before we recommend any message or channel, we build a full picture of the business and how it is perceived. We talk to your leadership, product and sales teams and to customers. Then we look at how you come across in the media, with analysts, in search and on your own channels. The work usually begins in the gaps we find between what you say about yourself and what people actually believe.
- › Business objectives and constraints
- › Product truth and defensible proof
- › Customer and sales language
- › Perception across every channel
- › Competitors and influence map
- › Executive voice and risk boundaries
Senior counsel, close to the work.
Reputation decisions are judgement calls, and most of them cannot be taken back. Deciding what to say, when to stay silent or which opportunity to turn down shapes how a market describes you, so those calls need someone senior in the room. Every Resonance programme is led by practitioners who have been through funding rounds, launches, analyst briefings and the occasional crisis. They keep working on the account after the pitch is won. We start from a reputation baseline and a clear commercial objective, and the people who shaped the strategy stay with it through delivery and review.
- › Business and reputation baseline
- › Audience and influence map
- › Narrative and opportunity plan
- › Integrated delivery
- › Live measurement and review
Frequently Asked Questions
What does Resonance do?
Resonance is a strategic communications consultancy for complex B2B businesses. We design, build, manage and measure reputation by bringing strategy, media relations, analyst relations, thought leadership and content together in one connected programme, supported by our own intelligence platform, Agentcy.
How is a strategic communications consultancy different from a PR agency?
A PR agency is usually measured on coverage. A strategic communications consultancy starts with the business, asking what the market should believe about you and which audiences shape that belief. Resonance works at that level with senior counsel, then runs the media, analyst and content work that puts the strategy into practice. You can still think of us as a PR agency if you prefer.
Where is Resonance based?
Resonance has two offices. Our London office is at Aldwych House, 71-91 Aldwych, London WC2B 4HN, in central London between the West End and the City. Our Manchester office is at Dalton Place, 29 John Dalton Street, Manchester M2 6FW, in the city centre. It is home to Resonance North, which works with technology, professional services and financial services businesses across the North of England. Both offices share one senior team and the Agentcy platform, so clients get the same counsel and the same standard of work wherever they are.
Does Resonance run international communications programmes?
Yes, from London and Manchester we run programmes across the UK, Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Asia Pacific. One senior team coordinates the media relations, analyst relations and content in every market, so clients get a consistent story without managing a separate agency in each country. Where a market needs people on the ground, we work with partner agencies and independent associates chosen for their local media relationships. The same Resonance team briefs and coordinates them. Agentcy monitors coverage, journalists and AI answers across regions and languages, which shows us how a client is perceived in each market.
Which sectors does Resonance specialise in?
Resonance specialises in complex B2B: businesses with technical products, regulated markets or long, considered buying decisions, where buyers need help to understand what a company does. We focus on four areas.
- Enterprise technology. Cloud and infrastructure, managed services, data platforms, cybersecurity and enterprise software, sold to technical buyers and the boards that sign off the spend.
- Deep tech. AI and machine learning, AI hardware, IoT and other research-led technology, where the science has to be made clear and credible for customers, investors and policymakers.
- Professional services. Consulting, legal, advisory and outsourcing firms, where reputation is the product and relationships decide the pipeline.
- Financial services. Fintech, fund data, venture capital and investment firms, working in regulated markets where buyers expect trust and precision.
What size of company does Resonance work with?
We work with companies of every size, including venture-backed scale-ups preparing for a funding round or a new market and businesses in the Fortune 500. What our clients have in common is complexity, whether it comes from technical products, regulated markets or long buying decisions.
Which companies has Resonance worked with?
Clients include NTT DATA, Ensono, Ekco, FE fundinfo, OpenOcean, Aiven, Civo, Cloudsmith, CybSafe, EasyDMARC and Exasol. Resonance has delivered more than 500 campaigns for over 100 technology brands.
Does Resonance do analyst relations?
Yes, we run analyst relations programmes alongside media relations and executive thought leadership, so the industry analysts who shape enterprise buying decisions hear the same clear story as journalists and customers.
Does Resonance do B2B influencer relations?
Yes. Influence in B2B now reaches well beyond the press, so we also work with the creators and practitioners your buyers follow. They include podcast hosts, people with large followings on LinkedIn and the writers of newsletters that buyers actually read. We plan for short posts and clips as well as longer podcast interviews and newsletter features. We monitor these channels every day through Agentcy, which tracks influencers alongside journalists, so we know who is shaping the conversation in your market and when to engage.
How do I start working with Resonance?
Start with a conversation about what is coming up, whether that is a launch, a funding round, a new market, a repositioning or a reputation challenge. A short brief is enough to begin. Every programme then starts with a reputation baseline and a clear commercial objective, and the senior people who shape the strategy stay involved through delivery.
How does Resonance measure the impact of PR and communications?
We report in the terms boards use, which are reputation, risk, revenue and relationships. We set a reputation baseline at the start, then track share of voice, message adoption, AI visibility, authority and influenced demand in one live view. Agentcy's measurement is built on AMEC's Integrated Evaluation Framework and the Barcelona Principles.
What is Agentcy?
Agentcy is the PR Operations (PROps) platform built by Resonance. It brings media and influencer intelligence, a self-updating journalist database, AI visibility tracking, AgentcyAI and campaign reporting into one place. Resonance uses it on every programme, and in-house teams and agencies can also use it directly, starting with a free plan.
Agentcy reads hundreds of trusted publications, social channels, podcasts and newsletters around the clock and flags relevant stories within minutes. It tracks how ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini describe a brand, including which sources they cite and whether they get the facts right. Its journalist and influencer database updates itself from every article published. AgentcyAI plans, drafts and pitches, with every external action signed off by a person, and reporting is built on AMEC's Integrated Evaluation Framework and the Barcelona Principles.
How does Resonance use AI?
We use AI openly and responsibly, mainly to automate repetitive tasks such as monitoring, first-pass analysis, list building and reporting. That gives our consultants more time for strategy and relationships. Our Agentcy platform monitors media, social and AI answer engines around the clock and speeds up analysis and drafting.
We follow best practice for responsible AI, guided by the PRCA's emerging standard, the PRCA AI Green Paper: Setting the Standard for Responsible AI, which our Managing Director, Claire Williamson, co-authored. In practice we tell clients where and how we use AI, protect client data and check facts and sources. People stay in control, so senior consultants make every recommendation, sign off every external action and remain accountable for the outcome.
How can we improve how ChatGPT and other AI assistants describe our company?
We see AI visibility, and the practices now called GEO (generative engine optimisation) and AEO (answer engine optimisation), as a PR discipline. AI assistants build their answers from sources they trust: your own website, trade and national media, analyst reports, reviews and reference pages. Those are the same signals of authority and reputation that PR has always built, so good PR naturally improves how AI describes you.
Agentcy's AI visibility methods were built by communications professionals, for the questions communications professionals get asked. We test the questions your buyers actually ask, by persona and stage of the buying journey, across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini. Agentcy tracks whether you are mentioned, where you appear against competitors, your share of the answer and which first- and third-party sources are cited. It also flags inaccurate or missing claims along with the exact pages behind them.
We then fix the sources by sharpening your own content so the facts are clear, earning coverage in the publications AI assistants trust and briefing the analysts whose reports they cite. As your authority grows, so does your visibility, and Agentcy shows the change over time.
Tell us what is coming up.
It might be a launch, a market shift, a reputation challenge or a question from the board, and a short brief is enough for us to start.
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