For Agencies
Your Idea. Your Client. Our Shop.
Cadence is the build partner behind agencies like Jack Morton, Wasserman, Turner Sports, VML and WPP, Solomon Group, and TSMGI, and plenty of small, boutique agencies too. You bring the concept and own the relationship. We engineer it, build it, ship it, and set it up, working as part of your team.
How We Work With Agencies
Your client stays your client.
We don't pursue the brands we build for. If one of them calls us directly, we send them back to you.
NDAs whenever you need them.
Plenty of our best work never shows up on our website, and that's fine with us.
We work as part of your team.
The best programs happen when we're embedded with you, not working off a purchase order. Use our shop and warehouse for client walkthroughs, demos, and builds in progress.
Your renderings, or ours.
Bring finished renderings and we'll build to them. Or bring a sketch and a deadline, and our designers will develop the concept and renderings with you, presented under your name.
Fast when the calendar is tight.
We can fast-track programs other shops can't. Chicago's stocking distributors and specialty subcontractors are minutes from our shop, and a deep pool of local craftspeople lets us double or triple our in-house crew when the schedule calls for it.
Partners for the long run.
Some of our longest-running relationships are with agencies. We've stayed with teams through new accounts, new clients, and new agency names.
What We Bring
- Design in SolidWorks, straight to shop drawings
- Lighting, LED, AV, and creative technology, programmed in-house
- Kinetic, interactive, and custom games
- Metal, millwork, plastics, sculpture, and scenic art
- Graphics test-fit in our shop before they ship
- Crating, touring logistics, install, and strike, nationwide
Agency Work
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360 CHICAGO Welcome Experience
We engineered, built and installed the millwork for 360 CHICAGO's new 5,000-square-foot welcome experience, 94 floors above Michigan Avenue. It's built to stand up…
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Capital One at the Final Four
Fan experiences for Capital One, presenting sponsor, at the Final Four for several years running. Scenic, graphics, LED and a custom-built interactive basketball game,…
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Beam Suntory Bourbon Legends Boxcar Tour
A two-year touring bourbon experience for Beam Suntory (2018–2019) that brought guests to Kentucky by boxcar to taste Jim Beam, Maker's Mark, Knob Creek,…
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Abbott × Real Madrid at the NYSE
Abbott’s Real Madrid partnership launch at the New York Stock Exchange, built and installed by Cadence for agency TSMGI: a real-turf soccer pitch, an…
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Coors Milepost Zero
Fabrication, interior finishing, and on-site installation for a Coors bar rebrand at Milepost Zero, the food hall at McGregor Square in Denver, built by…
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Abbott at the Chicago Marathon Expo
The Abbott booth at the Abbott Health & Fitness Expo for the Bank of America Chicago Marathon, built by Cadence for agency TSMGI to…
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Puma × Dua Lipa
A PUMA × Dua Lipa pop-up on Michigan Avenue during Lollapalooza, brought to life with hundreds of runs of pixel-addressable LED, an interactive wall…
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What Agency Partners Say
“I'd also like to add an appreciation for your creative vision, meaning that sometimes we'd have an idea we would describe on a call and you'd run with it and knock it out of the park.”
Creative director, agency · Capital One at the Final Four
“We know that we always come with short timelines, constant changes, and big asks and really appreciate you and the team stepping up to the build. The fabrication was phenomenal, the creative was incredible, and the animation was so well done.”
Agency producer · Capital One at the Final Four
Agencies We Build For
Plus many small and boutique agencies who use us as their in-house shop.
How a Job Runs
1. Brief and bid
Send the concept and the deadline. We come back with a buildable approach and a number.
2. Drawings
SolidWorks model, renders, and shop drawings for your approval.
3. Build
Fabrication, finish, graphics, and tech in our shop, with walkthroughs whenever you or your client want them.
4. Ship and install
Crated, freighted, installed, and struck by our crews, anywhere in the country.
Frequently Asked Questions
Will you ever go direct to our client?
No. If your client contacts us, we send them back to you.
Can you sign an NDA?
Yes, before we see anything.
Can you work from our designer's files?
Yes. We work in SolidWorks and can take SketchUp, AutoCAD, and most 3D formats.
Can our client visit the shop?
Yes. Walkthroughs, demos, and mockup reviews are part of how we work.
How fast can you turn a build?
It depends on scope, but designing in the same software we build from, plus Chicago's supplier base, cuts steps out of most schedules.