We started JXM because we wanted to help mission-driven brands grow. Nearly two decades later, JXM remains a premium founder-led growth partner for mission-driven brands.
About JXM
We aren’t like most agencies. We don’t really see ourselves as an agency at all.
Mission-driven brands are taught to treat marketing like a series of compromises — and most often it takes away from the work that matters. It doesn't have to be that way.
Mission is the promise a brand must keep. Marketing is what lifts it. Growth is what fuels it. There is no trade-off — there never was — and to us, the work that grows a mission-driven brand is the same work that protects its mission.
There’s science to our art, and an art to our science.
Effective
- The work has to move a number.
- Drive a real result we can point to.
- The moment creative stops being accountable to outcomes, it becomes decoration.
- Excess is expensive (and forgettable).
Intentional
- Nothing is accidental.
- Not the color, the copy, the channel, the timing.
- Every choice is made on purpose.
- And we can tell you exactly why.
Beautiful
- Perfect is the enemy of done, but so is sh*tty.
- Beauty elicits a second look.
- The second look earns trust.
- Taste matters more now than it ever did.
Bold
- Safe creative is a myth.
- Bold means taking a position. Being yourself.
- Putting it out in the world under your name.
- Every piece of work that mattered requires courage. Full stop.
On Standards
An essay on the four standards behind every JXM campaign and why we won't compromise on any of them.
Work we love with brands we love.
Advia Credit Union · HELOC / Real People
Northwest Federal · Brand Bridge
Harvard FCU · Harvard FCU is here
CAP COM · A slam dunk partnership · Siena Saints
Featured In
Four partners drive the strategy. Our talented team scales the work.
Jim, Matt, John, and Laurie run JXM. The team behind us is deliberately small and distributed — every person on it earned their seat. You grow, we grow. That's how it should be.
John Cain
Partner | Financial Director
Laurie Busby
Managing Partner | Media + Performance