Built for complex buyer journeys.
"Our old website was not a conversion engine. Trying to make updates piecemeal in our old CMS was taxing and time-consuming. Because we have so much more control over our content, we're able to better serve people coming to us for more information. The difference is astounding."
Brian M. KlemmDigital Communications829 Studios is a Boston-based integrated digital marketing agency serving brands including American Express, GitHub, Cloudflare, Fidelity, REI, Stanley, Ramp, Vimeo, Axonius, Draper James, and Harvard Kennedy School. We help mid-market and enterprise organizations navigate the complex and competitive journey from awareness to revenue across industries, including B2B, e-commerce, D2C, higher education, and professional services.
Each engagement begins with a performance audit across all active channels producing a prioritized roadmap that tells you exactly where to invest, where to cut, and what to fix before a dollar of media runs.
What We Do
Full-service programs spanning paid search, paid social, programmatic & CTV, SEO, AI optimization, content strategy and creative execution, affiliate, marketing automation, web design and development, brand strategy, CRO, PR, and media relations, built around a single measurement framework tied to your revenue.
We also build proprietary technology to give clients a measurable edge at every stage of the funnel. Apollo, our performance software platform, delivers real-time cross-channel intelligence. Propel, our web framework, ensures every site is engineered for SEO and conversion from day one. Our AI Optimization practice treats LLM visibility in ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and beyond as a measurable performance channel.
Impact
Who We Work With
Brands that have maxed out what a single-channel specialist can deliver and need genuine technical depth across paid, organic, web, and comms. 829 is a strong fit for growth-stage and enterprise companies with complex buyer journeys, and PE and VC-backed portfolios looking to accelerate digital performance across multiple brands.
We partnered with POLYWOOD to build a scalable, AI-driven content strategy that closed critical gaps across unbranded and mid-funnel search.
The result: rapid content production aligned with their brand voice that expanded semantic coverage, driving increased conversions and 13x ROAS — positioning POLYWOOD to compete in both traditional SEO and the emerging AI search landscape.
New England Inns & Resorts needed to amplify content from hundreds of member properties and build authority across AI-driven search. 829 Studios turned member-submitted travel content into a centralized, optimized Content Library.
Results: 15% increase in AI visibility, 150+ new top-10 keyword rankings, and citation share growth from 2% to 6% across answer engines.
When a buyer asks an LLM which vendors to consider, your brand either shows up or it doesn't. Most companies have no idea if they’re even in the competition. 829's AI Optimization practice starts there. Using Profound, we audit exactly how your brand is being cited — or ignored — across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. Then our Query Fan-Out methodology identifies the prompts that actually drive discovery in your category, and we build the content and technical strategy to win them.
829 runs full-service programs across paid search, paid social, programmatic, and CTV, retail media, and account-based marketing. Budgets, audiences, and creative are coordinated across platforms and optimized against revenue outcomes. Our Apollo platform delivers real-time cross-channel intelligence. Looker Studio reporting gives clients full visibility into what's actually driving results.
829 designs and builds the digital infrastructure that performance marketing runs on: brand strategy, web development on WordPress, Drupal, and Shopify, UX strategy, digital product design, and CRO. Our Propel framework ensures every site is engineered for SEO and conversion from day one.
829's Strategic Comms practice covers PR, media relations, crisis communications, influencer, affiliate, and online reputation management, with placements in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Bloomberg, and CNBC. Earned media traction and AI search visibility are increasingly the same problem. We approach them together.
We conduct an omni-channel performance audit covering paid, SEO, content, web, email, and attribution. Available as the starting point for every engagement or as a standalone service — up to 90 hours of senior-level analysis at no commitment. We recommend a formal channel review every six months.
829 works with private equity and venture-backed portfolios to accelerate digital performance across multiple brands. We understand the investment thesis and work backwards from it: establishing digital presence, scaling paid programs, or building the organic visibility and attribution infrastructure that matters at exit.
