Our principles:

1. Creativity is a business weapon. Treat it like one.

2. We do everything a machine cannot do: Taste. Culture. Charisma.

3. We're entrepreneurs first. Built, lost, built again. We know what's at stake.

4. Research is useful. Instinct is essential.

5. AI raises the floor. Imagination raises the ceiling.

6. Creativity that doesn't build unfair competitive advantage is a hallucination.

7. If it can be copied, it will be copied.

8. Attention is the only resource that counts.

What we do.

Creative strategy for businesses that want to lead, not follow. We sit with the people in charge and figure out what makes their business magnetic. Then we build it. Strategy, brand, campaign, propositions, innovation — whatever it takes to create an unfair advantage in your market.

Without taste, charisma, innovation and a point of view, your business is just another commodity. We make sure it isn’t.

First Principle is an initiative of Ralph Wisbrun and David Snellenberg. Backed by a network of the sharpest principals we know.