Insights & Strategy
What a Good Creative RFP Actually Looks Like
Most creative RFPs are wishlists dressed as specs. Agencies bid blind, work suffers, the relationship breaks within a year. A good creative RFP does six things — names the audience, sets the budget honestly, picks one KPI, defines the deliverable, locks the timeline, and tells the agency what it does NOT want. The template, the common failures, and what separates a brief that wins work from a brief that wastes everyone's time.