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Run it like a public contract. Make it feel like a party.

Marketing, events, creative and operations — delivered with the discipline of work that has to survive an audit. Most event planners have never had to satisfy a city's risk management department.

Why this is one firm

Golden Hour Unboxed was both things at once.

It was a fixed-price municipal contract for the City of Bellevue's Cross-Cultural Center Without Walls — with a compliant insurance and risk package, vendor agreements, and a reporting obligation at the end of it.

It was also an evening at the Bellevue Botanical Garden with twenty vendors, catering, and proclamations from both the Bellevue City Council and the King County Executive.

The events work because they are run like public contracts. That is the whole proposition.

20vendors coordinated
2government proclamations
0risk-management exceptions
What we do

Four ways in.

Same firm, same discipline, a different buyer. This side wants to see the thing, not the contract number.

Event Production & Experience Design

Launches, galas, conferences, community events.

Venue, vendors, permits, insurance, run of show, day-of management — and the paperwork underneath all of it.

Behind it: Golden Hour Unboxed, delivered August 2026 at the Bellevue Botanical Garden on a fixed municipal contract, with twenty vendors, catering, a fully compliant insurance and risk package, and proclamations from both the Bellevue City Council and the King County Executive.

Marketing & Communications

The system, not just the campaign.

Brand and positioning, messaging, content calendars, email marketing infrastructure, social strategy and scheduling, press outreach, measurement.

This is where ToyBox started. Marketing is the backbone of the firm.

Behind it: A full brand system with a seven-colour palette, typography and sub-brand routing. Email marketing infrastructure with segmented lists and campaign reporting. Multi-channel social operations across LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. A published essay series.

Creative Direction & Production

Making the work itself.

Creative direction, media and video production, design, and managing a creative bench at scale.

Behind it: Project manager and creative director of the BELOVED Campaign, a dual-government-funded public awareness campaign coordinating 50+ creative workers across the City of Seattle and King County.

Operations & People Infrastructure

For a business outgrowing the way it has been run.

Systems design, process documentation, HR and payroll infrastructure, hiring, financial operations.

Behind it: The same operations practice that serves public agencies, applied to a business. Twenty years across budgets from $300,000 to $24 million.
How we work

Scoped to the work in front of you.

Some engagements are a single event. Some are a quarter of building the thing that runs after we're gone. The shape is decided once the problem is clear — never before.

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If you've got a date on the calendar,

Let's talk before the deposits go down.

The earlier the conversation, the more of the budget is still yours to spend well.

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