Most organizations don't need another marketing agency. They need a communications department.
Senior strategy, delivered fast.
We give research organizations, universities, associations, nonprofits and causes director-level communications leadership plus the production work, without a department's payroll. Strategy, writing, design, web and analytics under one roof.
- Copy in 24 hours
- Most pieces within 72 hours
- No more than three review rounds
- No missed publishing deadline, ever
Whether you're selling a product, building awareness, or advancing a cause, the job is the same: we help you say the right thing to the right people, on time.
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Your organization has important work to communicate, but the responsibility falls to people who already have full-time jobs. Everyone contributes. Nobody has the time or authority to make it all work together.
- Communications is everyone's responsibility, but nobody owns it.
- You produce plenty of content without a clear plan for what it should do.
- Projects stall waiting for information, feedback or approvals.
- You need experienced judgment, but a full-time hire is not realistic.
We run communications the way a department would.
Lead it.
Strategy, priorities, calendars and the decisions about what to say and when. The work of a communications director.
Make it.
Newsletters, emails, web pages, social posts, campaigns and printed pieces. Copy is back within 24 hours, most finished pieces within 72.
Keep it consistent.
Style guides, templates and review steps, so your materials look and sound like one organization. No more than three review rounds, and you approve everything.
Report-to-Rollout: one report in, a full launch out.
Hand us one research report or policy paper. Our team returns everything you need to explain it, launch it and keep it going, all built from the same findings and delivered in about a week.
Explain it
- Executive brief
- Policymaker one-pager
- Explainer video
- Interactive guide
- Interactive data map
Launch it
- Landing page
- Launch email
- Email series
- Press materials
Keep it going
- Social calendar
- Social kit
- Slide deck
Example of scale: an interactive map covering 1,412 facilities.
Examples show the kind of work we produce. The underlying data belongs to the organizations that own it, not to CommsOffice.
How it works
Hand-off
You send the report or paper. We hold a scoping call and agree the deliverables and the delivery date in writing.
Plan and first drafts
Our team sets the main message and drafts the first pieces from the same findings.
Build and review
We build the full suite. Your fixed review window runs here, with no more than three rounds.
Delivery
Final files, ready to release. Larger report sets are scoped up front, with the timeline set in writing.
What the work has produced.
emails written and sent for one church since October 2023, about 1.03 million sends in all.
clicks from those emails. Church-wide sends average a 5.5% click rate.
readers of a weekly newsletter, with 4 to 5% clicking through every year since 2024.
clicks on Give in the first month of a new church website. Visits rose 34%, people 48%.
growth in giving to a choral nonprofit during COVID, 2020 to 2021.
missed publishing deadlines. Most pieces are done within 72 hours, copy within 24.
content audits, about a dozen, plus a dozen staff communications reviews.
of design and publishing for one congregation, including three websites.
Email figures are from the sending platform. Open rates are inflated by Apple Mail privacy, so clicks are the better measure.
What a full embedded communications office looks like.
A national research foundation, since 2023. This is the highest tier of what we do: leadership, planning and production run as one office.
communications output in two years, from 39 deliverables in 2022 to 116 in 2024.
website users in one year, 2024 to 2025.
website visitors arriving from social media, 2025 over 2024.
communications spend from 2023 to 2025 while reach grew. Cost per website user fell from $2.85 to $1.18.
research report requests, May to October 2026 compared with 2025.
email bounce rate after a list cleanup, from 24.5% to 4.7%.
Other leadership results
membership at a statewide association led by Stephen Aber as executive director, with reserves up 44%.
year-over-year revenue growth at a technology company where Stephen Aber supported its expansion from one product to three.
Research foundation figures come from the organization's own reporting and its email platform. Spend excludes salaries. The 2025 figure is a projection.
Led by Stephen Aber
CommsOffice is led by Stephen Aber, who has spent more than ten years running communications for associations, arts organizations, nonprofits and a large congregation, and has led some of them. Our team builds style guides, templates and websites, and writes and produces what goes out the door.
Strategy, writing, design, web and analytics sit under one roof, so a single engagement covers director-level leadership and the production work.
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