How long does an AI-native marketing engagement take?
Anywhere from a fortnight to a year. Survey, the fixed-fee diagnostic, runs two to six weeks. Shift, one defined transformation delivered end to end, runs three to six months against the milestone it has to land on. Focus, a sustained senior partnership, runs six to twelve months on quarterly cycles. Most engagements start with a Survey — it is the cheapest way to find out which of the three you need.
Who do you typically work with?
Senior marketing leadership at consumer-brand businesses — CMOs, fractional CMOs, Global Heads of Brand, marketing leadership teams. Across consumer electronics, FMCG, spirits, premium consumer goods. Most engagements start with a short strategic conversation, often via the SURVEY diagnostic.
Do you replace our agency?
No. We work alongside your existing agency roster — they keep what they do best; we own the strategic methodology and the senior synthesis on top. Where delivery needs scale we orchestrate specialist partners rather than build a staffing model. If the brief is really a production, media or martech job, we will say so.
How do you measure success?
Outcome-led. Strategic outcomes (decisions made, methodologies adopted, brand architectures consolidated) are framed at the start of every engagement and reviewed against in the close. Commercial outcomes (revenue, ROI, market activation) are tracked where they are within Destreza's scope to influence.
Why “Destreza”? And how is it said?
(des-TREH-tha) — Spanish for skill. The name comes from La Verdadera Destreza, “the true skill”, a sixteenth-century Spanish tradition of swordsmanship built on strategy and precision rather than power. Two people could hold the same sword and achieve very different results. AI creates the same distinction: powerful models are available to almost every brand, so advantage no longer comes from access — it comes from application. The full story is on the About page.