Built for the Search Everywhere era

We help businesses get found — in Google, AI platforms, and everywhere else your customers are now searching.

Not very long ago, Search meant Google, keywords and blue links. Not any more. Search has fragmented from a marketing monolith into a complex behaviour spanning search engines, AI chat bots, social media and video platforms. This is the Search Everywhere era.

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This is a wild west moment, full of risk (businesses who don't adapt may be cut out of the equation) and opportunity (early movers will be rewarded).

Who

people trust is changing

from institutions to influencers

How

people search is changing

from keywords to conversations

Where

people search is changing

from search engines to chatbots — and beyond

To succeed in the Search Everywhere era, you need to understand where your potential customers are going for recommendations. You need to understand how visible you are in those environments. And you need to know how to reliably show up, in the right way, at the right place, at the right time.

Windward can help with that.

How We Work

AI-native, human-led.

AI has transformed the day-to-day of marketing operations. Tasks that once required large teams of junior executives — campaign builds, bid management, reporting, creative iteration — are now handled faster, and with greater precision, by AI.

Legacy agencies know this, but most haven't changed how they operate. They still bill for junior headcount and bolt on AI as an afterthought. The model is outdated.

We were built differently. Windward pairs senior human expertise with AI execution from the ground up — not as a veneer, but as the operating model itself.

Human strategy

Every client engagement is led by a senior practitioner — someone who has managed campaigns at scale, understands both strategy and detail, and is genuinely accountable for results.

We take the time to understand your business, your sector, and the specific challenges you face, then craft a bespoke marketing strategy for the Search Everywhere era.

No junior account executives. No offshore teams. Fewer people, deeper expertise, higher-value work.

AI execution

We draw on platform-native AI, third-party automation, and our own proprietary tools to handle the grunt work — campaign deployment, bid optimisation, performance reporting, creative production at scale.

This isn't AI as a buzzword. It's AI doing what it's genuinely better at, freeing up human time for the thinking that actually moves the needle.

Who We Work With

We work with a specific kind of business.

Who we work with

Financial services, education & training, healthcare & wellness, property, trade & home services - and any other business that relies on inbound enquiries and lead generation, where every new client relationship matters, and lead quality is the name of the game.

Who we're not for

Startups still finding product-market fit, e-commerce businesses, and organisations without an established marketing budget.

We'd rather be clear about this upfront than waste your time.

Our Results

What we've delivered.

Results from a decade leading campaigns at Omnicom, GroupM, and leading independents. We apply the same thinking, discipline, and measurement rigour to every Windward client.

−32%

Cost Per Lead

Leading UK distance-learning institution

+15%

Leads

Global premium automotive manufacturer

×2.4

ROI

Premium UK insurance provider

If you'd like to speak to someone who can vouch for how we operate, we're happy to arrange that.

In Their Words

We worked with Jack across a sustained period. The results were consistently strong, but what stood out was the way he operated. Transparent about what was working, direct about what wasn't, and always thinking about the problem rather than the contract. Exactly what you want from an agency partner.

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Khaleel Ahmed

Head of Digital Marketing, The Open University

Jack is one of those rare performance marketers who genuinely understands both the numbers and the strategy. He brought real rigour to how we measured our acquisition campaigns, and wasn't shy about challenging our assumptions when the data pointed somewhere uncomfortable. In a field full of people who tell you what you want to hear, that directness is genuinely valuable.

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Jaz Hill

Digital Acquisition Lead, NFU Mutual

Founded By

Jack Relton

Before digital marketing, I made furniture. The first rule at the fine furniture school where I trained in Somerset was that new trainees had to master the maintenance and use of hand tools before they were allowed anywhere near the machine room. The machines were powerful, capable of producing beautiful work at speed, but they needed a skilled operator, someone who truly understood the materials.

Putting in the hard hours hand planing a rough maple block down to dimensions defined to within a fraction of a millimetre teaches you that it's a dense wood that needs shallow passes with a razor sharp blade. When you eventually reach the machine room, you will intuitively know how to set the planing machine — and this will show in the quality of the finished piece.

That mindset is what I've brought to performance marketing for the past decade. AI is our machine room — extraordinarily capable, producing excellent work at scale. But it needs a skilled operator. Someone who has taken the time to understand the client, the sector, the audience, and knows which AI-powered solutions to bring to bear to meet each unique set of challenges.

I've worked at large network agencies — Omnicom, GroupM — and at smaller independents, managing paid search and digital campaigns spending over £5M per month for some of the most performance-driven brands in the UK.

I like getting into the detail. I like solving problems that don't have obvious answers. I like building things that actually work, with cutting edge automation and human ingenuity.

Focused on the craft. Supercharged by tech.

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