Smalleris better.
The traditional agency model was built on scale: more bodies, more process, more overhead passed to the client. We built something different on purpose.
HOW WE COOK
Depth beatsheadcount.
The traditional agency model was built on scale: more bodies, more process, more overhead passed to the client. We built something different on purpose.
At Homemade Pasta, every engagement is run by senior operators who have been in the kitchen long enough to know what actually moves the needle and what’s just noise.
We pair that experience with the tools rewriting what’s possible: AI-powered research, automation that eliminates the work nobody should be doing manually, and analytics that surface the signal in the data faster than any team of coordinators could. The result is a kitchen that moves fast, wastes nothing, and delivers work that a larger agency would need twice the time and three times the budget to match.
Smaller isn’t a limitation. It’s the model.
The chefs
Experienced strategists who know how to ask the right questions. Senior people who have run these accounts, built these campaigns, and solved these problems before, not coordinators following a template.
The tools
AI and automation that execute the answers at a speed no headcount model can match. Research that used to take a week, done overnight. Reporting that used to require three analysts, built into a dashboard.
Neither works without the other
The advantage isn’t the technology. And it isn’t the experience alone. It’s what happens when sharp operators use the right tools, and know exactly what to do with what comes back.
Building something different on purpose. Senior Operators using the right tools.
I’m justIsaiah.
The Residency is a podcast-style series at Hmde. that explores the chefs who make up our kitchen. Monthly, we sit down with no agenda, just two people finding out how the other one thinks.
At Hmde., the people who run the work are called chefs. Our first sit-down features Chef Isaiah, employee number one at Hmde. See what Isaiah has to say about life in a rapidly changing world of technology.
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“If you don’t know how to do the long way first, you can’t appreciate the shortcut.”
Own therecipe.
Michelin-star chefs don’t outsource their recipes. They own the sourcing, the prep, every detail. That’s what turns food into art. Marketing deserves the same. Most of the industry is chasing the next AI tool like it’s the ingredient that fixes the dish. It isn’t. MIT reports 95% of generative AI pilots are failing to deliver. The problem was never the technology. It’s who’s holding the knife. Uphousing is how we fix that: a hands-on partnership where our team and yours become co-authors of the work. Together, we:
Own the recipe
Your talent takes strategic command of the value chain: the decisions, not just the execution.
Know every ingredient
A working view of your whole tech stack, not a black box someone else operates for you.
Run a tighter kitchen
Workflow that’s efficient, elegant, exact. Nothing wasted, nothing repeated without getting better.
It’s not about replacing your people. It’s about sharpening their knives.
The relationship has to change too.
The old model, where the agency cooks everything and one size fits all, doesn’t serve anymore. People deliver the work, not agencies. Smaller teams, sharply trained and running tuned tools, move faster and cut cleaner than a bigger bench ever could.
Tell us whatyou need.
We will get right on it. What you write here goes to a person who can actually answer it, and the person who answers is the person who will do the work.
Heard, chef.
It’s with a person now. You’ll hear back from the one who will do the work.
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