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About Ideate: Clear thinking. Bold creative. Work built around people.

We are a small, senior team based in Bedford, working with ambitious organisations of every kind.

Good creative should do more than look polished.

We bring together brand strategy, creative design, digital marketing and behavioural insight, helping business owners, MDs and marketing teams show up with clarity and confidence.

Our approach

You work directly with the people shaping the strategy, asking the right questions and creating the work. We are collaborative, honest and focused on what will make the biggest difference to your business.

Our expertise

With over 40 years of combined experience across brand, marketing, design and web and digital strategy, we know what good work looks like and what it takes to get there. We use behavioural insight to understand what people notice and act on, and AI-supported research to explore markets and opportunities faster. But the judgement stays human.

Our working principles

Hayley talking Simon through a wall of ideas, sketches and sticky notes in the studio
Simon leaning over storyboards on the studio table, Hayley working beside him
Hayley looking over a designer’s shoulder at the Sava website on an iMac

Understand what matters: We start by understanding the business, the audience and the decision you need people to make.

Create with intent: Every brand, website, campaign or piece of content should have a job to do.

Design for decision: We shape our work around how people think, search, compare, trust and choose.

Meet the directors

The two people you’ll work with, from the first conversation to the last.

Simon Baghomian, arms folded, smiling

Simon Baghomian

Creative Director & Founder

Simon leads the thinking, the brand and the design. With a background spanning brand, web and campaigns, and a behavioural marketing qualification, he’s happiest finding the one insight that makes everything else simpler.

Hayley Simpson, smiling

Hayley Simpson

Marketing Director

Hayley leads the marketing strategy and delivery, turning the insight into campaigns that run. She keeps the work honest, measured and moving, and makes sure the plan survives contact with the real world.

“We start with people. Always. We look beyond what a business wants to say and consider what people need to understand before they engage, what might make them hesitate, and what will give them confidence to move forward.”

Simon Baghomian, Creative Director & Founder

Questions we are asked

Who do you work with?

Organisations of every kind: businesses large and small, charities and the public sector, across Bedfordshire, Milton Keynes, Northamptonshire and the wider UK. Our work spans healthcare, recruitment, technology, utilities and renewables, professional services, social impact and consumer brands.

When are you a good fit?

When you have a strong offer, cause or idea that is harder to explain than it should be: repositioning, moving into a more ambitious market, or turning specialist expertise into something people can quickly understand and trust.

Where are you based?

Our head office is at Bedford Heights, Brickhill Drive, Bedford.

Ask us something else

Close to us? See web design in Bedford, Milton Keynes and Northampton, and SEO and marketing in Bedford.

Ways we can help

  1. 01

    Positioning and strategy

    When an offer is difficult to explain, the cause usually sits upstream of the marketing, so we start by defining where you compete and testing it against how your buyers really decide.

  2. 02

    Branding and identity

    A brand has to carry the weight of the business behind it, often in conversations you are not part of, so we build identities that signal the right level of expertise wherever a buyer forms a view of you.

  3. 03

    Digital solutions

    For many buyers the website is where a shortlist is decided, so we plan every page around the questions they arrive with and the doubts that slow them down.

  4. 04

    Marketing and visibility

    More activity rarely moves the numbers that matter, so we set the commercial priorities first and build the content and search programme that keeps you visible across a long sales cycle.

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We work with brands we believe in

  • Conergy
  • HCML
  • Staffline
  • Sava
  • Anderson Group
  • Bush and Co
  • NHS
  • Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority
  • Water2Business
  • Maxell
  • Loop, for Table Tennis England
  • Energy Saving Trust
  • Paris House
  • Tourism Australia
  • kbs Intelligence

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