In 2017, Zach and I merged our freelance graphic design work into a single company called BigIronBucket. With backgrounds in marketing and production, we repeatedly encountered the same pattern: businesses needed steady, reliable design support, but agencies were structured for big-ticket projects, not day-to-day execution. Our motto was simple and stays true today: We’re easy to work with, and we get things done.

That approach served us well for several years, but it eventually became clear that we had grown beyond the boundaries of pure design. Years spent managing websites, producing content, building connected CRM workflows, and implementing analytics transformed our company into something broader. Without fully realizing it at the time, we had become operators, strategists, and systems-minded marketers.

When Space Age launched, it didn’t feel like a pivot so much as an evolution. The brand formalized what we were already doing behind the scenes: aligning marketing, sales, and operations into a cohesive engine, and treating funnels, data, and internal process as intentional infrastructure, not afterthoughts. Becoming a fractional Marketing Operations partner for B2B organizations felt like the natural next chapter.

The impact confirmed the direction. Cleaner systems meant sharper execution. Better alignment meant more measurable growth. Strategy finally had a seat at the same table as implementation. What began as a design partnership had matured into a different kind of agency model, one built for consistency, precision, and accountability. That’s the work Space Age continues today.