Creative in-housing, tooling and workflow set-up

We set up in-house creative studios.

Tooling, workflows, templates and training, installed inside your studio and built to run without us.

Most teams cut production costs by 60 to 80% once it’s running.

Thirteen years of creative automation for
Australia's flagship airlineA big four supermarket groupA major insurance groupAustralia's largest loyalty programA national energy retailer
What we set up

Build it. Run it. Back it up.

We build the system, train your designers on it, and stay on call for QA and overflow.

Build it

The engine and the assets that feed it

Creative automation

Resizing and versioning engines that run inside your Adobe stack.

Template set-up

Masters engineered for automation, built against your real site specs.

AI animation

Node based motion workflows. Roughly half the production time on character work.

Agentic workflows

Agents, skills and brand guardians wired into the tools you already use.

Run it

So your team owns it, not us

Toolkits

The interface your designers use to run a job themselves.

Playbooks

Your brand rules and workflows written down, so the system outlives whoever built it.

Training

Tutorials and sessions until your designers can build new templates without us.

Maintenance

When a spec or a platform changes, we update the templates.

Back it up

For the weeks that don't go to plan

QA support

A second set of expert eyes on critical output.

Overflow support

Extra hands when campaign volume spikes, instead of a standing retainer.

The problem

The volume exploded. The model didn’t move.

The world’s best brands are bringing creative in house. Not because agencies stopped being useful, but because every campaign now needs hundreds of versions across DOOH, social and retail media.

Paying agency rates for resizing is no longer defensible.

We spent thirteen years inside that problem, delivering creative automation and high craft work for some of Australia’s largest brands. We watched good in house teams drown in adaptation while the work that builds brands sat waiting.

The numbers

Where the 60 to 80% comes from

Four separate savings, stacked. Which ones matter most depends on how your studio runs today.

01

Automated versioning

Resizing generated by rules, not rebuilt by hand. On high volume campaigns this is most of the saving.

02

Templates and reuse

Motion and static templates that delivered 25 to 50% efficiencies at enterprise scale, before automation was switched on.

03

In house running costs

Your team runs the engine. No agency margin on volume work, no handoffs, no waiting in someone else's queue.

04

Overflow, not retainers

Specialist support only when campaigns spike, instead of paying for capacity you don't use.

The range is wide because studios differ. We model yours against your real specs in the first conversation.

13

years of creative automation and high craft delivery

5,000+

template variations delivered for Australia's biggest brands

25-50%

cost efficiencies at large corporates automating motion

up to 80%

time saved versioning rules based assets at volume

Why now

Marketing is moving from making to directing

Three things are happening at once. Together they change what a marketing team is for.

01  AUTOMATION

Routine production is absorbed by systems

Work that used to be billed by the hour is becoming a process that runs itself.

02  GENERATIVE AI

The cost of variation collapses

Making more versions is no longer the constraint. Volume stops being the bottleneck.

03  AGENTIC

Whole workflows, not single tasks

Agents take a brief, run the steps, check the output and hand it on.

What stays scarce is judgement, taste, and the quality of the instruction given to the system.

That is the argument for building this inside your own team. The scarce part was never the resizing. It was the people who know what good looks like.

We build capability in your house. Not a dependency on ours.
Kim VerbruggheManaging Director, Magic Trik
Where you start

Start where it pays back fastest

Four levels of automation. Most teams get their fastest payback at level three, not level four.

01

Dynamic creative

Trigger based asset builder: right copy, right creative, per segment and channel.

02

Templated drag and drop

Prebuilt static and motion templates matched to the media plan. Designers version at speed.

MOST START HERE03

Automated versioning plus QA

Pre-set rules run every version. A designer QAs and approves.

04

GenAI and agentic

Resizing agents and AI workflows inside your stack. A choice for later, not a starting point.

We would rather prove one workflow than sell you four.

How it works

Quick wins first, then you own it

Weeks, not months. Every stage ends with something you can measure.

1

Pilot

One workflow, a handful of templates, built against your real specs.

2

Prove

Side by side QA with your team. Savings you can measure, not model.

3

Scale

More templates, more channels, agents where they earn their place.

4

Own it

Training, playbooks and tutorials, until your studio runs it without us.

HumanYour designer picks the template, loads the spec, drops the masters.AutomatedEvery variation builds itself, then pings the designer when it’s ready.HumanFinal QA and sign off stays with your designer. Always.

Human at the start, human at the end, automation in the middle. That is the whole design principle.

The craft guarantee

Automation multiplies whatever you feed it

So the master gets checked before it becomes three hundred placements. A brand guardian agent reviews every output against your rules.

Tone of voice

Every line scored against your voice and copy guidelines.

Safe zones and clear space

Logos, text and key art inside every placement's safe area.

Distinctive brand assets

Colour, type and lock-ups used right, on every size.

Effectiveness

Eight weighted agents, tuned to your objective and category.

Powered by Upshot, our creative effectiveness engine. Standalone, or wired into your workflow.

Don’t take our word for it

On working with the team behind Magic Trik

A reliable partner for over ten years. Incredible with craft, fast to respond, and always finding solutions, delivering high quality work year after year. Not just a trusted supplier, but an extension of our team.
Head of Marketing CapabilityAustralia's flagship airline
They have consistently impressed us with their craft, speed and future focused approach, blending creativity with cutting edge technology. Their ability to deliver at pace keeps us at the forefront of innovation.
Chief Marketing OfficerA big four supermarket group
The boring, important part

You probably don’t need GenAI for this

Most versioning is rules based placement of creative, not generation of it. Automation is cheaper, more predictable, and far easier to get through security review.

Nothing generative required

Every pixel comes from your master assets and your brand rules. GenAI stays an option, never a dependency.

Runs in the stack you have

Delivered inside Adobe. New tools only where they pass your technology team's vetting.

Your machines, if you prefer

Render locally on your designers' hardware. Nothing has to leave the building.

And for the hard stuff

Some tricks still take a master

Magic Trik handles the work that makes sense to bring in house: high volume, rules based, repeatable. The complex, high risk, high craft work stays with our sister agency SLIK, which does the hard stuff that can’t be automated.

Best of human, best of machine. Use one, or use both.

SLIK covers
Innovation  research, CX strategy, prototyping, emerging tech
Craft  brand, campaigns, film, motion, 3D, design systems
Activation  experiences, connected products, AR and VR, dynamic OOH

Let’s find your 60 to 80%.

Bring your volumes and your media plan. We will model the saving against your real specs, and tell you if it isn’t worth doing.

Book a savings session

Tell us how your studio runs today. We’ll come back within one business day.

No pitch deck. If it isn’t worth doing, we’ll tell you.
Speak to
Kim Verbrugghe, Managing Director
Email
kim@slik.com.au
Phone
0450 217 639
Studio
Level 1, 91 Campbell St, Surry Hills