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Best LinkedIn Agencies for Agencies and Consultancies in 2026
Agencies and consultancies sell expertise, which makes LinkedIn the obvious channel and the hardest one to find time for. Five options compared, with four published case studies in the sector.
By Niall Ratcliffe, Co-founder, noticed. · 12 min read
Published October 23, 2026
Key takeaways
- You sell judgement, which is nearly impossible to evidence in a proposal and very easy to evidence in a hundred posts. By the time a prospect enquires they have already decided you know what you are doing.
- The founder is the brand whether you like it or not. Posts from a named person out-reach the agency page by a wide margin and carry credibility the page structurally cannot.
- The real constraint is never knowledge, it is that client work always wins. You are not buying capability you lack, you are buying the fact that it still happens in month seven.
- Flowd, a growth agency themselves, closed a £12,000 retainer in five weeks. Beard & Bowler signed $350,000 of attributable revenue in twelve months.
- If you run LinkedIn services yourself we are a competitor and probably the wrong hire. We will say so on the first call rather than taking the meeting.
5 LinkedIn agencies at a glance
| # | Agency | Best for | Published pricing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | noticed. | agencies and consultancies selling expertise | Not published |
| 2 | Gripped | B2B SaaS demand generation | £5K-£15K/mo |
| 3 | Linkedist | LinkedIn audits and workshops | Not published |
| 4 | Cleverly | high-volume outbound at scale | Not published |
| 5 | Stop The Scroll | US B2B paid and organic together | From $2,950/mo |
Agencies are an awkward client. You already know how marketing works, so the usual tactics get seen through immediately, and the genuine obstacle is almost never knowledge. It is that nobody has time to market the marketers.
noticed. ranks first here on four published case studies in the sector, including $350,000 of attributable revenue for Beard & Bowler and a £12,000 retainer signed in five weeks for Flowd, a growth agency themselves.
Why LinkedIn suits professional services unusually well
You sell expertise. LinkedIn is the only platform where demonstrating expertise in public is the expected behaviour rather than an interruption.
More specifically, the thing you sell is judgement, and judgement is almost impossible to evidence in a proposal. It is very easy to evidence in a hundred posts where you explain how you think about problems a prospect recognises. By the time they enquire they have already decided you know what you are doing, which changes the entire shape of the sales conversation.
The founder is the brand, whether you like it or not
In professional services the buyer is choosing people, not a company. A post from the founder will out-reach the agency page by a wide margin, and it carries credibility the page structurally cannot.
This is uncomfortable for founders who would rather build something bigger than themselves. The practical answer is to use the founder profile to earn attention and the company page to show the business behind it, rather than choosing one.
The constraint nobody admits
Every agency knows what it should be doing on LinkedIn. Almost none does it, for one reason: client work always wins.
Your own marketing is the first thing dropped in a busy month, and busy months are most of them. The result is an agency that produces excellent work for clients and has a LinkedIn presence that stopped eleven weeks ago.
If you are hiring an agency for this, you are not buying capability you lack. You are buying the fact that it still happens in month seven. That is worth paying for, but it is worth being clear-eyed about what you are actually purchasing.
What the results look like
Flowd is the most instructive, because they are a growth and prospecting agency themselves. They could start conversations; what they had no system for was taking someone from first seeing them to being ready to buy. Interest arrived and then cooled.
Content that kept them visible to the studios they wanted, wired into a structured nurture sequence behind it, closed a £12,000 monthly retainer within five weeks, with exactly the profile of client they had been targeting.
Beard & Bowler took longer and went further: $350,000 of attributable revenue within twelve months, on the back of 800,000 LinkedIn impressions and 9,000 followers grown on the founder's account.
One thing worth saying plainly
We are an agency selling to agencies, which makes us a competitor to some of you. If you run LinkedIn services yourself, hiring us is probably the wrong call and we will say so on the first call rather than taking the meeting.
It also means our own LinkedIn is the demonstration of the product. If it were not working, you would be able to tell, which is a fair test and not one most agencies in this category would survive.
For the wider category see the main shortlist, and if the bottleneck is outbound rather than visibility, the outreach shortlist.
How we ranked these agencies
- Published agency-sector work
- Named agency or consultancy clients with numbers. Most agencies serving agencies cannot show one.
- Founder-led capability
- In professional services the founder is the brand. An agency that only runs company pages is doing the easier half.
- Commercial outcomes
- Retainers signed and pipeline attributed, rather than followers gained.
- Time cost to you
- How much of your team's time the process requires. This is the binding constraint for every agency client.
- Their own LinkedIn
- Whether the agency's own presence demonstrates what they are selling. In this sector it is a fair test.
- What they refuse to do
- Whether the agency states a boundary, including whether they are a competitor to you.
Who this list is for
Agencies, consultancies and professional services firms selling expertise on retainer. If you sell a product rather than people's time, the economics are different and the pillar shortlist is the better page.
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The best LinkedIn agencies: in-depth review
1. noticed., best for agencies and consultancies selling expertise
Agencies are a peculiar client because they already know how marketing works, which means the usual tactics get seen through immediately and the real obstacle is that nobody has time to do their own.
Four published case studies in this sector. Beard & Bowler signed $350,000 of attributable revenue in twelve months. Flowd, a growth agency themselves, closed a £12,000 monthly retainer within five weeks. WHAM generated more than 3,600 qualified leads across three campaigns.
We are also an agency selling to agencies, which means our own LinkedIn is the demonstration. If it were not working you would be able to tell.
Named results
- Beard & Bowler: $350,000 attributable revenue in twelve months
- Flowd: a £12,000 monthly retainer signed within five weeks
- WHAM: 3,600+ qualified leads across three campaigns in six months
- Simple Scaling: 164 qualified leads and £656K attributed pipeline
Best suited for
Agencies, consultancies and professional services firms selling expertise on a retainer, where the founder is the brand and the obstacle is that nobody has time to market the marketers.
Where it falls short
We refuse to work outside LinkedIn. No Meta, no Google Ads, no SEO. We are also a competitor to some agencies, which is a legitimate reason not to hire us and we will not pretend otherwise. No published rate card.
Sources: noticed.co case studies · noticed.co services
2. Gripped, best for B2B SaaS demand generation
A London agency covering six channels for B2B SaaS and tech businesses above about £2m ARR. The breadth is the proposition: search, social, SEO, GEO and website handled by one supplier rather than four.
Pricing is published, which puts them among the more transparent operators: £5,000 to £15,000 a month on rolling contracts with three months notice. Their strongest published figure is £1.3m of new pipeline created in one quarter.
Named results
- £1.3m in new pipeline created in one quarter from paid search and social
- 252% increase in opportunity value from Google Search Ads
- 108% year-on-year increase in sales opportunities
Best suited for
B2B SaaS companies past £2m ARR who want one agency covering search, social and website rather than a LinkedIn specialist.
Where it falls short
LinkedIn is one channel among six. If LinkedIn is where your buyers are and you want it run properly, you are buying a share of attention rather than a specialism. Scope is restricted to SaaS, AI and tech.
Sources: gripped.io homepage · gripped.io pricing
3. Linkedist, best for LinkedIn audits and workshops
Linkedist is a LinkedIn-only agency running eight service lines: content, advertising, personal branding, audits, workshops, sales integration, and more recently ChatGPT Ads and generative engine optimisation. The spread is wide for an agency of its size.
Published case studies run to follower counts, post volumes and impressions. Detra Solar is the most detailed: 2,426 followers and 203,524 impressions across 75 posts over eighteen months.
Named results
- Detra Solar: 2,426+ followers and 203,524 impressions across 75 posts in 18 months
- CloudVisor: 2,000+ followers, 225 posts and 10 ad campaigns over two years
- WhiteBridge.ai: 1,850+ followers and 34,963 impressions
Best suited for
Companies that want a LinkedIn audit or an internal workshop before committing to a retainer. The breadth of service lines suits a business still deciding what it needs.
Where it falls short
Published results are follower counts, post volumes and impressions rather than pipeline, revenue or meetings. No pricing is published, and the site does not state where the agency is based.
Sources: linkedist.com case studies · linkedist.com services
4. Cleverly, best for high-volume outbound at scale
An outbound shop in Los Angeles covering four channels at once: LinkedIn messaging, cold email, cold calling and outsourced sales development. Reps are dedicated and the operating model is built for throughput rather than bespoke work.
Their figures are reported across the whole client base rather than per engagement: 224,700 leads generated, $312M of pipeline, and 1,000 active clients.
Named results
- 224,700 leads generated across the client base
- $312M pipeline and $51.2M revenue, cumulative
- 1,000 active clients and 1,000+ five-star reviews claimed
Best suited for
Companies that want outbound volume across several channels at once and are comfortable with an agency operating at scale rather than bespoke.
Where it falls short
Outbound only. Cleverly does not offer LinkedIn content or organic presence, so the profile a prospect lands on after receiving a message is your problem rather than theirs. No pricing is published.
Sources: cleverly.co homepage · cleverly.co services
5. Stop The Scroll, best for US B2B paid and organic together
Stop The Scroll handles both sides of LinkedIn, paid and organic, for US B2B companies. Pricing is public: from $2,950 a month, $3,950 minimum contract.
Their published agency ranking uses seven weighted criteria and is more rigorous than most in this space, with the caveat that they rank themselves first on it and issue their own score.
Named results
- Published pricing from $2,950/month, $3,950/month contract minimum
- Seven weighted ranking criteria published openly
Best suited for
US-based B2B companies wanting paid and organic LinkedIn handled together, with a clear published price before the first call.
Where it falls short
US-based, which matters for timezone overlap and market knowledge if your buyers are in the UK or Europe. Published client results are thin relative to the published methodology.
Sources: stopthescroll.io pricing · stopthescroll.io agency ranking
Side-by-side: pricing and engagement model
| Agency | Published pricing | Model |
|---|---|---|
| noticed. | Not published | Retainer |
| Gripped | £5K-£15K/mo | Rolling contract, 3 months notice |
| Linkedist | Not published | Not published |
| Cleverly | Not published | Not published |
| Stop The Scroll | From $2,950/mo | Retainer, $3,950/mo minimum |
Which option fits your situation
| If you are… | The real constraint | Pick |
|---|---|---|
| A consultancy where the founder is the brand | No time to publish consistently | noticed. |
| An agency wanting inbound rather than referrals | Referrals have plateaued | noticed. |
| A B2B SaaS or tech consultancy | You need search and social together | Gripped |
| Wanting a workshop to upskill internally | The capability should stay in house | Linkedist |
| Needing outbound volume quickly | Not enough conversations at all | Cleverly |
| US-based, paid and organic | Two suppliers doing half a job | Stop The Scroll |
What results actually look like
| Client | Result | What the metric means |
|---|---|---|
| Beard & Bowler | $350K | Attributable revenue signed within twelve months, on 800K+ LinkedIn impressions. |
| WHAM | 3,600+ | Qualified leads across three campaigns in six months. |
| Flowd | £12K | A monthly retainer signed within five weeks of the system going live. |
| Simple Scaling | £656K | Attributed pipeline from 164 qualified leads. |
Frequently asked questions
- Should an agency outsource its own LinkedIn?
- Often yes, and not because of a capability gap. Agencies know what to do; what they lack is the guarantee it still happens in a busy month. That consistency is the thing actually being purchased.
- Should the founder or the agency page post?
- The founder, primarily. In professional services the buyer is choosing people rather than a company, and posts from a named person reach considerably further. The page shows the business behind the person.
- How does LinkedIn generate inbound for a consultancy?
- By demonstrating judgement in public repeatedly. A prospect who has read fifty of your posts on problems they recognise arrives at the enquiry already convinced, which changes the shape of the sales conversation entirely.
- How long before an agency sees results from LinkedIn?
- Conversations move in weeks. Commercial outcomes follow your cycle: Flowd signed a £12,000 retainer within five weeks, while Beard & Bowler's $350,000 built over twelve months.
- What should a consultancy post about?
- How you think about problems your clients recognise, including the trade-offs and the things you got wrong. Demonstrating judgement beats demonstrating credentials, because credentials are on everyone's website.
- Is it a conflict to hire an agency that competes with you?
- It can be. If you sell LinkedIn services yourself then yes, and we would tell you so. If you sell something adjacent, it usually is not, but it is a fair question to ask directly before any proposal.
- How much time does this take from our team?
- Expect thirty to sixty minutes a month per person being written for. An agency that asks for none of your time is producing content from a brief, and in professional services that reads exactly as it was made.
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About the author
Niall Ratcliffe, Co-founder, noticed.
Niall co-founded noticed. in 2022 and has since run LinkedIn content, outreach and strategy programmes for more than 200 B2B companies, from the NHS to Hutchinson Engineering.
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