Department of acts, not ads

World domination, one act at a time.

We help leadership teams turn a strategy into what people actually do on Monday. A small bench of strategists, facilitators and makers, working side by side with AI agents.

AI makes the plan cheap. Making it land is the hard part.

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Yes, it's a real company.
The name stuck.
The bench at work around a long table in an industrial workshop space
Portfolios

What the ministry takes on.

One story or one session? That runs through Polle directly. polledemaagt.com (external site)

Trajectories3 to 6 months

From a strategy on paper to a team that runs it.

The story, the plan on one page, the working sessions, and the follow-up until it holds. Strategy and people development, side by side.

For moments like a new CEO's first 100 days, a merger that has to become one company, or a strategy that never left the boardroom.

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Intelligence briefingsEvery quarter

Movements.

Briefs on where companies move next, for the people who have to decide what theirs does.

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Files opened for, among others
The names we can mention.
KLM
Rituals
NS
Heineken
Nike
Oracle Red Bull Racing
LEGO
IKEA
Toyota
Henkel
RBFA
citizenM
Selected work

Case files.

No client names, no details that aren't ours to share. Their work, our part in it, and what happened next.

Always with the client's own team.
Since 2011 · Aviation, digital

An airline that learned to talk back.

The question

How does a classic flag carrier become a brand people want to follow, talk to and share, not just book?

Our part

Helped shape the digital strategy, co-created campaigns that won dozens of awards (among them Webbys, Effies and Cannes Lions) and, above all, helped build the largest social media team in the world.

What changed, together

A reputation as one of the leading digital and innovation companies in the world.

2020 · Rail, during the pandemic

A railway in a pandemic.

The question

Trains running at less than a tenth of normal. How do you keep the country moving safely now, and bring travellers back later?

Our part

Helped leadership tell one story through the crisis, and built the case for a pilot with pre-registered trips and a long-term plan to spread travellers over the day and the week.

What changed, together

Spreading travel became a lasting board theme, with regional agreements between schools, employers and the railway.

2024 · Motorsport, partnerships

A hundred partners, one team.

The question

One of the biggest racing teams in the world works with more than a hundred partners. How do you get more and better communication, content and activations out of all of them, together?

Our part

Facilitated the discussion with the team and co-wrote the partnership strategy and the new way of working with partners.

What changed, together

Measurably more efficient: more done with a smaller team, with less stress and more predictability.

How we work

Four steps. Agents do the legwork,
people do the hard part.

Meet Frenkie.
The agents live here.
Frenkie: a Mac mini with a small silver footballer figure on top
1

A first conversation.

We sharpen the question together, before anything gets made.

Agents

Scan hundreds of sources overnight, cluster what they find, flag what's new.

People

Pick the three signals that matter for this company, and say why. The sharpest end up in Movements (external site).

2

Something to react to, fast.

A first storyline, a rough page or a prototype within days. Speed beats polish in round one.

Agents

Draft ten versions of the page, build a prototype you can click or try.

People

Choose one, defend it, and put it in front of real people.

3

Built with your team.

Working sessions around the table. The team builds it, we keep it sharp.

Agents

Prepare materials, transcribe the room, sort every sticky note by theme.

People

Run the room. Read the silences. Ask the question nobody wants asked.

4

Landed and kept moving.

Until the people it touches can explain it themselves.

Agents

Draft the story per audience, track the key results, spot what's slipping.

People

Talk to every team it touches. Have the hard conversation when something slips.

The agents never present. That part is ours.
Polle de Maagt
The cabinet

One prime minister.
Specialists by invitation.

Polle de Maagt (external site) leads every file, from the first question to the last session. Facilitators, designers and researchers join when the question needs them. Their names stay off this page. You meet them before anything starts.

Discretion is part of the job.
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One question, one conversation.

Most work starts with Polle and a question that needs sharpening. The bench joins when the question gets bigger.

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A first call of 30 minutes. A one-page proposal within a week.