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1ing ideas into the world and seeing whether anyone responds.",cta:{label:"Explore GoodShip* Activations",to:"/community"},children:[e.jsx("p",{children:"GoodShip* itself is part of the creative experiment. The name. The asterisk. The language. The ship* jokes. The Activations. The events. The way different ideas connect."}),e.jsx("p",{children:"We use GoodShip* as somewhere to test:"})]}),e.jsxs(i,{heading:"We don’t need to replace your agency.",tone:"surface",pullQuote:"The strongest idea matters more than whose logo sits on the credits.",children:[e.jsx("p",{children:"GoodShip* can work alongside:"}),e.jsx("ul",{className:"flex flex-wrap gap-2",children:g.map(t=>e.jsx("li",{className:"rounded-full border border-border px-3 py-1 text-sm",children:t},t))}),e.jsx("p",{children:"Sometimes our most useful role is creating the initial idea, sharpening the proposition, challenging the brief, bringing disciplines together, providing creative direction or filling a temporary capability gap."}),e.jsx("p",{children:"If another specialist is better placed to produce a particular part of the work, we’ll say so."})]}),e.jsx(W,{heading:"Creative work should create a response.",intro:e.jsx("p",{children:"Depending on the project, that response could be:"}),items:u}),e.jsx(f,{heading:"Pretty isn’t a strategy.",intro:e.jsx("p",{children:"Creativity is how an idea becomes something people can understand and respond to — which means some familiar agency habits aren’t much use."}),items:y}),e.jsxs(i,{heading:"Good ideas travel.",tone:"background",pullQuote:"Liverpool shapes how we think. It doesn’t define where the work can happen.",children:[e.jsx("p",{children:"GoodShip* is based in Liverpool and works across the UK and internationally."}),e.jsx("p",{children:"Creative collaboration can happen in person, remotely, through workshops, alongside distributed teams and around live projects and events."})]}),e.jsx(G,{heading:"Questions we often get.",items:v}),e.jsx(w,{heading:"Related stories & insights",items:[{title:"Ideas, brand & storytelling",body:"Writing on creativity, brand, participation and making complicated ideas easier to care about.",to:"/stories"},{title:"Creativity with AI",body:"How we use AI for research, exploration and prototyping while keeping human judgement central.",to:"/activations/ai-activator"},{title:"Strategy behind the creative",body:"How creative work connects to consultancy, proposition development and commercial thinking.",to:"/what-we-do/consultancy"}]}),e.jsxs(j,{heading:"What are you trying to make people care about?",primary:{label:"Tell us what you're creating",to:"/contact"},secondary:{label:"See our impact",to:"/impact/case-studies"},children:[e.jsx("p",{children:"A new idea. A product. A programme. A cause."}),e.jsx("p",{children:"A business. A community. An event."}),e.jsx("p",{children:"Something people don’t understand yet."}),e.jsx("p",{children:"Something people aren’t paying enough attention to."}),e.jsx("p",{children:"Or something with the potential to feel much more interesting than it does today."}),e.jsx("p",{className:"pt-4 text-background",children:"Start with the idea. We’ll help work out what it could become."})]})]})}export{z as component};