Stop renting influence. Start building it.
Ardent is a Social Innovation Studio. We use our expert knowledge of social & creators to build the world's most influential communities.
The Playbook Is Outdated: Pay Creators > Buy Reach > Repeat. There's a better way, and it starts with Communities
The brands who are innovating for the future of social are focused on how they build advocacy amongst their community. Organic, always-on influence.
We call it Community Influence — and it's the most underused force in social. Building it is the only thing we do.
Community Influence isn't luck. It's a method.
Our competitors lead with "the what", we listen to communitites to learn "the why".
Read it
We drill into the social activity actually creating influence in your category to learn — what works & what doesn't.
ModAI BenchmarkMake it
Our network of creative leaders build activations rooted in community interest.
Strategy & creativeRun it
Always-on community management — growing advocates, rewarding champions, defusing agitators.
ModAI LiveProve it
Everything benchmarked against your sector, not the wider industry. Proof that influence is compounding.
ModAI BenchmarkMost agencies have opinions about community. We built the technology to read it.
ModAI is our proprietary platform for understanding, growing and measuring Community Influence. It's why our strategy runs on evidence — and why nothing in your community gets missed.
Drills into the social activity creating real influence across your category. We see what works before we spend a penny making it.
Real-time community management that means we never miss a moment — advocacy, champions, and agitators handled the second they appear.
Everything ladders to one outcome: a community that grows your brand.
Community Strategy & Management
The evidence-led plan and the always-on running of it — strategy, content calendars and day-to-day community management in one.
Social-first creative & content
Native to the platform and the people.
Creator Collaborations
Creators and partners chosen to serve your community, not rent its attention — brought in to deepen belonging, not borrow reach.
Measurement & reporting
Benchmarked, transparent, relentless.
We're not theorising about community. We're documenting it.
Who's actually building community on social — and who's just buying reach.
Every quarter we use ModAI to benchmark the brands getting Community Influence right, rank what's working, and call out what isn't.
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You'll work with the people who actually know this.
No account layers, no hand-offs. The experts who build your community are the ones who run it.
Award-winning Creative & Strategist. Client experience includes Samsung, Sony, Warner Bros & Cash App
Over a decade in Social & Creator Strategy, Dom has led accounts including Gillette, Samsung, PepsiCo & JBL
"An expert in PR & Creator Parnterships, Jess has partnered with LEON, Waitrose & VIVERA"
Unmatched experience with both Brands & Agencies, Alisha has launched campaigns involving Maura Higgins & Tasha Ghouri
Ready to do your best work yet?
Tell us the brand and the ambition. We'll show you what ModAI sees in your community — and how we'd build the influence to grow it.
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