Our Story

The agency built from
a specific
frustration.

Two founders. One team. No handoffs. No outsourcing. No agencies that disappear after the invoice. Just the work, and the numbers that prove it.

Philina Kendricks — Co-Founder, Digital Minds Solutions
Philina Kendricks
Co-Founder & Analytical Systems Director
Philip Akioye — Co-Founder, Digital Minds Solutions
Philip Akioye
Co-Founder, Trustee & Strategy Director
Churchill Bracknell — Co-Founder, Digital Minds Solutions
Churchill Bracknell
Co-Founder & Technical Director
Why We Exist

In their
own words.

This is the exact story, unedited. The reason DMS exists is the same reason it works for every client.

Digital Minds Solutions came from watching good businesses lose to worse ones. Not because they had a bad product. Not because they weren't working hard enough. Nobody could find them. Nobody trusted what they saw when they did. Nothing on the digital side was pulling in the same direction.
"Website, brand, marketing - all pointing in different directions."
The agencies they hired to fix it were expensive. They were slow. And they were largely absent once the invoice was paid.
We'd lived a version of this ourselves. Building something. Pulling a digital presence together from different corners. Realising the whole system made it harder than it had to be. So we started doing it ourselves instead.
What surprised us wasn't that it worked. It was how fast it worked. Things agencies quoted three months for were done in weeks. Manual processes that ate hours every day were automated in days.
"The moment you watch a business owner get that time back, and then see the leads start coming in, you stop wondering whether this is worth doing."
We started Digital Minds Solutions because the gap was real and we had the skills to close it. That is still the whole reason.
Our Journey

15+ years of building
what actually works.

Every milestone below is a lesson learned. A system refined. A result delivered. This is the record.

2009
The Beginning

Started with one frustration and a blank page.

Churchill Bracknell and Phillip Akin began working with small businesses struggling to be found online. Not as an agency. As problem solvers. The tools were basic. The results were real. The approach stuck.

Web Design Local SEO UK Market
2012
First Scale

Grew from 3 clients to 30. Refined the system.

Word spread fast when results were measurable. We expanded into paid media, email marketing, and CRO. The lesson was simple. Every channel worked better when run as a single connected system.

Paid Media Email Marketing CRO
2015
Going Global

International clients across 5 countries.

From the UK to the UAE, Australia to South Africa, the DMS approach translated across markets because the fundamentals never changed. Clear positioning. Measurable outcomes. No excuses. Barceló Hotel Group became one of our flagship clients.

+1,190% Search Impressions. Barceló Hotel Group
International Hospitality Enterprise SEO
2019
System Thinking

Built the integrated model. Brand, web, marketing, automation as one.

We stopped working on individual channels and started building complete systems. Website, brand, content, paid, SEO, CRM, all designed to work together. Every new client got the full stack from day one. Results doubled.

Full-Stack CRM Automation Brand Systems
2022
AI Integration

Built AI into the infrastructure, not just the pitch.

When AI tools became viable, DMS moved fast. Chatbots live in 5 days. Automated lead qualification. Content pipelines. Proposal generation. Not sold as a feature. Built into every engagement so clients get the output of a 20-person team.

AI chatbot live in 5 days. Full CRM automation in 3 weeks.
AI Systems Automation Lead Qualification
2024
Present Day

Houston, TX headquarters. 9 countries. 100+ projects. Still building.

DMS is now a Houston-based agency with clients across 9 countries and a track record that spans every industry. The mission is unchanged. Build the complete digital system for serious businesses. Stay until the numbers prove it works.

100+Projects Delivered
85+Clients Served
9Countries
8k+Leads Generated
Houston, TX United Kingdom Active Now
No Outsourcing. One Team.

What makes Digital Minds Solutions
different from every other agency.

Most businesses end up hiring five different people for five different digital problems. Those people never talk to each other. We treat everything as one system. Because that is what it is.

01

One Integrated System

Brand, website, marketing, and automation, all built to talk to each other. Not five vendors. One team. Every piece connected from day one.

02

AI Is Infrastructure, Not a Feature

Chatbots that qualify leads overnight. Follow-ups that go out before you open your inbox. Content pipelines that produce without anyone sitting down to write. AI is how the work runs.

03

Speed Other Agencies Quote Months For

Things agencies quote three months for, we deliver in weeks. AI chatbot live in 5 days. Full CRM in 3 weeks. No delays. No runaround. No absent account managers.

04

The Output of a 20-Person Team

Clients get scale without the headcount. Web development, AI systems, design, video, marketing, software. All in-house. All connected. All accountable to the same result.

05

Results Are the Closer

Every section ends with proof. A metric. A case study. A stat. +1,190% search impressions. +800% landing page conversions. +400% qualified leads. Real numbers from real clients.

06

We Stay After Launch

The agencies who disappear after the invoice is paid? Not here. We stay. Tracking, testing, improving until the numbers prove the system is working for your business.

Track Record

15+ years. 9 countries.
Real results across every industry.

Numbers that prove the system works. Not just for one type of business, but across every sector we have touched.

15+
Years Operating
100+
Projects Delivered
85+
Clients Served
8,000+
Leads Generated
Industries served
Luxury Decor & Ecommerce Residential Roofing HealthTech AED / Medical Ecommerce Healthcare Navigation Kitchenware & Bakeware Online Education Youth Gymnastics Calisthenics & Fitness Luxury Tailoring Global Hospitality Travel & Tourism
Markets we've delivered results in
United States United Kingdom UAE Canada Australia South Africa Slovakia Russia Middle East & wherever you are →
How We Work

Four principles that
govern everything we build.

Not a mission statement written for a pitch deck. These are the actual rules we hold every project to.

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Lead with the client's outcome.

"You get X." Not "We do X." Every brief, every headline, every deliverable starts with what changes for the person on the other side of the work.

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Use specific tools and specific timelines.

"Zapier and Make automation live in 5 days" beats "fast automation setup." Vague promises are how bad agencies hide. We put numbers and tools in writing.

Speed is a competitive advantage.

The faster a business owner gets results, the faster they can reinvest and grow. We build systems that produce quickly. And keep producing after we leave.

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No outsourcing. Ever.

Every line of code, every design decision, every automation build is done by the same team you spoke to on the first call. One team. No handoffs. No strangers.

Work With Us

The gap is still real.
We still have the skills
to close it.

Book a free 30-minute discovery call. No commitment. No pitch deck. Just a clear plan for what changes in your business and what it takes to get there.

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