SHELTR.
Creative Teams Built for Speed, Scale, and AI.
SHELTR is a platform that builds curated creative teams designed for speed, scale, and AI-ready workflows—without sacrificing quality or craft.
In 2018, we started connecting brands and agencies with curated talent to solve marketing and advertising challenges via scaled agency teams. And we haven’t stopped.
We’ve done it for Nike, Ford, Amazon, and many other Fortune 500 Brands. We’ve also worked with several global, regional, and local ad agencies.
SHELTR builds optimized AI-ready creative with high-performance teams. AI doesn’t replace anything for us. All it does is redefine how fast, flexible, and inventive our teams can be.
We can build a team in 48 hours from our curated network of top-tier freelancers—also known as THE48./the-
Need creative bench support? Easy.
Need a full-service ad agency? Done.
Need to learn how to create so your ideas can be found? Hello.
Basically, all you need is SHELTR.
When to seek SHELTR
+ When you’re looking for a talented roster of Freelance Designers, Writers, Creative Directors, Account Leads, and Strategists who all have AI chops.
+ When you need brand safety experts to create “AI governance playbooks” for marketing teams.
+ When you aren’t sure why your site isn’t getting seen.
+ When you want to write content that can be found by AI.
+ When your Brand feels stale and needs a reboot.
+ When your internal marketing or creative team is understaffed, overworked, and/or needs a mental health break.
+ When you want killer ideas and world-class execution that gets found. Fast.
+ When you need a creative consultancy that can build a high-caliber agency team that will take your brand to the next level.
Capabilities
Brand campaign development // Brand Identity // Copywriting // Strategy // Design Thinking // Art Direction // Package Design// Website Design // UI Design // UX Design // Social Content // Photography // AI-augmented campaign prototypes // SEO-AEO-AIO-GEO-EEAT expertise
Hayden Gilbert
Founder & Chief Creative Officer
Hayden Gilbert is the Founder & Chief Creative Officer at SHELTR. Hayden started SHELTR in 2018 after spending 20 years as a Writer and Creative Director at various ad agencies and as a VP/ECD leading in-house creative teams. His cumulative experience revealed a need for a more scalable model—one that brings creative and strategic talent together in a way that scales to fit our client’s scope, budget, and timeline. Hayden’s teams have been internationally recognized for their award-winning work. He is also a Consultant and Board Advisor for global corporations, universities, and startups—where he helps educate leaders on how to use creativity and AI strategy to solve organizational problems at scale.
Find SHELTR.
hayden@wearesheltr.com
Austin + Anywhere
+1 5128393662