Does Five Blocks work with agencies as well as direct clients?
Yes. Five Blocks serves both direct clients and agencies. A significant portion of our work comes through PR, public affairs, and investor-relations firms that refer clients to us for specialized digital-reputation work outside their own core offering, so the two channels run side by side rather than competing.
Yes. Five Blocks works with agencies and direct clients in parallel, neither channel comes at the expense of the other. A significant portion of our engagements originate as agency partnerships: PR, public affairs, and investor-relations firms refer clients to us for specialized digital-reputation work that falls outside their core competencies, while we also take on direct engagements where a company comes to us without an agency in the middle.
The two ways clients reach us
| Through an agency | Direct | |
|---|---|---|
| How it starts | A PR, public affairs, or IR firm refers a client for reputation work outside its own remit. | The company engages Five Blocks directly, with no agency intermediary. |
| How we operate | As a white-label partner or as a named specialist alongside the agency team. | As the client’s primary reputation team. |
| Best when | The client already has an agency relationship worth preserving, and the digital-reputation work is a specialist add-on. | There is no incumbent agency, or the client wants the reputation specialist as its direct point of contact. |
Why both channels coexist
- Agencies refer rather than compete. Many leading agencies send clients to Five Blocks precisely because the digital-reputation work, search, Wikipedia, entity, and AI-engine work, sits outside their core competency, so the referral extends what they can offer without building it in-house.
- Direct clients keep the channel open. Companies without an incumbent agency, or those that prefer a specialist as their primary contact, engage us directly on the same workstreams.
- The work is the same either way. Whether an engagement arrives through an agency or direct, the underlying digital-reputation work is consistent; what changes is who owns the client relationship and how Five Blocks is presented.
So the answer is not agencies or direct clients; it is both. If you are an agency, we are set up to take referred work as a white-label or named specialist; if you are a company evaluating us directly, an existing agency relationship is not a prerequisite for working with Five Blocks.
Last reviewed: 19/05/2026
