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Two founders. One rule: results, not reports.

Independent Agency started because too many businesses in Lucknow were paying for "marketing" that never showed up in their revenue. We built the agency we wished existed.

What we believe

Four things we never compromise on.

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Data over opinion
Every decision is backed by a number, not a hunch or a trend.
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Revenue over reach
We report on leads and rupees โ€” vanity metrics don't pay your bills.
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Radical transparency
You see the same dashboards we do โ€” no black boxes, ever.
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Speed of a startup
Decisions and changes ship in days, not committee cycles.
Leadership

Meet the founders.

Two people, two very different obsessions โ€” growth and craft โ€” who happen to agree on everything that actually matters.

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Vinit Shukla
Co-Founder ยท Growth & Strategy
Vinit leads client strategy and performance marketing at Independent Agency. He started managing ad accounts in college, learning the hard way โ€” burning his own small budgets on Facebook ads before he ever managed a client's rupee. That early experience of watching money disappear with nothing to show for it is exactly why he's obsessive about attribution today: every campaign has to explain itself in numbers, not adjectives.

Before co-founding Independent Agency, he spent time auditing marketing spend for local businesses across Lucknow and noticed the same pattern everywhere โ€” agencies charging retainers for "brand awareness" while owners couldn't tell you their actual cost per customer. That gap became the founding thesis for this agency: if you can't measure it, you shouldn't be billing for it.

Vinit now leads the discovery and strategy phase for every new client, personally reviewing account structures before a single rupee of ad spend goes live, and stays hands-on with the highest-spend accounts throughout the engagement.
"If a campaign can't tell you why it worked, it wasn't strategy โ€” it was luck."
Meta AdsGoogle AdsGrowth StrategyAttribution & AnalyticsReal Estate Marketing
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Sudhanshu Verma
Co-Founder ยท Design & Technology
Sudhanshu leads branding, web development and the technical backbone that makes every campaign trackable. He came from a product design background, building interfaces for early-stage startups before realising most small businesses in Tier-2 India were being sold websites that looked fine in a pitch deck and converted nobody in real life.

His approach treats a website the same way a product team treats an app โ€” as something that should be measured, tested and iterated, not delivered once and forgotten. He personally reviews every site's Core Web Vitals, tracking setup and mobile experience before it ships, because a beautiful homepage that loads slowly on a โ‚น10,000 Android phone is a beautiful homepage nobody in Lucknow will ever see load.

Sudhanshu also owns the technical SEO and schema architecture behind every client site โ€” the unglamorous plumbing work that determines whether Google (and increasingly, AI search tools) can actually understand and recommend a business.
"A beautiful website that doesn't convert is just expensive art."
Web DevelopmentBrandingUI/UXTechnical SEOCore Web Vitals
Our journey

How we got here.

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2022
Founded in Lucknow
Started with two clients and a shared conviction that marketing should be measurable.
2023
First real estate breakthrough
Delivered 1,000+ qualified leads for a local developer, proving the model at scale.
2024
Expanded into SEO & web development
Brought design and technical SEO in-house to control the full funnel end to end.
2025
36+ businesses, 3,157+ leads
Grew across real estate, solar, D2C, healthcare and education, remote-first across India.
2026
A new chapter
Rebuilding our own digital presence to match the standard we hold our clients to.

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