04 / About

A strategy
and creative practice.

We partner with organisations from boardroom to delivery, often over many years. Intelligence-led, we combine the capabilities of a strategy consultancy, a creative studio, a marketing partner, and an embedded delivery team.

We sit alongside our partners and build with them. Strategy decides what is true. Creative makes it real. We do both.

Our story.

From a band to a business
1990s

The band

Andrew Casey and Olaf O’Moore meet at school. At sixteen they start a band and run it like a business. Making music, making money, making funky. They don’t know it yet, but they’re learning the lesson everything else gets built on: make something that matters, and figure the rest out as you go.

2007

Ecocabs

We launch cycle taxis in the heart of Dublin. A mad idea. Pedal-powered transport in a city built for cars. People thought we were crazy, then brands saw the vision and sponsored the bikes. Rides were free. Drivers became brand ambassadors. We were making brand experiences before we had the words for it.

2008

Taking it to the streets

We brought the experiences to where culture was actually happening. Festivals, concerts, street corners. Brands meeting real people in real moments. The bikes were the conversation starter, woven into the fabric of the city.

2009

Funked Up Fixies

Led by Olaf, we launch a lifestyle brand. Build your own bike, choose your colours, millions of combinations. The thesis: people deserve to show their uniqueness, not squeeze into someone else’s mould. Some bets paid off, some didn’t. We learned from both.

2014

Ecocabs becomes Headcase

We’d built something, tested it, broken it, rebuilt it, and finally understood what we were really good at: creating work that shifts culture. Time to stop cycling and start leading.

2020

New directions

Olaf becomes a beekeeper, because why should founders stay in one lane. We’re entrepreneurs. Artists. Scholars. Beekeepers. People with too many talents to hide them.

2022

Amilli

We launch a sustainable fashion brand made to help women show their true selves. Led by Karla, our Head of Finance, because at Headcase, finance leaders launch fashion brands. Another experiment. Another bet that diversity and uniqueness will always win.

2023

Choose and refuse

We draw a line. No more working with brands that knowingly harm people or the planet. Industries built on addiction and exploitation. We walk away from the revenue and choose values over profit. We’re not perfect. We’ve worked with brands we wouldn’t work with today. But we’re evolving, and we refuse to stay the same when the world demands better.

2024

Beyond experiential

Brands needed more than activation. They needed strategy that transforms, and commercial advisory that moves numbers. We’d always done it, but now we lead with it. Strategic consulting becomes the foundation, not the follow-through.

Today

Trust your mad idea

We back the organisations willing to take real risks. The ones unafraid to fail, stand back up, and try again. Fail better, learn faster, evolve constantly. Our Head of Finance helps write creative briefs. Our CEO is also a coach. The whole team gets coached, because we believe in progress, not perfection.

What it's like to work with us

Disruptors, entrepreneurs, no creative boundaries.

Gemma TeelingManaging Director, PHD Media
Maya Culture Award - Ireland's Most Loved Company To Work For 2025
AWARD WINNER 2025

IRELAND'S MOST
LOVED COMPANY
TO WORK FOR

We've been recognised by Maya Culture Awards as one of Ireland's most loved companies to work for. That matters to us. We set out to build a place where mad ideas get real attention, people can be more than one thing, and the culture actually lives what it claims. Seems like we're on the right track.

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★★★★★5-Star Culture
The team

The people in the room.

Strategists, brand directors, designers, researchers. The same names you meet at the start lead the work the whole way through.

Meet the team