assembled around your opportunity.

a global collective

People for Every Challenge

We shape a team based on your needs, as large as your ambition. From strategy to production, our approach connects across internal talent and partners to deliver bigger, stranger, better ideas.

Teams We Shape

  • Creative + Brand Strategists

  • Writers + Directors + Designers

  • AI + Creative Technologists

  • Producers + Studios

  • Artists + Animators

Work We Build

  • Brand Strategy + Product Positioning

  • Integrated Campaigns + Platforms

  • Films, Social Content + Experiences

  • Agentic Marketing Solutions

  • Messaging Systems

Founders and Friends

Our experience is across tech companies, agencies, and studios. We founded Original Model to make good work with good people for the right reasons.

Tom Brown

Tom is a brand builder with 25+ years of experience at the intersection of storytelling, strategy, and technology. He spent 14 years at Meta leading marketing teams focused on innovation, creative strategy, and growth, and co-founded a nationally distributed CPG brand. Across companies, agencies, and startups, he turns insight, imagination, and emerging technology into ideas that move people and businesses.

Eric Oldrin

Eric is a director and creative leader with 25+ years of experience exploring emerging technology. From Macromedia to Meta, he has led creative innovation across new media from immersive experiences to generative AI, with partners like David Lynch and Tim Burton, Paramount and the Paralympics. His work has earned dozens of awards and has been featured in the Gernika Peace Museum and Criterion Collection.