Creative speed, without compromise.

Longhouse cuts creative and document workflows in half with Adobe’s AI-powered tools.

40%

faster creative project delivery

50%

shorter logo review cycles (2 weeks → 1 week)

30%

faster asset clean-up and production

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Longhouse isn’t trying to be just another agency. From the start, the Canada-based studio has been driven by ambition, speed and belief in great creative work.

When Keenan Beavis founded Longhouse Branding and Marketing in 2018, his goal was to build the best marketing agency in his city. Eight years later, Longhouse is the highest-rated agency in all of Vancouver and the fastest-growing agency in Canada, according to Clutch, with more than 850 clients spanning over 92 industries.

As the agency grew, so did expectations.

That growth brought a familiar challenge: how do you move faster without sacrificing the creativity clients came for?

For Longhouse, the answer wasn’t about replacing people or automating craft. It was about using Adobe’s AI-powered tools to help clients see, review and refine creative work faster—by reducing time spent managing files, feedback and revisions.

“The organisations we serve all share one thing in common: an endless to-do list. We take branding and marketing off that list so brands can focus on doing what they love,” Beavis says. “Adobe does the same for Longhouse, so we can focus on being the best creative partner to our own clients.”

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Winning attention without watering down creativity.

Standing out today means earning attention — and keeping it. Longhouse uses the generative AI capabilities in Adobe Creative Cloud to help clients create “wow moments” that cut through crowded feeds.

With Adobe Firefly generative AI embedded directly into tools like Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, Longhouse’s teams can experiment more freely, explore new creative directions and iterate faster without compromising design quality.

Longhouse’s designers work with client imagery in all forms, from professional photos to spontaneous snaps taken with a mobile device. Refining these images to make them campaign-ready used to be a lengthy and painstaking process, involving cloning, detailed compositing, masking and texture matching. Today, the AI-assisted tools in Photoshop allow Longhouse’s designers to edit and elevate client images quickly with no additional production costs, which means they can create agency-standard ads, branding projects and presentation decks for every client at a fair value.

Similarly, the ability to develop, submit and revise creative assets at speed in Photoshop has reduced final logo selection times for branding projects in half. The agency’s designers simply create vector logos in Illustrator and present them to clients as Photoshop mockups, giving them a full picture of how their brand identity will look across formats, from business cards and trade show displays to promotional merchandise and signage. The real-time integration between Adobe’s solutions means every update made in Illustrator is immediately reflected in Photoshop, helping Longhouse to cut the review process for logos from two weeks to one.

“We are committed to bringing our clients in on the creative process,” Beavis says. “The faster they can review, share feedback and see the next iteration of their project, the better we can collaborate. That’s what Adobe allows us to do.”

The AI-powered clean-up tools in Illustrator have reduced asset clean-up time by 30%, significantly accelerating turnarounds for developing new assets. That efficiency helps Longhouse produce more content, faster, driving down costs and passing savings on to clients. Across hundreds of clients and partners, the agency has delivered 30% savings in billable hours.

“We bring our clients in on the creative process. The faster they can review, share feedback and see the next iteration of their project, the better we can collaborate,” says Beavis. “Adobe’s tools have helped Longhouse improve project completion timelines by over 40%, helping us to create the award-winning experience we’re known for.”

Creative efficiency meets meaningful impact.

For Longhouse, speed only matters if quality rises alongside it. That’s why the agency uses Creative Cloud to support content workflows that span concept, creation, collaboration and delivery.

While Longhouse combined the power of Adobe Firefly, Illustrator and Adobe Stock to create an entirely new identity for child psychology clinic, the agency’s designers used Illustrator’s colour exploration capabilities, including Generative Recolor, to experiment with a variety of palettes and shape a bold, unique colour system for Pinwheel that won the company a design award and made its clinics feel more welcoming for young patients, all without sacrificing speed or efficiency.

For the Oregon-based ‘Interwoven’, Western and Indigenous Arts and Fashion Festival, Longhouse’s teams used Adobe After Effects to animate brand elements that were originally created in Illustrator, including logo animations for the client’s website and events. Because Illustrator artwork can be imported directly into After Effects as editable layers, teams were able to animate vector graphics without having to rebuild assets from scratch, slashing production times and allowing them to iterate quickly with Interwoven’s stakeholders.

AI hasn’t replaced creativity in Longhouse’s process. Instead, it has created space for more of it. One of Beavis’s favourite examples of this came when working on a project for JKA Karate Vancouver. As part of the project, Longhouse’s designers used the Image Trace Tool in Illustrator to transform hand-drawn paintings and sketches into refined brand assets for the client, which were then added to Creative Cloud Libraries so that every team member could access these source visuals across Adobe applications. For Beavis, this approach reflects his agency’s ability to create unique artwork that merges traditional artistic techniques with modern production to deliver truly impactful experiences.

“Your brand is the feeling people have when they experience you,” Beavis says. “As an agency that’s committed to saving time for our clients, we use Adobe Creative Cloud to help them to create the version of their brand they want the world to see, without the headache.”

“Your brand is the feeling people have when they experience you. As an agency that’s committed to saving time for our clients, we use Adobe Creative Cloud to help them to create the version of their brand they want the world to see, without the headache.”

Keenan Beavis

CEO Longhouse Branding and Marketing

Keeping collaboration fast and secure.

As the agency and its client roster grow, Longhouse must keep up with hundreds of documents each year. Adobe Acrobat Studio has become a key part of its document management workflow, helping teams unlock critical insights and collaborate efficiently while protecting sensitive information.

Features like Acrobat AI Assistant and PDF Spaces allow teams to compress and securely share files, summarise long documents and analyse multiple PDFs at once — slashing hours from document workflows.

“Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant gets rid of all my PDF headaches,” Beavis says. “Which means I gain back valuable time to focus on more strategic work and do things I love.”

PDF Spaces also extends Longhouse’s collaborative culture into document work, reducing document intake time by 30% and supporting faster, better-informed decisions across teams.

Acrobat simplifies data security, privacy and governance. Whether it's client content or Longhouse's own data, the information is encrypted in transit and at rest and never used to train AI models. This high standard of security and governance is particularly crucial for Longhouse clients that work in highly-regulated industries, like the medical field.

Building what’s next with people and AI.

For Longhouse, choosing Adobe wasn’t just about speed or creative experimentation. It was about building a platform designed for professional-grade control, with enterprise-ready security, brand governance and AI tools trained for commercial use.

With Firefly’s commercially safe generative AI embedded directly within Creative Cloud flagship apps, Longhouse can scale creativity without sacrificing consistency or client trust. In an industry where brand integrity and intellectual property matter, that balance is critical.

As Longhouse continues its rapid growth, Beavis sees AI as a force multiplier for talented people. His advice to other agency leaders is straightforward: invest in creative talent and give them tools that remove friction rather than add it.

“Invest in people that make the world beautiful and in the tools they need to do that,” he says. “When something looks beautiful, people pay attention. And Adobe’s AI-powered technologies can help you to create moments that truly resonate.”

For fast-growing agencies, Longhouse shows what’s possible when AI supports human creativity, unlocking new ways of thinking, working and connecting with clients.