How We Work
One platform. Three ways in.
Whether you want to be in the room, build your brand, or hand off the work entirely — there's a place for you here.
On Deck this season.
ELEVATE Pre-Event
Clarity + Vision
20/20: Brand Vision
November 12, 2026
Cocktails, clarity, and a little 20/20 for your business. A conversation on seeing the big picture and getting real vision for what's next. Ticket holders only — first come, first serve.
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Annual Summit
ELEVATE ✨
January 12, 2027 · Darien, CT
The Creative Women's Summit. Panels, keynotes, brand pop-ups, and the most electric room in New England.
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Coming Soon
THREADS Retreat
THREADS: Greenwich 🪡
February 9–11, 2027 · Greenwich, CT
Next stop: Greenwich. Where creativity and connection come together. Details coming soon.
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Now Accepting Clients
NECC Agency
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BrandBox · NECC Studio · ANCHOR AI
Ready to make waves? We're taking on new clients for brand strategy, content, and AI implementation.
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Our Story
One idea sparked a wave.
New England Coastal Creative started as a single event and became something no one planned — a real community. Today we're a full-service creative agency and platform connecting and elevating the brands, entrepreneurs, and destinations making waves across the modern coastal world. Because a rising tide raises all boats — and that's exactly what we're here to do.
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Where will you
be this season?
Annual Summit
ELEVATE ✨
The Creative Women's Summit. Panels, keynotes, brand pop-ups, and the most electric room in New England.
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THREADS Retreat
THREADS: Greenwich 🪡
Next stop: Greenwich. A curated creative retreat where creativity and connection come together.
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THREADS Retreat
Needlepoint EXPO 🪡
A dedicated needlepoint experience bringing together the stitching community — creativity, connection, and community all in one room.
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Creative Retreats
THREADS 🪡
Curated retreats where creativity and connection come together.
Where creativity and connection come together. THREADS retreats bring together creatives, entrepreneurs, and dreamers for hands-on experiences that blend creativity, conversation, and community. More than a retreat — it's a reminder that the best ideas come from the threads that connect us.
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NECC events put your brand in front of influential, engaged creative women across New England. Custom partnerships built around your goals.
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We connect women who are already making waves.
NECC was built to celebrate and elevate the brands, entrepreneurs, and creative women shaping the modern coastal world. We are the community where creatives find each other, where brands find their people, and where ideas become something real.
"Connecting creatives, brands, and community — across New England and beyond."
NECC Agency
The agency behind the brand.
We live inside the creative women's world — then we help brands show up authentically in it. Three ways to work with us, one mission: give brands the tools, reach, and strategy to connect more powerfully with their own communities.
Storytelling Platform
BrandBox™
Part sandbox, part strategy — BrandBox™ is where brands play, creators create, and stories make waves. Destination content trips, organic brand integrations, hand-selected creator partnerships, and the Navigator white-label guide series.
INCLUDES
Destination Content Trips · Creator Partnerships · Brand Integrations · Event Activations · Navigator Guides
Creative Agency
NECC Studio
Your creative agency partner — helping brands make waves through strategy, storytelling, and design. From one-off projects to our NECC Suite retainer where we become your de facto creative team, embedded in your business.
INCLUDES
Content & Creative · Influencer & Media Strategy · Brand Partnerships · Social Strategy · NECC Suite Retainer
AI Implementation
ANCHOR AI
We discover, build, and run the AI workflows your brand needs to work smarter and move faster. Done for you — from audit to implementation. Work alongside us in 1:1 consulting, or let us handle it entirely.
HOW WE WORK
Done With You (1:1 Consulting) · Done For You (ANCHOR AI)
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Ready to make waves together?
Whether you're looking for a brand storytelling partner, a creative agency, or an AI implementation team — we'd love to hear what you're building.
From the Studio
Insights for creative
brands & businesses.
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Creative U.
Let's work through it
together.
Sometimes you don't need a course. You need a conversation. 1:1 consulting for creative women who want real strategy, a fresh set of eyes, and someone who gets it.
Whether you're figuring out your next move, untangling your brand, building a content strategy, navigating PR and media, or learning to work smarter with Canva, Claude, ChatGPT, or Shopify — this is that.
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Currents.
What's moving the
creative world.
From Kim's desk to your inbox — and eventually, your coffee table. Currents is the NECC editorial voice: the trends, the people, the brands, and the moments worth paying attention to across creative New England and beyond.
Meet the Founder
Kim Thomas.
The woman behind the waves.
I built NECC because it's what I always needed when I was growing my own brand. A place to find real connections, meaningful collaborations, and honest answers to the things creative founders are quietly searching for. A community that gets the hustle, the vision, and everything in between.
I'm the founder and editor behind Shorelines Illustrated, a digital coastal living magazine, and the creative director of kimPrints, a needlepoint and gift brand rooted in New England. My work has been featured in Greenwich Lifestyle, Yankee Magazine, Coastal Living, and more.
The insider Substack and podcast for creative women building brands. Real conversations, in-the-know edits, and guests who are actually doing the work. This is where I get into it — strategy, style, creative life, and everything worth talking about.
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The Magazine
Shorelines
Illustrated
Coastal living, deeply told. Real estate, travel, style, food, and home across New England and beyond. Where the NECC world comes to life on the page.
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