Parallel is a Nashville-based public affairs and creative strategy firm built for campaigns, civic work, economic development, brand systems, and the public arena.
Two divisions. One operating system. Civics and Studio, built to move at the same time.
Parallel runs both. Strategy, messaging, design, production, and outreach belong in the same room from the beginning.
Built for governments, regional agencies, nonprofits, causes, public institutions, and organizations that need serious work without hiring a small parade of vendors.
Parallel was founded by Trent Harrington, a communications strategist and creative who has spent two decades building campaigns, civic narratives, brand systems, and public-facing work across the South.
The firm is built around a simple frustration: important organizations are too often forced to split strategy, messaging, design, web, content, and execution across vendors who barely talk to each other.
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Parallel Civics helps public-facing organizations shape the message, organize the work, and move people toward action. Built for cities, councils of government, nonprofits, advocacy groups, and regional institutions that need clarity before the room gets loud.
Parallel Studio makes strategy visible. Identity, film, digital, copy, social, presentations, and web systems built for work that has to hold up in public, not just look nice in a deck.
Parallel is built around one basic discipline: everyone should know what is being made, why it matters, and where the work stands.
Clients get clear scopes, visible priorities, direct communication, and plain-language status reporting. Transparent by design. Not performative. Useful.
The result is less vendor fog, fewer orphaned assets, and a cleaner path from idea to public impact.