Aevitas Creative Management

What Aevitas Creative Management does

Aevitas Creative Management is a full-service, privately held literary agency headquartered in New York that represents the rights of authors' books across global markets and multiple media formats. The firm employs more than fifty agents across offices in ten cities — New York, Boston, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Detroit, Nashville, and Atlanta in the United States, plus London (via the ACM UK subsidiary), Paris, and Barcelona — and maintains a network of twenty-one co-agents in international territories for translation rights. Its roster includes scores of award-winning authors whose works have earned Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, Guggenheim Fellowships, National Book Critics Circle Awards, Nobel Peace Prizes, and Tony, Grammy, Emmy, and Academy Awards, indicating a high-caliber client base that is the firm's primary commercial asset.

The agency's core service offerings are literary representation (editorial guidance and advocacy throughout publishing), foreign rights representation (directly via ACM UK in London and through co-agents worldwide), media rights (film and television adaptations via collaborations with top-tier talent agencies and production companies), and audio rights. Specialized wholly-owned subsidiaries — ACM Kids & Illustration for children's literature and Aevitas Entertainment for media adaptations — extend the agency into adjacent verticals. A separate strategic communications consulting and original content development practice serves business, political, and cultural leaders, institutions, brands, and estates. The firm is led by co-CEOs David Kuhn and Todd Shuster, with COO Kate Mack, six additional Senior Partners, and Toby Mundy as CEO of the ACM UK subsidiary.

Aevitas operates as a traditional commission-based professional services firm with no proprietary technology platform, mobile application, or AI-driven product features. Revenue is generated through agency commissions on domestic book deals (typically 15%) and on foreign and subsidiary rights (typically 20%), with additional commission streams from media and audio licensing. The go-to-market motion is sales-led, driven by industry reputation, referrals, and direct outreach to authors seeking representation rather than explicit marketing campaigns. No funding rounds, institutional investors, or revenue figures have been disclosed.

Name

Aevitas Creative Management

Legal name

Aevitas Creative Management

Website

https://aevitascreative.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Aevitas Creative Management is a full-service literary agency with 50+ agents across ten cities in the US and Europe, representing award-winning authors' rights in domestic publishing, foreign translations, film/TV adaptations, and audio, via subsidiaries ACM UK, ACM Kids & Illustration, and Aevitas Entertainment.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Literary Agency Services

NAICS

Agents and Managers for Artists, Athletes, Entertainers, and Other Public Figures (7114), Newspaper, Periodical, Book, and Directory Publishers (5131)

SIC

Miscellaneous Publishing (2741), Books: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2731)

akta.pro primary industry

Contracting, Licensing & Rights Management (Music/Performance Releases) (HSACAHAM)

Keywords

• Literary agency services
• Author representation
• Foreign rights management
• Book publishing rights
• Media rights representation

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices10 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Literary Representation and Rights Management: Commission-based representation for authors. The agency represents rights to authors' books worldwide and in other media, earning commissions on book deals, subsidiary rights sales, foreign translations, film/TV adaptations, and audio rights licensing. Also provides strategic communications consulting and original content development services to business, political, and cultural leaders.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Aevitas Creative Management is a full-service literary agency that represents authors' book rights worldwide and across media formats, including literary representation with editorial guidance and advocacy, foreign rights via subsidiary ACM UK and 21 international co-agents, media rights for film and television adaptations, and audio rights representation. The agency also provides strategic communications consulting and original content development services to business, political, and cultural leaders, institutions, brands, and estates.

Product overview

Aevitas Creative Management is a full-service literary agency offering a comprehensive suite of services for authors. The core offerings include Literary Representation providing editorial guidance, Foreign Rights representation through its ACM UK subsidiary and a network of 21 international co-agents, Media Rights handling film and television adaptation deals, and Audio Rights. The agency also operates specialized divisions: ACM Kids & Illustration for children's literature, and Aevitas Entertainment for media adaptations. Beyond traditional literary representation, the company provides strategic communications consulting and original content development services. The agency maintains over fifty agents across offices in New York, Boston, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Detroit, Nashville, Atlanta, London, Paris, and Barcelona.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Aevitas Entertainment: Entertainment and media rights division
• ACM Kids & Illustration
• Aevitas Collaboration

Products and services

• Literary Representation Full-service literary representation providing unusually meaningful editorial guidance, inspiration, and advocacy for authors throughout the publishing process.
• Foreign Rights Representation of clients' books in the UK directly via ACM UK based in London, and for translation worldwide via a network of 21 co-agents in all key territories.
• Media Rights Collaboration with top-tier talent agencies, management firms, and production companies representing the film and television rights to authors' books.
• Audio Rights

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Trident Media Group: Full-service literary agency with significant scale, representing authors and handling subsidiary, foreign, film/TV, and audio rights. Comparable to Aevitas in offering a broad service menu across rights categories.
• Writers House: One of the largest independent U.S. literary agencies, representing hundreds of authors across all major book categories with full subsidiary rights capabilities. Highly comparable to Aevitas in scale, scope, and full-service rights orientation.
• InkWell Management: Independent literary agency representing notable literary and nonfiction authors with strong foreign-rights and film/TV adaptation expertise. Closely comparable to Aevitas's mix of prestige authors and rights packaging.
• Sterling Lord Literistic: Long-established independent literary agency representing fiction and nonfiction authors. Comparable to Aevitas as a traditional full-service literary agency focused on editorial guidance and book-deal representation.
• The Wylie Agency: High-profile independent literary agency founded by Andrew Wylie, representing bestselling and award-winning authors across fiction and nonfiction. Directly comparable to Aevitas in serving elite literary authors with full-service rights representation including foreign, film/TV, and audio rights.
• Folio Literary Management: Independent full-service literary agency representing a wide range of authors in fiction and nonfiction. Directly comparable to Aevitas's independent, full-service representation model.

Broad incumbents

• Creative Artists Agency (CAA): Premier global talent agency with a substantial literary division and integrated book-to-screen packaging capabilities. Comparable to Aevitas in author representation and adaptation deals but operates at significantly greater scale and scope.
• United Talent Agency (UTA): Major global talent agency with growing book-publishing and literary-adaptation operations. Overlaps with Aevitas in literary representation and media-rights packaging, particularly in the film/TV adaptation pipeline.
• WME (William Morris Endeavor): Global talent and literary agency with a major book-publishing division alongside film, TV, sports, and brand partnerships. Overlaps with Aevitas in book-deal and film/TV rights representation but operates at much larger scale and across broader entertainment categories.

Regional players

• Andrew Nurnberg Associates: Long-standing international literary agency specializing in translation rights across multiple European and Asian territories. Comparable to Aevitas's network of international co-agents, but operating primarily as a regional translation-rights specialist rather than a U.S.-anchored full-service agency.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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