Historically the company has worked in talent management. Cyd hired me to head a formal literary department to compliment the talent efforts. We have offices in New York and Los Angeles. We represent writers for features and television, and we look for projects for our clients to star in. Occasionally we will also produce projects.
Agents have hundreds of clients and can only spend a little time on each.
Agents don't spend enough time on a client to really make a difference. Agents will send your script out to a handful of companies they think may be appropriate. Agents sending specs out to only a couple at a time kills the property as soon as one person dislikes it. Specs have to go wide to everyone at the same exact time so that execs actually read it and form their own opinions and then are racing against each other to bid. I agented at two agencies before getting into management.