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Most brand work is decoration. We treat strategy as a load-bearing wall — the thing every downstream decision leans on.

  • Starting at $35k
  • 5–7 weeks
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· BRAND STRATEGY01

The problem

What you are probably facing.

You have a real business and a fuzzy story. Investors reword your pitch, hires misquote the mission, and the marketing team is inventing tone from scratch every Monday. Growth is possible — but not compounding.

How we approach it

The way we would run it.

A five-week sprint that ends with one positioning statement, one message architecture, and one voice guide the whole company can operate from. We work with the founders, not around them.

What ships

Specific deliverables, tagged by phase.

No mystery boxes. Every phase is a fixed set of artefacts you can point at when the invoice arrives.

  1. 01Phase

    Discover

    • Founder & leadership interviews
    • Category & competitor audit
    • Audience segmentation
  2. 02Phase

    Sharpen

    • Positioning platform
    • Message architecture
    • Naming (optional)
  3. 03Phase

    Systematize

    • Voice & tone guide
    • Narrative playbook
    • Rollout workshop

Timeline & investment

What a real engagement looks like.

Timelines are firm, not aspirational. The number below is where every engagement starts — final scope is written before we invoice, not after.

Timeline
5–7 weeks
Investment
Starting at $35k

Scope bar

3 phases

  1. 01Discover3 deliverables
  2. 02Sharpen3 deliverables
  3. 03Systematize3 deliverables
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Featured case

This is what it looked like.

A recent partner who ran a brand strategy engagement with us. Real numbers, verified by their analytics.

Aurora Labs · 2025

A rebrand that opened Series B doors

A precision rebrand and website launch that repositioned Aurora from research lab to defensible category leader.

Series B raise
$42M
Inbound qualified leads
+340%
Time on site
3m 42s
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Aurora Labs — A rebrand that opened Series B doors

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