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Brand strategy

The decision about what your brand stands for, who it is for, and why anyone should choose it over the alternative — written down, so every design, campaign and page that follows can be checked against it.

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Brand strategy
What it is

What you stand for, who it is for, why anyone should choose it.

Who it is for

Companies whose product has quietly outgrown the story they tell about it.

How it runs

Four steps, from audit to a written position

What you get

A written positioning document · Brand architecture · Messaging and tone of voice · A creative direction to design against

Approach

One team, one
through-line.

We start with what is actually true about the business: what it makes, who buys it and why, what the competition already owns, and where the gap is. That comes out of an audit, an immersion session with your team and, where it helps, interviews with your customers. Then we decide the position — and, just as importantly, what you give up in order to hold it.

You get it in writing: positioning, audience, brand architecture, messaging and tone of voice, and a creative direction. Everything we make afterwards is measured against that document. So is everything you make without us.

Brand strategy
What it covers
Brand & market audit
Brand immersion sessions
Customer and stakeholder interviews
Positioning & brand architecture
Audience and proposition
Messaging and tone of voice
Creative strategy
Naming strategy
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Step one

Audit

What is actually true about the business: what it makes, who buys it and why, what the competition already owns, and where the gap is.

  • 01Brand & market audit
  • 02Immersion session with your team
  • 03Customer interviews, where they help
02
Step two

Position

We decide what you stand for — and, just as importantly, what you give up in order to hold it. It gets written down.

  • 01Positioning & brand architecture
  • 02Audience and proposition
  • 03Messaging and tone of voice
03
Step three

Identity

The face. Every element decided rather than defaulted, and tested against the position before it is signed off.

  • 01Naming, where it is needed
  • 02Logo, typography, colour
  • 03Photography & 3D art direction
  • 04Motion and sound, where it earns it
04
Step four

System

Rules, not files. So that anyone — your printer, your agency, your intern — can apply it without asking us.

  • 01Guidelines and grids
  • 02Templates and collateral
  • 03Asset library, ready to hand over
05
Step five

Live

A brand is never finished at launch. We stay on for the website, the campaigns and the upkeep — or we hand it over cleanly.

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Let’s connect

Tell us about your company and where you want to take your brand. The first conversation is free and stays free.

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