What we do · 01 · Brand Design

Brand strategy and identity that every team can use.

Brand strategy, identity and the rules, templates and AI checks that keep a brand consistent everywhere.

Capabilities
6
Stages
8
Operations
AI-assisted

Why now

Your brand now appears in more places than any team can check by hand.

Looking up through the steel and glass lattice of a large public roof Where people meet your brandStores, screens, service desks, partners and AI assistants
  1. 01

    More touchpoints

    Apps, stores, service desks, partners and AI assistants now all speak for the brand.

  2. 02

    More content to approve

    Generative tools make assets faster than teams can approve them, so brand rules must be readable by software too.

  3. 03

    Complex portfolios

    Acquisitions, sub-brands and new ventures pile up. Without clear brand architecture, customers get lost and brand value spreads thin.

  4. 04

    Closer scrutiny

    Accessibility rules, sustainability claims and AI labelling now shape brand decisions as well as legal ones.

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What we offer

Six brand capabilities, bought alone or as one programme.

You can start with any one. Each has its own scope and deliverables and works with the other five.

A strategy workshop wall covered in sticky notes and sketches

01 / 06Where to play next

Growth Strategy

The customers and markets to pursue next, chosen from research and market data.

We rank your next best customer segments, map the gaps competitors leave open and sequence the moves to win them. Agents score each segment; named people sign off the shortlist and roadmap.

What you get

  • Market & category mapFigma · PDF
  • Next-best-customer rankingSheet · Deck
  • Competitive whitespace mapFigma
  • Growth thesisOne page
  • Move roadmap · now / next / laterDeck · Board

Call us when

  • Growth has stalled in the core segment.
  • A new market or category is on the table.
  • Sales and marketing disagree on who the customer is.

Typical length · 4–6 weeks Format · Workshop-led

Explore Growth Strategy
Stacks of blank business cards on a pale surface

02 / 06Logo, colour, type and voice

Brand Identity

Visual identity, tone of voice and brand guidelines for every touchpoint.

We design brand identities for enterprises and growing brands: logo, colour, type, voice and motion. Your teams get guidelines and templates that keep the brand consistent on every touchpoint.

What you get

  • Logo & clear-space rulesSVG · PDF
  • Colour palette & tokensFigma · JSON
  • Typefaces & type scaleFigma · font files
  • Voice, tone & vocabularyGuidelines
  • Behaviour principles & momentsGuidelines

Call us when

  • The identity no longer fits what the company has become.
  • A merger, spin-off or listing needs a new face.
  • Every team now makes its own version of the brand.

Typical length · 6–10 weeks Scope · Visual · verbal · behavioural

Explore Brand Identity
A team working together at a glass wall

03 / 06Purpose, positioning and values

Brand Foundation

Positioning, values and principles, written as the brand platform every team works from.

We write your purpose, positioning, values and brand narrative with your leadership team. Each part is tested against decisions you have already made before it is signed.

What you get

  • Purpose, vision & missionDocument
  • Positioning statement & proofOne page
  • Values & decision principlesDocument
  • Audience definition & insightDocument
  • Brand narrative · three lengthsDocument · Deck

Call us when

  • Leadership describes the company five different ways.
  • A new strategy needs a brand that can carry it.
  • Decisions stall because there is no agreed positioning.

Typical length · 3–5 weeks Format · Leadership-led

Explore Brand Foundation
A hand holding a phone with a blank screen in soft light

04 / 06Shared brand rules

Brand Systems

Design tokens, templates and rules that let a brand adapt and stay recognisable.

We design tokens, components, templates and rules for product, marketing and communications teams. Agents check every asset; a named person approves releases.

What you get

  • Design tokensJSON · Figma variables · CSS
  • Component libraryFigma · code
  • Template setFigma · Office · CMS
  • Flex rules & rangesGuidelines
  • Governance modelDocument

Call us when

  • Assets are rebuilt by hand in every market.
  • Product and marketing present two different brands.
  • Partners cannot stay on brand without a review queue.

Typical length · 6–12 weeks Scope · Tokens · components · templates

Explore Brand Systems
Office towers seen from street level, looking straight up

05 / 06Portfolio structure and naming

Brand Architecture

Structure and naming for products and sub-brands that keep the portfolio clear.

We audit the brands you carry, choose the architecture model, set naming rules and plan a phased migration. Customers can then find the right offer, and each new product has a place.

What you get

  • Portfolio map & auditFigma · Sheet
  • Architecture model & decision recordDocument
  • Relationship & lockup rulesGuidelines
  • Naming system & nomenclatureDocument
  • Migration plan · phasedRoadmap

Call us when

  • An acquired brand needs a place in the portfolio.
  • A new product needs a name and nobody agrees.
  • Customers confuse two of your offerings.

Typical length · 4–8 weeks Scope · Portfolio-wide

Explore Brand Architecture
Hands working on a laptop at a desk

06 / 06Brand Design

Brand AI Tools

Automated brand checks on every asset, before a named person approves it.

We tune image and language models on your brand and build the brand check, templates and copy assistant your team uses. Agents make and check every variant; a named person approves what goes live.

What you get

  • Brand-tuned image modelWeights · yours
  • Brand-tuned language model or promptsWeights · prompt set
  • Brand checkPlugin · API
  • Generation pipelineComfyUI · API
  • Template engineWeb · API

Call us when

  • Content demand has outrun the brand team.
  • Teams already use generative tools with no rules.
  • Localising content for many markets is slow and inconsistent.

Typical length · 6–10 weeks Tools · Flux · Firefly · ComfyUI

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How it works

From the first conversation to a brand your teams can run.

Eight stages, each ending in a decision and deliverables you keep. Timings are typical for an enterprise programme and depend on scope.

Typical enterprise programme Illustrative

Discovery & audit

What the brand must do for the business, what exists today and what is in scope.

Wk 01–03Typical

The decision
The sponsor agrees scope and goals.
What you get
Brand auditTouchpoint inventoryStakeholder map
Who is in the room
Sponsor, brand lead and our programme lead.
✦ Where AI assists
Agents list and group touchpoints, flagging off-brand ones for a person to review.

Research & insight

Customer and employee interviews, plus analysis of the category and online reviews.

Wk 02–05Typical

The decision
Which audiences matter most and what they need.
What you get
Interview synthesisAudience definitionsCategory analysis
Who is in the room
Customers, sales and service teams, with our research lead.
✦ Where AI assists
Agents group transcripts and reviews into sourced themes for the research lead to check.

Strategy & positioning

Purpose, positioning and principles drafted, debated and refined with your leadership.

Wk 05–07Typical

The decision
Leadership signs off the positioning.
What you get
Brand foundationPositioning statementGrowth priorities
Who is in the room
The executive team.
✦ Where AI assists
Agents compare each positioning option with competitor messaging to find overlaps.

Architecture & naming

Every brand and product given a place, a relationship and a naming rule.

Wk 06–09Typical

The decision
Portfolio model and naming rules.
What you get
Architecture modelNaming systemMigration outline
Who is in the room
Portfolio owners, product leads and legal.
✦ Where AI assists
Agents screen name candidates for language problems in each target market; legal clearance stays with your counsel.

Identity design

Visual, verbal and behavioural identity designed together and shown on your own touchpoints.

Wk 08–13Typical

The decision
One direction, chosen after seeing each in use.
What you get
Direction boardsVisual & verbal identityMotion principles
Who is in the room
Brand lead, design leads and pilot markets.
✦ Where AI assists
Agents mock up each direction across the touchpoint inventory for testing.

Guidelines & templates

Tokens, components, templates and living guidelines built from the chosen identity.

Wk 12–16Typical

The decision
What is fixed, what can flex and who approves changes.
What you get
Design tokensTemplate libraryLiving guidelines
Who is in the room
Product design, marketing operations and IT.
✦ Where AI assists
Brand rules written as tokens and automatic checks that design tools and agents can apply.

Launch & rollout

The brand launched market by market, with teams and partners trained to use it.

Wk 15–20Typical

The decision
Launch sequence by market and channel.
What you get
Rollout planLaunch templatesTeam training
Who is in the room
Market leads, agencies and internal communications.
✦ Where AI assists
Agents draft local versions from approved templates; automatic checks review and log each one.

Governance & updates

Clear owners, agreed measures and a regular release schedule keep the brand improving after launch.

Wk 18 → ongoingTypical

The decision
How the brand is owned, measured and changed.
What you get
Governance modelBrand health trackerRelease cadence
Who is in the room
The brand council.
✦ Where AI assists
The brand check reviews live assets and reports anything off-brand to the brand owner.
Stage 01 of 08

How we use AI

Your brand rules, written so AI agents can check and apply them.

We write your guidelines as tokens, templates and approved claims, then build agents that check every asset, draft variants from approved parts and propose guideline updates.

Interactive demo. In the Check tab an agent scans three sample assets, flags one issue in each (low contrast, tight clearspace, an unsupported claim) and proposes a fix for a person to approve. Other tabs show generated variants, a guidelines answer with its changelog and the audit log.

Brand OS · Your brand · workspace Agent online

Brand check6 / 6 pass

  • Colour tokens
  • Clearspace
  • Type scale
  • Contrast · WCAG AA
  • Tone of voice
  • Claims & disclosures

Suggested fix

Call-to-action contrast is 3.4:1

Needs 4.5:1. Switch the label to ink on paper.

White label on pale blueInk label on paper

Partner lockup clearspace is 0.4×

Needs 1×. Move the partner lockup right.

Lockups 0.4× apartLockups 1× apart

Unsubstantiated claim

Use a specific, evidenced claim from the claims library.

“The greenest choice on the shelf.”“Carton made with recycled board.”

Approved by Brand reviewer · logged

Prompt

Launch visual for Market 03, 4:5, product in use, calm light

Guardrails

  • Palette locked
  • Approved photography style
  • Brand type scale only
  • Claims from the approved library
  • Released imagery only
  • Generated output 1 ✓ Pass
  • Generated output 2 ✓ Pass
  • Generated output 3 ! Review · crop hides product
  • Generated output 4 ✓ Pass

Answer · from the living guidelines

Yes. Use the reversed lockup with 1× clearspace, on a background from the approved dark palette.

4.2 Co-branding2.1 Clearspace

Changelog

  • v3.2Small-text contrast rule tightened; affected templates updatedApproved by Brand owner
  • v3.1Market 07 added to the localisation setApproved by Brand council
  • v3.0Motion principles publishedApproved by Brand owner
TimeAssetAgent actionHuman decisionStatus
10:42Market 03 · socialContrast fixed by agentApprovedShipped
10:31Partner · web bannerClearspace flaggedSent to reviewerIn review
10:18Market 07 · emailLocalised variant generatedSigned off in-marketShipped
09:56Retail · posterClaim flagged · rewrite proposedRewritten by copy leadShipped
09:40GuidelinesRule update proposed (v3.2)Approved by Brand ownerReleased
  1. 01

    Research synthesis

    Agents turn interviews, reviews and market data into themes, each with its sources.

  2. 02

    On-brand variants

    Agents draft versions using approved parts only.

  3. 03

    Automated brand check

    Every asset is checked against the brand rules before release.

  4. 04

    Market versions

    Agents draft versions fitted to each market’s language.

  5. 05

    Live monitoring

    Agents watch live channels and show the brand owner anything off-brand.

AI governance

Agents do the repeatable work. Named people approve what goes live.

Agents research, draft, check, localise and monitor. The people who decide are named, on your side and ours, and every step is logged.

  • Research

    Agents: Groups interviews, reviews and market data into themes

    People decide: Which findings matter and what to do about them

  • Generation

    Agents: Drafts variants from approved parts

    People decide: What goes live and what is never automated

  • Brand checks

    Agents: Flags off-brand elements, low contrast and unsupported claims

    People decide: Exceptions and rule changes

  • Localisation

    Agents: Drafts market versions and fits text to length

    People decide: Local reviewers approve meaning and tone

  • Guidelines

    Agents: Proposes updates when patterns repeat

    People decide: The brand owner approves every release

  • Monitoring

    Agents: Reports off-brand use across live channels

    People decide: The brand council sets priorities

Two colleagues reviewing printed documents together at a table Named approversEach release records who approved it.
  • Your models, your accounts

    Model weights, prompts, pipelines and logs are kept in your cloud accounts.

  • Limited data use

    Your assets are used only for your brand, and data handling is agreed in writing before anything is shared.

  • Every output logged

    Each output’s origin and approval are logged, with content credentials added where the channel supports them.

  • Tools chosen on evidence

    Flux, Adobe Firefly and ComfyUI for images; Gemini, OpenAI or Anthropic models for language. No partner tier is implied.

What you get

Everything handed over, in files your teams can use.

You receive source files, tokens, templates, guidelines and models, organised the way your teams work.

Your brand /

In your accounts

  • Market & category map

    FigmaPDF

  • Next-best-customer ranking

    SheetDeck

  • Competitive whitespace map

    Figma

  • Growth thesis

    One page

  • Move roadmap · now / next / later

    DeckBoard

  • Measurement frame

    Sheet

  • Logo & clear-space rules

    SVGPDF

  • Colour palette & tokens

    FigmaJSON

  • Typefaces & type scale

    Figmafont files

  • Voice, tone & vocabulary

    Guidelines

  • Behaviour principles & moments

    Guidelines

  • Motion principles

    VideoLottie

  • Identity guidelines

    WebPDF

  • Launch templates

    FigmaOffice

  • Purpose, vision & mission

    Document

  • Positioning statement & proof

    One page

  • Values & decision principles

    Document

  • Audience definition & insight

    Document

  • Brand narrative · three lengths

    DocumentDeck

  • Foundation on a page

    PDFPrint

  • Design tokens

    JSONFigma variablesCSS

  • Component library

    Figmacode

  • Template set

    FigmaOfficeCMS

  • Flex rules & ranges

    Guidelines

  • Governance model

    Document

  • System documentation site

    Web

  • Release notes & versioning

    Changelog

  • Portfolio map & audit

    FigmaSheet

  • Architecture model & decision record

    Document

  • Relationship & lockup rules

    Guidelines

  • Naming system & nomenclature

    Document

  • Migration plan · phased

    Roadmap

  • New-brand test

    One page

  • Brand-tuned image model

    Weightsyours

  • Brand-tuned language model or prompts

    Weightsprompt set

  • Brand check

    PluginAPI

  • Generation pipeline

    ComfyUIAPI

  • Template engine

    WebAPI

  • Rule tests & evaluation set

    Tests

  • Output log & governance

    Dashboard

  • Rollout plan

    Roadmap

  • Launch templates

    FigmaOffice

  • Team training

    Recorded sessions

  • Governance model

    Document

  • Brand health tracker

    Dashboard

  • Decision log

    Document

Source files, tokens, templates and model weights, delivered into your accounts and documented for your teams.

Touchpoints

One identity, with rules for every surface.

Signs, apps, packaging and print each have their own rules for size, colour and spacing, all taken from the same guidelines.

A blank lightbox sign in a bright transit hall
WayfindingType size set by viewing distance.
A hand holding a phone with a blank screen
AppTokens shared with the product UI.
A plain white mailer box on a pale surface
PackagingOne grid across every pack size.
A plain takeaway cup held in a hand
Takeaway cupMarks that survive curves and heat.
Stacks of blank business cards
StationeryPrint colour matched to the screen tokens.
A plain canvas tote bag
ToteMinimum sizes for fabric and embroidery.
EmailEventsUniformVehicle liveryProduct UIVoice assistantAnnual reportCareers sitePartner portalTrade showService deskRetail fit-out

Industries

Brand design shaped by your sector’s rules and buyers.

Regulation, buying cycles and touchpoints differ by sector, so each programme starts from the constraints you work under.

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Glass office towers in a financial district

01Sector

Financial services

Trust is the product.

  • Clarity under regulation
  • Consistent disclosures across channels
  • A digital identity that still reads as secure
Regulated communications · approval workflows
A scientist using a pipette in a laboratory

02Sector

Healthcare & life sciences

Every word is reviewed.

  • Patient and professional audiences under one brand
  • Plain language and accessibility
  • Product brands under a corporate master brand
Medical, legal and regulatory review
Close-up of server hardware in a data centre

03Sector

Technology & SaaS

A brand that holds steady while the product changes monthly.

  • Tokens shared with the product UI
  • Naming for fast-growing feature sets
  • One voice for developers and enterprise buyers
Release cadence · product surfaces
A minimal clothing store interior

04Sector

Consumer & retail

Won or lost on a shelf and a screen.

  • Packaging systems that scale across ranges
  • Seasonal changes that stay on brand
  • Content at marketplace volume
Retailer and marketplace specs
Engineers working on the floor of a manufacturing plant

05Sector

Industrial & manufacturing

Complex portfolios, long buying cycles.

  • Architecture across divisions and acquired brands
  • Technical documentation as a touchpoint
  • An employer brand that attracts engineers
Distributor networks · multilingual technical content
Wind turbines across a rolling landscape

06Sector

Energy & utilities

Under public and regulatory scrutiny.

  • A transition story backed by evidence
  • Clear customer communication
  • Safety-critical signage and fleet
Claims scrutiny · regulated customer communications
The white shelves and stairs of a modern public library

07Sector

Public sector & institutions

Accessible to everyone, by design.

  • Accessibility built into every token
  • Plain language
  • An identity that scales across departments and services
Accessibility standards · procurement frameworks
A modern hotel lobby with a marble reception desk

08Sector

Hospitality & real estate

The brand is a place.

  • Wayfinding and environmental design
  • Architecture across properties
  • A consistent experience across owners and operators
Owner–operator models · physical rollout

Global rollout

One brand, rolled out market by market.

Enterprise brands launch in waves, take on acquisitions and rely on many partners. We plan for all three from the first week.

Rollout by market Illustrative

MarketIdentityTemplatesDigitalSignagePackagingTrainingScript
Market 01EMEA Live Live Live Live Live Live Latin
Market 02EMEA Live Live Live Live Live Live Latin
Market 03APAC Live Live Live Live Live Live Devanagari
Market 04EMEA Live Live Live Live Live Live Arabic · RTL
Market 05Americas Live Live Live Live Live Live Latin
Market 06APAC Live Live Live Localising Localising Live CJK
Market 07Americas Live Live Live Localising Localising Live Latin
Market 08APAC Live Live Live Localising Localising Live Devanagari

Copy is rewritten for each market and approved by local reviewers.

Script-ready type pairingsLength-expansion rulesRight-to-left layoutsLocal flex ranges

A traveller with a backpack walks through a sunlit airport concourse Seen in transitSigns like this are read in passing and in many languages, so the brand has to work in each.

After an acquisition

Every brand gets a place, a relationship and a migration path, so customers know where each one fits.

Governance across markets

Central owners set the rules; local teams adapt within agreed ranges.

  • Tiered approvals: what markets can change themselves and what needs the brand council.
  • Local changes within written ranges.
  • One set of guidelines and tokens that every partner and tool uses.

Sustainability & responsibility

Responsible defaults and provable claims.

We write responsible defaults for materials, file sizes, accessibility and inclusion into your guidelines, and we will not help a brand claim more than it can prove.

Morning light over an open landscape

Claim checkSources required

“Our packaging is 100% sustainable.”

Too broad to prove. Name the material and the evidence.

Suggested“Our cartons use recycled board. Evidence on file.”

  1. 01

    Materials & packaging

    Guidance on substrates, inks, finishes and formats, written into the guidelines so every market starts from the same defaults.

    Packaging specification
  2. 02

    Lighter digital assets

    Font subsets, image budgets and motion that respects bandwidth and battery life.

    Asset weight budgets
  3. 03

    Accessibility

    Colour tokens built to WCAG contrast, legible type and a reduced-motion version of every animation.

    Accessibility checks in the brand check
  4. 04

    Inclusive design

    Imagery and language guidance written and reviewed with the people it portrays.

    Inclusive imagery & language guide
  5. 05

    Honest ESG claims

    Specific claims, each matched to evidence and checked against the rules in every market you operate in.

    Claims library & review

Page weight budgets

Budgets for fonts, images, scripts and motion are set with your team and enforced by the brand check.

Illustrative

Unbudgeted launch page

With weight budgets

FontsImagesScriptsMotion

Measurement

Brand health, tracked from use to value.

We agree a few measures and a baseline before launch and track them in one dashboard. The example below is illustrative.

  1. 01

    Consistency

    Are teams using the guidelines?

    Brand check pass rateTemplate adoptionOff-brand reports

  2. 02

    Efficiency

    Is it faster and cheaper to be on brand?

    Time to marketAsset reuseCost per asset

  3. 03

    Perception

    Do people notice and remember?

    AwarenessDistinctivenessConsideration

  4. 04

    Value

    What is it worth to the business?

    Pricing powerRetentionBrand contribution, modelled with finance

Brand health · Your brand Illustrative
  • Brand check pass rate

    Index 118

    ▲ vs baseline

  • Template adoption

    Index 131

    ▲ vs baseline

  • Time to market

    Index 84

    ▼ faster

  • Distinctiveness

    Index 107

    ▲ vs baseline

Consistency by market

MarketCheck passTemplate useDistinctiveness
Market 01 90 of 100 80 of 100 60 of 100
Market 02 80 of 100 90 of 100 70 of 100
Market 03 60 of 100 70 of 100 50 of 100
Market 04 90 of 100 60 of 100 80 of 100
Market 05 70 of 100 50 of 100 60 of 100
Market 06 50 of 100 60 of 100 40 of 100

Indexed against the pre-launch baseline (100). Figures are illustrative, not client results.

How we work with you

The terms we work on.

Answers to the questions procurement, legal, IT and security teams ask before they sign.

A leadership team in discussion around a table in natural light
  • 01

    Work you own

    What we make for you is yours once it is paid for. Tools we already had stay ours, and you get a free, permanent licence to use them.

  • 02

    Security from day one

    An NDA before discovery, least-privilege access, your single sign-on where available and data kept in regions agreed in writing.

  • 03

    Governance built in

    Decision records, clear owners and a release schedule, so your team can run the brand without us.

  • 04

    Independent tool choices

    Every model and tool choice is made on test results, documented and reversible.

  • 05

    Accessible by default

    Contrast, legibility and reduced motion are written into the guidelines and checked on every asset.

  • 06

    One accountable team

    A named lead answers for the work from first call to rollout, with the same team throughout.

Services & packages

Brand services, bought alone or together.

Each service is scoped on its own. Enquire about one, or add several to a brief and tell us which engagement package suits you.

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Not sure what you need? Describe the problem

How to buy

  1. 01Pick services. Enquire about one, or add several to a brief.
  2. 02Choose a package. A sprint, a fixed project or an ongoing team.
  3. 03Send the brief. We reply within one working day.

Browse by category

Timelines are typical. Every quote follows a written scope.

01Strategy & foundation

5 services
Typical timeline: 2–3 weeks

Brand audit & diagnostic

A review of what works, what has gone off-brand and what it costs you, ending in a ranked list of fixes.

What’s included

  • Stakeholder and customer interviews
  • Touchpoint and competitor audit
  • Brand health scorecard
  • Prioritised recommendations
  • Entry point
  • Fixed scope

Best forTeams that sense a brand problem but have not yet named it

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Typical timeline: 3–5 weeks

Brand foundation & positioning

Purpose, positioning, values and principles in plain words, tested against decisions you have already faced.

What’s included

  • Leadership interviews and working sessions
  • Positioning statement with proof
  • Values written as decision principles
  • One-page brand foundation
  • Leadership-led
  • Rebrand
  • New venture

Best forLeadership teams that each describe the brand differently

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Typical timeline: 4–6 weeks

Growth strategy

Your next best customers and the market gaps competitors leave open, ranked into a plan your team can run.

What’s included

  • Market and category map
  • Next-best-customer ranking
  • Competitor gap map
  • Now, next, later roadmap
  • Evidence first
  • Workshop-led

Best forBrands choosing their next segment, market or category

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Typical timeline: 3–6 weeks

Customer & market research

Interviews, surveys and desk research that show what customers value and why they buy, scoped to the decision you face.

What’s included

  • Research plan and recruitment
  • In-depth customer interviews
  • Quantitative survey
  • Insight report with implications
  • Qualitative
  • Quantitative

Best forDecisions that need customer evidence first

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Typical timeline: 2–4 weeks

Brand narrative & messaging

The story linking what you believe to what you sell, in three lengths, with messages and proof for each audience.

What’s included

  • Narrative in three lengths
  • Messaging house by audience
  • Proof points and claims check
  • Sales and leadership versions
  • Verbal
  • Sales enablement

Best forTeams that tell the story differently in every room

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02Identity & expression

6 services
Typical timeline: 6–10 weeks

Logo & identity system

Logo, colour, type, layout and imagery designed as one kit and shown on your touchpoints before you choose.

What’s included

  • Two or three directions on your touchpoints
  • Logo suite and clearspace rules
  • Colour and type systems with tokens
  • Launch templates
  • New brand
  • Rebrand
  • Figma

Best forNew ventures, and brands whose identity no longer fits the business

Explore Brand Identity
Typical timeline: 4–6 weeks

Identity refresh

An updated identity that keeps what people already recognise and fixes what slows your team down.

What’s included

  • Equity audit of current assets
  • Refined mark, colour and type
  • Updated core templates
  • Transition plan
  • Evolution
  • Keeps equity

Best forEstablished brands that need to look current without starting over

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Typical timeline: 3–5 weeks

Verbal identity & tone of voice

Voice, tone, vocabulary and the words you never use, written as rules with examples so anyone can write on brand.

What’s included

  • Voice principles and tone range
  • Lexicon and words to avoid
  • Before-and-after rewrites
  • Writing workshop for your team
  • Verbal
  • Guidelines

Best forBrands that look consistent but sound like five companies

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Typical timeline: 4–8 weeks

Motion & sonic identity

How the brand moves and sounds: timing, transitions and an audio signature for product, video and events.

What’s included

  • Motion principles and timing tokens
  • Logo animation and transitions
  • Sonic logo and sound palette
  • Lottie and video templates
  • Motion
  • Audio

Best forBrands that live on screen, in product, video or events

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Typical timeline: 6–12 weeks

Packaging design

Packaging designed for the shelf and the unboxing, with structures, dielines and artwork rules for a whole range.

What’s included

  • Range architecture and hierarchy
  • Structural and graphic design
  • Artwork templates and dielines
  • Print and production handover
  • Physical
  • Product range

Best forConsumer brands launching or refreshing a product range

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Typical timeline: 3–5 weeks

Brand guidelines

One searchable, versioned reference for your identity, with rules and examples for everyone who works on the brand.

What’s included

  • Guidelines website or PDF
  • Do and do-not examples
  • Downloadable asset library
  • Walkthrough for your team
  • Kept current

Best forTeams and agencies producing work on the brand every week

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03Systems & portfolio

5 services
Typical timeline: 6–12 weeks

Design tokens & components

Colour, type, space and motion as named values, and the shared components built from them, exported to design tools and code.

What’s included

  • Token set in Figma variables and code
  • Core component library with states
  • Accessibility check on every component
  • Release notes and versioning
  • One source
  • Product and marketing
  • Figma
  • Storybook

Best forOrganisations where product and marketing rebuild the same parts

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Typical timeline: 4–8 weeks

Template systems

Templates for decks, social posts, email, landing pages and print that stay on brand without a designer.

What’s included

  • Template audit by volume
  • Templates in Figma, Office and your CMS
  • Variation rules for campaigns and markets
  • Training for the people who use them
  • Self-serve

Best forTeams producing high volumes of routine content

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Typical timeline: 4–8 weeks

Brand architecture

Which brands you carry, how they relate and the role of each, with the model chosen on evidence and trade-offs recorded.

What’s included

  • Portfolio audit
  • Architecture model and decision record
  • Relationship and lockup rules
  • Test for adding new brands
  • Portfolio
  • Evidence first

Best forPortfolios where customers confuse offerings or every launch starts a naming debate

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Typical timeline: 3–6 weeks

Naming & nomenclature

Names for companies, products, tiers and features, with screening and rules for naming the next one.

What’s included

  • Naming strategy and criteria
  • Long list to shortlist
  • Language and preliminary trademark checks for your counsel
  • Nomenclature rules
  • Naming
  • Repeatable

Best forNew products, new ventures and portfolios with no naming logic

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Typical timeline: 6–10 weeks

M&A brand integration

A phased plan for bringing an acquired or merged brand into your portfolio, designed to keep its customers and equity.

What’s included

  • Equity and overlap assessment
  • Integration model options
  • Phased migration plan
  • Launch and internal communications
  • M&A
  • Phased

Best forCompanies after an acquisition or merger

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04Brand AI tools

4 services
Typical timeline: 6–10 weeks

Brand-tuned image models

Image models fine-tuned on your identity, so generated images start on brand. The model is yours once it is paid for.

What’s included

  • Rights-checked training set
  • Fine-tuned model and evaluation set
  • Style and prompt presets
  • Deployment in your cloud accounts
  • You own the model
  • Hugging Face
  • PyTorch
  • Replicate

Best forBrands producing large volumes of imagery across markets

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Typical timeline: 4–8 weeks

Brand check

Automated checks of colour, logo use, type and tone on every asset, flagging what is off-brand and suggesting the fix.

What’s included

  • Brand rules written as tests
  • Plugin for your design tools
  • API for your content pipelines
  • Output log and reporting
  • Automated review
  • Figma

Best forTeams and agencies where review queues slow everything down

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Typical timeline: 6–10 weeks

Asset generation pipeline

Campaign variants, market versions and formats made from one approved master, with a named person approving before release.

What’s included

  • Source-to-variant pipeline
  • Resizing and localisation
  • Named reviewer sign-off
  • Provenance record for every asset
  • Volume
  • Named approver

Best forCampaigns that run in many sizes, languages and markets

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Typical timeline: 4–6 weeks

Voice-aware copy assistant

An AI writing assistant that follows your voice, vocabulary and words to avoid, inside the tools your team already uses.

What’s included

  • Voice rules as a tested prompt set
  • Evaluation against your best examples
  • Integration with your writing tools
  • Automatic checks and logging
  • Verbal
  • Automatic checks
  • Anthropic
  • OpenAI
  • Google Gemini

Best forTeams writing high volumes of product, sales or support copy

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05Programmes & operations

4 services
Typical timeline: 16–24 weeks

Complete brand programme

Strategy, identity, brand systems and AI tools, run by one team on one plan through to rollout.

What’s included

  • Engagement director and capability leads
  • Foundation, identity and brand system in sequence
  • Governance with your steering group
  • Rollout plan across markets
  • Rebrand
  • Merger
  • New venture

Best forRebrands, mergers and new ventures that need every piece at once

Typical timeline: 3–6 weeks

Brand launch & rollout

The first months of a new brand: internal launch, team training, touchpoint rollout and a review after go-live.

What’s included

  • Internal launch kit
  • Training for teams and agencies
  • Touchpoint rollout tracker
  • First-month review
  • Launch
  • Adoption

Best forBrands about to go live that want adoption to stick

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Typical timeline: Ongoing · monthly

Brand office

An embedded brand team after launch: governance, templates and campaigns, with guidelines kept current month by month.

What’s included

  • Guidelines editor and designers
  • Request queue with agreed response times
  • Monthly governance review
  • Quarterly guidelines update
  • Ongoing
  • Embedded

Best forBrands that want a standing brand team without hiring one

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Typical timeline: Ongoing · monthly

Brand AI operations

Your brand AI tools run as a managed service: models retuned, checks updated and every output logged.

What’s included

  • Model monitoring and retuning
  • Updates to checks and evaluation sets
  • Usage and quality reporting
  • Named AI lead and brand reviewer
  • Managed service
  • Ongoing

Best forBrands with high content volumes across many markets and teams

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Your brief

Tick “Add to brief” on any service, choose a package, then continue. Or enquire about one service directly.

How we work with you

Ways to engage, from a question to an RFQ.

Ask a quick question, send a project brief or issue a formal RFQ. The lead for the work reads each one in full, and any services already in your brief go with it.

Or book a thirty-minute call

What are you sending?

  1. 01

    About 2 minutes4 required answers

    For a first conversation, a press request or anything that does not need a scope yet.

    You get A reply from a named lead

  2. 02Recommended

    About 8 minutes5 short steps

    Goals, audiences, a budget band and timing, so our first reply can outline the work.

    You get Options and a first scope after one call

  3. 03

    About 15 minutesYour documents attached

    Your documents, deadlines and the procurement and security rules the work must meet.

    You get Receipt confirmed and a named bid lead

How it is priced

Each package shows its pricing model. Work starts once a written scope and quote are agreed.

  • Typical length
    1–3 weeks
    Pricing
    Fixed fee
  • Typical length
    4–12 weeks
    Pricing
    Fixed price
  • Typical length
    3–9 months
    Pricing
    Fixed price per milestone
  • Typical length
    Ongoing · 6-month minimum
    Pricing
    Monthly fee
  • Typical length
    6–18 months
    Pricing
    Programme fee · by statement of work
  • Typical length
    Ongoing · 3-month minimum
    Pricing
    Time & materials
Compare what each package includes
What each package includes and who it suits
PackageEvery engagement includesBest for
SprintA short, fixed-scope engagement that answers one defined question.
  • Scope and outcome agreed before day one
  • A senior lead plus the specialists needed
  • A working review every week
  • A decision-ready answer or prototype
Discovery, a diagnostic, a prototype or a decision you need to make soon
ProjectA defined scope, delivered for a fixed price.
  • Statement of work with deliverables and acceptance criteria
  • A named project lead and a fixed team
  • A shared plan with dated checkpoints
  • Source files, yours once paid for
Work you can describe up front: an identity, a platform or a set of tools
MilestoneA larger build in phases you approve and pay for one at a time.
  • Phases with their own scope, output and sign-off
  • A go or no-go review at every gate
  • Re-planning between phases as you learn
  • Payment tied to accepted milestones
Programmes too large for one contract, where you want control at each step
RetainerReserved monthly capacity to run, improve and extend what we built.
  • A reserved block of team time every month
  • Agreed response times for requests and fixes
  • A monthly review and a rolling backlog
  • Planned improvements as well as upkeep
Live brands and products that need a steady team without hiring one
EnterpriseA multi-workstream programme with a dedicated team, governance and agreed service levels.
  • An engagement director and a steering group
  • A dedicated team across several workstreams
  • Service levels, reporting and a risk register
  • Security, legal and procurement reviews in the plan
Large organisations running change across markets, portfolios or business units
SquadA dedicated team that works inside your stack and sprint schedule.
  • Named specialists matched to your roadmap
  • Works in your tools, meetings and backlog
  • Scale the team up or down each month
  • Knowledge transfer built in from week one
Teams with a clear roadmap that need more senior people quickly

Questions

Brand Design questions, answered.

Anything else? Ask the leads who would run your programme.

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Start with Brand Foundation if your positioning is not settled; it is the cheapest stage to change course. If it already works, start with Brand Identity or Growth Strategy.

Yes. Each of the six is scoped and priced as its own sprint, and its outputs are built to work with the other five when you add them.

Both. You can refresh an existing brand, keeping what customers recognise and tightening the rules around it, or build a new one from the foundation up.

Typically four to six months from discovery to first rollout, longer for multi-market portfolios. A single capability sprint usually runs three to ten weeks. We scope it with you before anything starts.

Agents handle research, variants and brand checks; people make the decisions. Agents group interviews and market data into sourced themes, draft versions from approved parts and check each asset against your rules. Brand AI Tools builds these for your brand.

Yes. Models, pipelines and logs can run in your cloud accounts under your security policies. If that is not possible, we agree data handling in writing before you share any asset.

Yes. We can build the guidelines, templates and checks while your agencies produce the work, so partners stay on brand without sending everything through us.

We plan for them from the start. You get an NDA before discovery, a statement of work for each phase and early answers to your security questionnaire, so reviews run alongside the work.

Everything we make for you, once it is paid for. That covers source files, tokens, templates, guidelines, model weights and logs, delivered into your accounts and documented so your team can run them.

Tell us what you need built.

You will speak to a lead who would run the work, and get a straight answer on fit.

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Three ways to start

Every engagement starts with a written scope and a quote agreed before work begins.

Choose one of the three ways above