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Brand Identity & Presence

Branding is not a logo. It is whether someone recognises you in a feed before they read your name, and whether what they find is consistent when they go looking. These three services are engaged separately — take the one you need now, or combine them. Each is scoped, priced and delivered on its own terms.

Branding is two different jobs that get treated as one. There is the decision about what you stand for and who you are for, which is positioning work and costs very little to get right. And there is the expression of it — identity, presence, the way it looks and sounds — which is expensive, and only worth doing once the first decision is settled.

We take on the second job, and we will say so when the first one has not been answered. A visual system built before you know which market you are serving is a system you will pay to rebuild. Where the positioning is already clear, the work here is making it recognisable and consistent everywhere it actually appears: on a phone screen, at sixteen pixels in a browser tab, in a document a client opens two years from now.

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Social Media Management

Ongoing monthly engagement

Consistent presence on the platforms where your buyers already spend attention. Strategy first, then a calendar we actually produce against, rather than posting whatever is left at the end of the month. This one runs continuously — it is the only branding service that does.

What's included

What you get

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Web Design

Fixed-scope project

The design for your site: structure, visual language and developer-ready files. Delivered as a standalone project and handed to whoever builds it — pair it with Web Development if you want us to build it too, or take the files elsewhere.

What's included

What you get

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Visual Brand Identity

One-off foundational project

The logo system, palette, type and rules everything else is built on. Usually the first thing to commission if it does not exist yet, because the other two services apply it rather than create it.

What's included

What you get

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Specialisms

Three separate engagements. They reinforce each other, and none of them requires the others to be useful.

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A publishing system with a point of view, judged on business outcomes rather than follower count.

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Design that survives contact with real traffic, real content and real conversion goals.

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A system that stays recognisable at every size, in every place it actually gets used.

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Common questions

The questions we are asked most often before an engagement starts.

Identity work, usually not. Positioning work, usually yes — and the two get confused. Deciding what you stand for and who you are for costs little and changes every subsequent decision. Commissioning a full visual system before you know which market you are serving means paying twice, because the identity will need to change when the answer arrives.

A design agency is judged on how the work looks. We are judged on whether it moves a commercial number, because the same team runs your acquisition afterwards. That constraint tends to produce more conservative, more functional design decisions — we are the ones who will have to make the ads work.

Far less often than agencies suggest. A rebrand is warranted when the identity actively misrepresents what you now sell, when it fails in the places it is most used, or when a merger or repositioning has left it meaningless. Being bored of your own logo is not on that list — your market has seen it a fraction as often as you have.

You do, on completion, including editable source files rather than exports alone. That includes design files, fonts licensed to you, and anything else needed to keep using the work without coming back to us. Withholding source files to guarantee repeat business is a common practice and not one we take part in.

Yes, and often the more useful engagement. Most guidelines are ignored because they are impractical rather than wrong — they specify colours that fail contrast requirements, or type scales that break on mobile. Making an existing system work in the places it actually gets used is usually better value than replacing it.

Next step

Tell us where growth is stalling

A discovery call, not a pitch. We will tell you where we think the gap actually is, and whether we are the right people to close it.