We have the tools to help build your brand
We don’t like to be boxed into disciplines, but mix all the tools to come up with the ideal approach, bringing a blend of brand fundamentals, strategic design, deep user research and digital craft to each project.
Brand Building
From brand positioning and brand architecture to key messaging, we build new brands and refresh existing ones to drive relevance. We often collaborate or cross-over with creative partners to start bringing the brand to life.
Brand Fundamentals, Workshops & Roadmaps
From DNA sprints with founders, to sharpening beliefs & reinventing brand houses with the entire marketing organization.
Brand Positioning, Brand Architecture & Naming
From repositioning some of the world’s largest brands to adjusting positioning and naming for new markets or regions.
Cultural & Ethnographic Research, Trends & Semiotics
From crash courses in cultural grammar to understanding how your brand can, will and should play in a new context.
Comms Architecture, Key Messaging & Creative Strategy
From flowing positioning through to messaging hierarchies, employee engagement, creative strategy, briefs & even content thinking.
Brand Growth
Whether it’s a new market or new vertical, we work with your team on the puzzle of “fit”, blending deep cultural, category & user research to shape positioning, messaging and roadmaps for growth.
Culture x Market x Product fit research
From deconstructing the Mexican identity around food to entering the weight loss industry in France in 2026, these are the puzzles we love to unpack!
Audience Understanding & Segmentation
Who are your audiences? What’s your addressable market? Who SHOULD they be? Who might trade up to premium tiers? These are the analysis questions we love.
Product research for new market expansion & ongoing optimization models
What needs to change about your app, experience, product or service when heading to Germany? LATAM? APAC? How will you tweak for success along the way?
New market positioning, messaging & creative strategy approach
What’s the right use case or occasion for a new product? Best way to expand into a new vertical? Move positioning into creative strategy? Also up our alley!
Innovation & Design
We love to connect the dots between the brand promise and the product experience via innovation research, roadmapping, early stage concept design & user testing, and future-proofing for now and down the road.
Signals, trends & innovation research
We always step back to understand the human context, and we apply fieldwork, expert networks, futures and speculative design, and more.
UX/UI research, journey models and CX mapping
We do extensive user research, journey and experience mapping, as well as prototyping to help clients’ shape current & future product strategy.
Concept development, experimentation & testing
We blend brand skills, culture, strategic design and research to develop product and service concepts, test them and iterate continuously.
Roadmapping and innovation workshops
We package future insight, current context and brand knowledge into workshops that go from tomorrow’s trends to product roadmaps for the future.
strategists love shapes
We arrive at ideas with a divergent, convergent conceptual framework
We use a loosely adapted double-diamond approach. Going wide on meaning, beliefs, context, cultural grammar, synthesizing insights to define a plan/ positioning, developing and delivering the brand experience, and iterating to bring everyone on board.