Same work, sharper brand

Same work. Sharper brand. Nearly double the clients that convert.

A brand strategy and design studio for founder-led specialists in manufacturing and the built environment. We turn the quality of your work into the clients, projects and prices it deserves. One client grew revenue 48% in a year without changing a thing about the craft.

Free, with no obligation. We'll show you exactly where the gap is.

Opening a limited number of spaces this quarter
Why now

The right clients arrive at a specific moment.

Nobody books a brand studio out of idle curiosity. They come at the point where the distance between the work and the brand has become impossible to ignore. Usually it's one of these.

01

You quoted for a project you should have won, the prospect went cold, and you never found out why. You assumed it came down to price. It almost never does.

02

An architect or developer specified a competitor with weaker craft before you'd even spoken. They found the better-positioned studio first.

03

You lost a pitch or tender you should have won, and the way you presented was part of the reason.

04

You're moving upmarket, raising prices and targeting better clients, but the brand can't make that move with you as it stands.

05

You've invested heavily in your workshop, your craft or your product, and the brand alongside it now feels like it belongs to a smaller business.

06

Someone you respect told you straight that your digital presence doesn't match your reputation.

If any of those landed, you already know the problem is real.

The results

The work didn't change. The credibility did.

Every business we work with was already excellent at what they do. What changed was how clearly that came across, and what that did to their numbers.

Ayrton Bespoke
Premium timber windows & doors
15% → 21%
Enquiry-to-sale conversion, within six months
New brand
Launched and converting from day one
Padel Plus
Premium padel courts & facilities
+800%
Revenue growth in year one
+218%
Revenue growth in year two

The craft stayed the same. The positioning got sharper, and the brand started doing the selling.

Who we're for

Founder-led specialists doing exceptional work.

You're usually the founder, director or MD of a 2 to 15 person studio or workshop. You make the final call yourself, you're the expert in your field, and you're certain the brand isn't doing you justice.

Designers & Makers

Furniture, joinery, metalwork, glass and stone.

Bespoke kitchen makers

Premium, design-led work for residential and commercial clients.

Windows, doors & façades

Premium specialists in residential and high-end projects.

Design-led developers

Smaller operations with a clear design or sustainability point of view.

Specialist manufacturers

Technically excellent work that deserves a brand to match.

Where we start

Start with clarity, not a redesign.

Before any design work begins, we get sharp on what your brand stands for, who it's really for, and the strategic direction it needs to take. It's the fastest way for both of us to know we understand your world, and it's the right place to start working together.

The Clarity Sprint runs over two focused sessions. In the first, we go deep on your business, your market, and where you're being underestimated. In the second, we work through your positioning and direction. Afterwards we deliver two things: a Brand Strategy Summary that captures where you are and where you're headed, and a CRAFT Blueprint that maps the route to get there.

Investment
£3,500
Credited in full against any work that follows. The first payment toward your transformation, not a cost on top of it.
The guarantee
You leave sharper, or it's free. If you don't leave with a clearer understanding of your positioning and strategic direction than you walked in with, we refund it in full.
Who you'll work with

You'll work with Jamie directly.

For 12 years, every client came through word of mouth, with no paid advertising at all. We're now opening a limited number of spaces to founders we haven't met yet. That track record comes from one thing: getting positioning right for businesses like yours, consistently enough that clients send their peers.

You won't be passed to an account manager or handed down to a junior. Jamie works on every engagement personally, founder to founder, with someone who understands specialist work and the built environment from the inside.

Founder to founder. No account managers, no juniors.

Common questions

The questions founders usually ask.

Isn't this just a logo?
No. A logo is an output. The Clarity Sprint works on your positioning, the strategic foundation that decides whether your brand commands premium prices or competes on cost. Design follows once that's locked, and it lands far harder because of it.
Why not just build a new website?
You can, but a website built on unclear positioning is expensive decoration. You'll spend the budget and still have the same problem in better pixels. Get the positioning right first and the website becomes a tool that does commercial work from the day it launches.
I don't have time for this.
The Sprint is built around your schedule and takes a few hours of your time across two sessions. Set against the projects you're losing to weaker competitors with stronger brands, it pays for itself quickly.
How are you different from the agency that already let me down?
Most agencies start with how things look. We start with what your business stands for and who it's for, because that's the lever that moves pricing and wins the right clients. We also work only with specialist, founder-led businesses in your world, so you're never explaining your industry to a generalist.
An honest filter

We're not for everyone.

We'd rather be straight with you now than waste anyone's time.

  • Large corporates with a full in-house creative team. You already have the resource to do this internally.
  • Businesses after a cheap, fast refresh. That's the wrong fit for how we work and what we charge.
  • Generalist construction or trades without a design-led offer. Not the right match for what we do.
  • Anyone whose product or service isn't good enough yet. We won't paper over it with branding.

If you're still reading, we should talk.

Ready to make your brand do the work justice?

Book a free strategy call. In 30 minutes we'll show you where the gap between your work and your brand is costing you, and whether the Clarity Sprint is the right way to close it.

Free, with no obligation. The Clarity Sprint is £3,500, credited in full against any work that follows.

A brand strategy & design studio for specialist, founder-led businesses in design and the built environment.

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