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Brand World

If you’d rather I did it with you. Whether your brand needs writing down or building from nothing, it’s the same process. We work out on the call how much of it you need, and you get one fixed price in writing before anything starts.

Always included: your brand written down properly — what you’re for, how you sound, how you look — with your own best work as the reference and instructions built for the things you write every week, so nothing starts from a blank box. Installed on your own systems, tested on your real jobs, with a plain manual and thirty days of support to make sure it’s running as planned.

Added when you need it: the identity drawn, a site you own, built to be found.

You keep everything; nothing stops working if you stop paying me. Three weeks for the system alone; six with a site.

What moves the price: whether the identity has to be drawn, whether there’s a site and how many pages, and how many people will use it.

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What it actually is

The whole thing, on one foundation

I uncover and define what makes your brand yours, and turn it into a clear foundation. From there I define the visual world — the references, the rules and the reasoning behind them — and build the assets and templates that work from it. The site is designed on top of the same foundation, so it makes the offer obvious and moves the right people toward getting in touch. The AI system is built last, on decisions already made, so everything it produces afterwards still sounds and looks like yours.

This is the whole of the method, steps 00 through 08, run in order and handed over. It is an investment that compounds: the foundation is decided once and written down as rules the system follows, so nothing starts from a blank box again and every hour after it goes into making the work better.

How it runs

Nine steps, one hand

Three weeks for the system alone; six with a site. Read the method →

What exists afterwards

Things you can point at

Your brand foundation, your visual direction and its assets, the website, and the AI system that keeps them consistent.

Your foundation, written down

brand-foundation.json and brand-foundation.md. What you’re for, what you’re against, the pillars, who it’s actually for, how you sound, the words you never use. One file a machine reads, one a person reads.

Your voice, taken from your own writing

Your rhythm, your punctuation, whether you say I or we, whether you hedge. This is what makes the difference between AI that sounds like you and AI that sounds like everyone.

Your visual world as data

visual-world.md and tokens.json. The palette and scale as values, which is what stops a brand drifting two years from now.

Your type, licensed and logged

typography.md and a licence ledger saying where every face came from, what it permits, and who has to buy it.

A custom skill you run yourself

Trained on your own brand voice, on your own account, so your writing keeps sounding like you without me in the room.

The prompt library and the recordings

prompt-library.md, plus short walkthroughs of every task, yours to keep and watch in eighteen months when you’ve forgotten.

The test

If the logo disappeared

If the logo disappeared, would the brand still feel like itself? If a competitor swapped its name into the website, would the work still make sense? If the answer is yes, the brand is not distinctive enough yet.

Who it’s for

Best suited to

Who it’s probably not for

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The guarantee

What you can hold me to

I keep going until it’s right. Show up, do the work, and if we haven’t landed something you’d use, I keep working until we have, at no extra charge.

The price doesn’t move. Fixed price, defined scope. Overruns are my problem.

You own all of it. On final payment: editable files, open-licence fonts, and nothing that stops working if you stop paying me.

On being early

More of me than you will get later

Founding rate: 10% off Brand World for my first three clients, in exchange for a case study.

To protect the quality of the work, I take two clients at a time.

A brand that can keep moving without becoming generic.

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