— BRAND STORY CONSULTING
Stories as
infrastructure.
A senior advisory engagement for organizations whose narrative has outgrown their ability to tell it. We come in, see clearly, and help you build the story architecture that supports the next decade.
— The Premise
Most brand
problems are
story problems.
A messy positioning deck, a website that won't land, leadership talking past each other on what the company is actually about — these are not marketing issues. They are unresolved story.
We work with founders, CEOs, and executive teams who suspect their story is bigger than their current articulation of it. Engagements typically run 8 to 16 weeks and produce a single source-of-truth document — the story architecture — from which every downstream asset is built.
This is consultancy, not creative production. The deliverable is clarity. What you do with it is up to you.
— Engagement
Three phases. One source of truth.
01
Listening & Diagnosis.
— Weeks 01 - 04
We start by listening — to founders, to leadership, to customers, to the room. We surface the story you're already telling, the one you think you're telling, and the gap between them.
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— Principal interviews & leadership listening sessions
— Customer & stakeholder voice review
— Competitive narrative landscape
— Diagnostic memo & story-gap analysis
02
Architecture & Articulation.
— Weeks 05 - 10
We build the story architecture: the throughline, the supporting beats, the language, the proof. Every claim is interrogated. Every line is earned. The result is a document leadership can speak from with conviction.
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— Throughline & narrative architecture
— Voice & language system
— Hierarchy of proof points & signature stories
— Working drafts & principal review cycles
03
Hand-off & Activation.
— Weeks 11 - 16
We hand off the architecture to the people who will live with it — internal teams, agencies, the leaders themselves — and stay close enough to make sure it lands. Optional production support available through the studio.
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— Internal rollout & team training
— Application briefs (web, deck, talks, hires)
— 90-day implementation support
— Optional: production handoff to the studio
— WHO IT'S FOR
If any of these sound familiar.
The inflection moment.
You're crossing a threshold — a major round, a new product line, a generational handoff — and the old story can't carry you. You need an articulation that fits where you're actually going.
The quiet giant.
You've built something real and significant, but the world's understanding of you hasn't caught up. The narrative is decades behind the company.
The fragmented voice.
Every team is telling a slightly different version of who you are. Marketing, sales, recruiting, leadership — each with their own framing. The cost is real, even if it doesn't show up on a dashboard.
The founder's dilemma.
The company is no longer just you, but the story still is. You need to extract what's in your head and build it into infrastructure others can carry.
— Begin
Ready to see your story clearly?
We take on a small number of consulting engagements each year. A strategy call is the first conversation.