NewLaunch Week: your brand and website, live in about a week

We build brands that
create gravity.

Gravity is the pull a brand has when it knows exactly what it is. The right people find you, and you stop chasing them.

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Some of the people we’ve worked with

IBMBiltmoreOKC Thunder
PlantdArcadia BeverageFedup Foods
PepsiCoYWCAExplore Asheville
Living RoofsThe Gordon CoCenter for Craft
Whole FoodsAfarPenland School of Craft
Artisan StudiosMountain BizWorksBlood Cancer United

Ways to work with us

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The Vision Accelerator

While the avalanche of change is happening, the people who get buried are the ones holding on to their gear. In business, the gear is whatever you’re wondering if you still need, or feels heavy. This is ninety minutes to question all of it, followed up with a comprehensive brief two weeks later and a human conversation about it.

$3,000 for a company · $1,850 for one person three to four weeks

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Launch Week

You have the vision. You need it out in the world, and you can’t spend six months getting there. We shape the message and the look, then build and launch the site with you.

Most projects $6.5K to $20K · about a weekSee what’s included

Full scope

Brand Transformation

A brand is a million things working together, from how you talk about yourself to how your team shows up on a hard day. This is where our team is at its best: helping a company make the step change it’s after, including the employee culture side most brand projects skip. It’s the work we’ve built our careers on, and it often starts with a Vision Accelerator.

  • Strategy & Positioning
  • Identity Systems
  • Culture & Internal Adoption
  • Innovation
  • Design & Content
  • Thought Leadership
Scoped togetherSee how it works

Recent work · Launch Week

A campaign with a date that couldn’t move, rebuilt in one weekend.

Esther Manheimer with Governor Josh Stein, with the Esther Manheimer for Mayor logo
“I can’t believe what you’ve done for me and in such a short period of time.”
Esther Manheimer

Esther Manheimer’s re-election campaign was already running and needed to start telling her story right away. Over one weekend we gave her team a communications strategy, a new look, additional logo variations, photography, brand guidelines and a custom website built on WordPress. After launch, the campaign sent us every piece of marketing to review before it went out.

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Case studies

Brands and sites we’ve built

All work

How we think

Brand work that goes all the way through.

Identity

Finding the center that everything else you do gets built on.

Embodiment

Getting your team to live the brand when things get hard, not just describe it in a deck.

Activation

What you ship and how you show up. We do it last, and it goes faster because of that.

Launch Week is activation for founders whose center is already clear. If yours isn’t, we’ll say so and start with the Vision Accelerator instead.

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Why we work this way

Create enduring value.

“You can tell the vase made by someone who loved making it from the one that came off a factory line.”
Nicky Balachandran, said on age episode 15

That’s the standard we hold. You work directly with us from the first call to launch.

More about us

age, the podcast

An experiment in saying the real thing.

We make the show long and unpolished on purpose. It’s a bet that people are tired of watching performances and want to hear someone mean it. We keep score in public, including the things we got wrong.

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Recording an episode of age in the 40 Hearts studio