Services

Six ways into the brand system.

Each service below is a scoped, dated engagement — not a subscription funnel. Most clients start with a positioning study or a full brand system and add a governance retainer once the specimen board is live. Pricing is quoted in CAD and depends on company size and existing material.

Identity board with visual mark and colour specimens pinned for review
Specimen 03 — Identity BoardVisual Mark

SVC 01

Brand Discovery & Positioning

CAD 3,800 – 7,200

A positioning study that establishes category, audience and the one claim competitors cannot credibly make. We interview leadership, audit every existing touchpoint, and run a structured competitive read before drafting a positioning statement the whole company can repeat without a script. This is the foundation stage — every later brand voice and visual mark decision is checked against it, and most engagements begin here because a shaky positioning study makes everything built afterward wobble.

SVC 02

Verbal Identity & Brand Voice

CAD 3,200 – 6,000

A verbal identity guide covering vocabulary, sentence rhythm, tone range across support, sales and leadership contexts, and a retired-phrases list so the brand voice stops drifting between departments. We workshop real examples — an actual support reply, an actual proposal email — and rewrite them live, so the guide reads like decisions already made rather than abstract advice nobody applies six weeks later.

Type specimen sheet showing Fraunces and Plus Jakarta Sans pairings for a brand voice guide
Specimen 06 — Type SpecimenVerbal Identity
Desk laid out with a printed brand guideline document and colour swatches
Specimen 11 — Guideline DeskMark System

SVC 03

Visual Identity & Mark Systems

CAD 5,500 – 12,000

A full visual mark system: logo and lock-up variations, colour palette with contrast-tested pairings, type system, grid logic and an application library covering site, deck, packaging and signage. Every mark is checked against a plain noisy-feed test — shrunk to a thumbnail, placed next to five competitors — before it is approved. The deliverable is a documented system any designer can apply correctly, not a single hero file only we understand.

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Research, direction and governance.

SVC 04

AI-Enhanced Brand Research Sprint

CAD 1,800 – 3,400

A one-to-two-week sprint that uses AI tools to compress competitor audits, category-language mapping and audience research that would otherwise take a small team a month to gather manually. Every finding is reviewed and interpreted by a human strategist before it shapes a single recommendation — the sprint speeds up the reading, not the judgment. Useful as a standalone diagnostic before committing to a full brand system, or as the research base feeding a positioning study already underway.

SVC 05

Content Direction & Touchpoint Mapping

CAD 2,600 – 5,200

A touchpoint map that shows exactly where the brand system applies — website, proposal deck, packaging, social presence, email signature — paired with content direction covering what each touchpoint should say and in what order. This closes the gap between "we have a brand guideline" and "our brand actually looks consistent," because it tells a busy team precisely which rule governs which surface, with no interpretation required.

SVC 06

Brand Governance Retainer

CAD 900 – 2,200 / month

Ongoing brand governance: a monthly review of new marketing, sales and product material against the specimen board, quarterly system audits, and direct access for quick sign-off before something ships. Retainers exist because a brand system decays the moment nobody is checking it — new hires improvise, agencies drift, and within a year the mark and voice have quietly diverged again without anyone deciding that on purpose.

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