Brand Studio

Enterprise-grade work. Honestly priced.

The same craft marquee agencies are known for — at a price local businesses can actually commit to.

Brand Identity Systems Brand Books Premium Homepage Treatments

Foundation-first.

We build the brand, the lead flow, and the operations beneath your website first — because everything visible compounds on what's underneath it.

Brand Identity

Complete Brand Identity Development System

Three productized tiers for greenfield brands launching from zero — logo system, voice, brand book, source files. You own everything on delivery.

See a live brand book — Olive Avenue Coffee →

Essential

Solo professional / single-audience

$5,000 one-time

Logo system 60 files (3 layouts × 4 colors × 5 formats)
Voice guide Lean voice guide (1–2 sentences per attribute)
Brand book One-pager brand reference card
Revisions 1 round
Delivery 3 weeks
Audience layers Single audience layer

Best for: Solo professional / single-service business.

Start with Essential

Complete

Standard local-brand scope

$7,500 one-time

Logo system 120 files (5 layouts × 4 colors × 5 formats + utility variants)
Voice guide Full voice + content pillars guide
Brand book 20-page brand book PDF
Revisions 2 rounds
Delivery 4 weeks
Audience layers Up to 2 audience layers

Best for: Most local brands — recommended default.

Start with Complete

Premium

Complex single entities, multi-audience

$10,000 one-time

Logo system 160 files (6 layouts + sub-mark variants × 4 colors × 5 formats + extensive utility)
Voice guide Full voice + content pillars + sample copy + tone-of-voice playbook
Brand book 30-page brand book PDF + application mockup gallery
Revisions 3 rounds
Delivery 5 weeks
Audience layers 3+ audience layers

Bonus Founder-narrative copy module included.

Best for: Complex single entities (multi-location, B2B + B2C).

Start with Premium

You own everything we build for you.

Every brand asset, every editable source file, every design master — yours on delivery. No license restrictions. No buy-out fees. No modification fees. If you ever leave, your brand walks with you.

All we ask in return: the right to feature your work in our portfolio and case studies. That's it.

Already have a brand?

Bringing your own brand can be more cost-effective. Contact us to go over pricing for partial brand work — logo refresh, voice update, asset library expansion — quoted to your needs.

Multiple brands?

Have multiple brands or a parent-DBA structure? We handle multi-entity families. Contact us for a tailored quote.

Live demo · Premium Brand Identity Build

Olive Avenue Coffee.

A complete brand identity system for a fictional Tower District specialty roaster — built to show prospects exactly what arrives at the end of a Premium Brand Identity engagement. Logo system, color palette, two-family typography, voice + tone, applied identity across letterpress packaging, business cards, blade sign, and social.

Eight sections of agency-monograph layout. Four bespoke photographs. The kind of artifact you keep on the conference-room shelf and show new hires on their first day.

View the live demo →

Premium Homepage Treatments

A family of signature homepage designs — pick the creative direction that fits your brand. Each treatment is a distinct visual language, hand-built once and customized per client. Sits on top of any base website build.

+$5,000 one-time, on top of any website build

Industry rate: $10,000–$100,000+ Comparable craft from non-AI agencies. We can offer this price because AI compresses delivery time — and we believe those savings should flow to you.

Available with any tier · Foundation, Growth, or Domination

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Cinematic

Sticky-stack chapters + horizontal scroll-jack rail + cinematic imagery.

A premium editorial homepage with sticky-stack chapters that slide up like a deck of cards, a horizontal scroll-jacked rail with diagonal/wave motion, animated ambient background, and cinematic hero imagery. Heritage + storytelling brands. Built for businesses that want their site to feel like the most polished one in town.

Best for

Heritage brands, storytelling-led businesses, premium service operations.

See Cinematic live — this is the Shockwave homepage →

Available now

Editorial

Long-scroll magazine layout — dramatic typography, pull quotes, asymmetric grids.

A homepage that reads like a Wallpaper or Cereal magazine spread. Oversized editorial typography, asymmetric multi-column grids, drop caps, dramatic pull quotes, magazine-style sectioning. Built for thought-leadership, professional services, and brands whose voice IS the brand.

Best for

Lawyers, consultants, financial advisors, professional services, content-heavy businesses.

See Editorial demo →

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Kinetic Type

Oversized typography that animates as the hero — words fade, transform, replace each other.

A typographic hero where the words ARE the animation. Big bold letterforms transition, fade, and replace each other on a slow rhythm. Quiet but commanding. Built for brands where the message is the product — founders, consultants, single-person practitioners.

Best for

Solo founders, consultants, single-practitioner businesses, brands selling clarity over feature count.

See Kinetic Type demo →

Available now

Atmospheric

Large looping video / cinemagraph hero with overlaid text.

A homepage anchored by a hero-sized looping video or cinemagraph of your actual space — kitchen flames, gym floor at golden hour, salon chair, real brand activity in slow motion. Quiet but immersive. The space IS the story.

Best for

Restaurants, gyms, salons, barbershops, hospitality — businesses where the physical environment matters.

See Atmospheric demo →

Available now

Bento Grid

Apple-style modular grid — each tile is a self-contained feature, benefit, or proof.

A homepage built as a modular grid of self-contained tiles — each one a feature, benefit, proof point, or piece of work. Inspired by Apple, Linear, and Notion product pages. Dense but scannable. Built for businesses with many services or many proof points to organize.

Best for

Feature-rich businesses, multi-service operations, SaaS-style positioning, agencies showing portfolio breadth.

See Bento Grid demo →

No two clients get the same look.

Even within the same treatment family, every client's homepage is customized: bespoke copy, custom imagery (Optimus-generated tile artwork specific to your brand), per-industry pacing, and an editorial pass. The pattern is the family; the execution is yours.

Every treatment is a live page you can click into.

Editorial. Atmospheric. Bento. Kinetic. Cinematic. Each one a complete demo, ready to walk a prospect through.

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Frequently asked

What people want to know first.

Do you build brand identity for businesses launching from zero?

Yes — that's the majority of the Premium Brand Identity Build work. We've taken founders from "I have an idea and a name I haven't fully committed to" to "here is your full brand system, ready to print" in six to eight weeks. The Essential and Complete tiers also work for greenfield brands at lighter scope.

What's the difference between Essential, Complete, and Premium?

Essential ($5,000) is for early-stage brands that need a working identity — logo, palette, typography, basic voice. Complete ($7,500) adds brand book, applied-identity mockups, and source files. Premium ($10,000) is the full agency-monograph treatment — the Olive Avenue Coffee demo is the artifact you'd receive. See the tier comparison above for the line-item breakdown.

Does a Premium Homepage Treatment require a fresh website?

Not always. If your current site is on a modern platform and the audit clears it, we can apply the treatment to your existing build. If you need a fresh build to carry it, see the Websites page for build options. Most prospects bundling a treatment with a new build land somewhere between $10K and $15K all-in.

Can I commission a brand book without a website?

Yes. The brand book is a standalone deliverable. Many clients commission identity work for a rebrand, an acquisition, or a spin-off product — sometimes years before the website work happens. The brand book is yours when delivered, regardless of whether you ever engage us on web.

Who owns the brand work when you're done?

You do — fully. Logo files, source vectors, the brand book PDF, and the rights to reproduce all of it. We do not retain license or usage restrictions on the identity systems we build. If you ever leave, you take everything.

How long does a Premium Brand Identity Build take?

Six to eight weeks for the full Premium engagement. Essential and Complete run shorter — three to four weeks typical. We don't compress these timelines further; the work needs space to mature and the conversations need room to find the right answer.

Brand work pairs with a website and a monthly tier — or stands alone.

Most clients bundle it with their website and tier. Some just want the brand work — and that's fine. You don't have to buy the whole system to get it.

Start a brand conversation See monthly tiers →