Your own brand agency
A brand strategy worth paying for.
Forty minutes of questions about your business. Get the brand strategy deck an agency would charge $75,000 for. The positioning, the message, the voice, the plan. Ready this afternoon.
- Agency
- $75,000+ and 8 to 16 weeks
- Brandstillery
- $500, once. Same day.
- No subscription. No retainer. 35 content sessions included, five post ideas each.
Every deck is saved. If yours comes back wrong, email us and we re-run it free.
You know your business. Saying it out loud is the hard part.
Writing it down so it lands takes a strategist, a writer, and a designer who all agree. That team costs more than the marketing does. So most owners settle for a logo and a guess.
Or they pay for it anyway, in the website copy that took four months, the freelancer who needed three briefings, and the posts that sound like somebody else's.
Who it's for
One brand, or fifty.
The deck is the same either way. How many you need is the only thing that changes what it costs.
One business, one brand
You run one thing and you want it said properly, once.
A company and its products
The parent brand and each product line, each with its own strategy.
Agencies
Client strategy you can put your own name on, at a price that leaves margin.
Freelancers
Sell your clients brand strategy without hiring a strategist.
How it works
Three steps. Done today.
Every screen below is the real product, mid-job, for the example deck further down this page.
- 1
Tell us about your business
A guided questionnaire covering your customers, your competitors, and what you actually do better. No marketing jargon. Save and come back whenever you like.
- 2
We build the strategy
Your answers go through the discovery process Bart Cleveland has run in agencies for forty years. It finds the through-line you were circling and makes the argument for it.
- 3
Use it the same day
A deck you can hand to a designer, a freelancer, or your own team. Plus social content built from the same strategy. Everything finally sounds like one company.
What you get
A real deck, not a summary.
Your brand strategy
- The single idea your brand stands on, and why it wins in your category
- Who you're for, described precisely enough to write to
- Your message pillars: what to say, in what order
- Voice guidelines, including how you should never sound
- Where you sit against your competitors
And what to do with it
- 35 social content sessions included, each five post ideas built from your strategy
- Every idea laddered to your positioning, so nothing drifts off-brand
- Hooks, calls to action, hashtags and a visual direction per post
- Download it as a PowerPoint or a PDF and hand it to anyone
- Swap or refine any individual idea, free
What it looks like
Pages you'd be happy to present.
Twenty-one pages, laid out like an agency deck, built from your answers. Three of them below, generated by the app for an example business.
Riverbend Cafe is an example business, not a client. Every deck is generated from your own answers, so no two look alike. See the whole deck, page by page.
The honest comparison
Same thinking. Different invoice.
The other honest comparison
Why this is not a chat window.
Ask a chatbot for a brand strategy and you will get one. It will be fluent, it will be plausible, and it will be built out of whatever you thought to type in the box. You run the interview. You decide what matters. You find out months later what you forgot to mention.
There is a language model inside this. There is one inside the chat window too. The difference is what you are left holding: twenty-one pages, in a fixed order, written so a designer can start on Monday without asking you a single follow-up question. Not a chat you have to keep having.
Brandstillery asks the questions instead. Thirty-eight of them, in the same order every time. The third section is called The honest bits: twelve questions a chat window would never think to ask, because it has no reason to push. Then the deck quotes your answers back to you as evidence, so you can see where every conclusion came from.
You are not paying for the language model. You are paying for the forty years around it.
The twenty-one pages, listed, and the two people behind this.
Pricing
Pay for what you make.
No subscription, no seats, no annual contract. Buy a deck; buy more content when you want it.
Need a brand for more than one business, product or client? Two, three and five cost less each.
Start here
Brand strategy deck
$500 one-time
- Your complete brand strategy
- 35 social content sessions, five post ideas each, valid for a year
- PowerPoint and PDF export
- The deck itself is yours to keep, with no expiry
Add-on · once you own a deck
Deck re-run
$100 per run- Business changed direction? Run it again
- Update your answers, get a fresh strategy
- Keeps your earlier decks
For customers who already have a deck.
Re-run my deck →Add-on · once the included 35 run out
Content sessions
$50 for 25 sessions- Each session is another five post ideas
- Built from your existing strategy
- Only needed once the included 35 run out
- Valid for a year from purchase
Tops up the balance your deck creates.
Buy more sessions →If a generation fails, you are not charged for it. The credit goes straight back to your account.
Why we built this
For the makers and the doers.
Every business starts with a spark and an unyielding drive to forge your own path. You refuse to be average. You rise before dawn and push through the night.
You deserve the same calibre of thinking the big brands buy, not a watered-down version priced for people who aren't serious. That is the whole reason Brandstillery exists.
What if the deck comes back wrong?
Email us and we will look at exactly what you received. Every deck is saved, so we see exactly what you got. If it came back wrong, we re-run it free.
Why not just ask ChatGPT?
Because a chat window makes you run the interview, and you get back what you thought to ask for. Brandstillery asks the thirty-eight questions instead, in the same order every time, and always ends in the same twenty-one pages: a document a designer can act on, not a chat you have to keep having. The longer answer is further up.
Is the output any good, or is it generic AI text?
Judge it before you pay. The slides above and the post idea on What you get are unedited output for an example business. A deck stays specific because it opens by quoting you: pages three to six are your own answers, sorted and read back as evidence, before the deck argues anything. If a line still sounds like it could be about anybody, tell us.
Can I get a refund?
The deck lands in minutes, so you see exactly what you bought. If it came back wrong we re-run it free, as many times as it takes. If re-running still does not get you something you can use, write to us and we will sort it out, including your money back. What we will not do is refund a deck that is fine because the month got tight. Every generation is saved, so we are both looking at the same thing.
Do I need to know marketing terminology?
No. The questionnaire asks about your business in plain language: who buys from you, what you do better, what gets in the way. Translating that into strategy is our job.
How long does it take?
The questionnaire takes most people 30 to 45 minutes, and you can save and return to it. Generating the deck itself takes a few minutes. The buy button takes payment and drops you straight into the first question. You can stop halfway and come back.
Is this a subscription?
No. You pay $500 once for a deck. There is no recurring charge, no seat count, and nothing to cancel.
Can I change it later?
Yes. If your business shifts, update your answers and re-run the deck for $100. Your earlier versions stay in your account.
Who owns what you produce?
You do. The strategy and the content are yours to use however you like, including commercially.
Be one of the first decks we show off.
We would rather show you a real customer's results than a stranger's quote, and we do not have one yet. Instead: a real deck you can read before you pay, a price that does not need a meeting, and a promise to fix it if it comes back wrong.
So here is the deal. Buy one of the first, and if it earns its keep, let us say so publicly: your name, your business, what changed, with your permission and nothing invented.
Your brand deserves a real strategy.
$500, once. About forty minutes of your time. Yours to keep.
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