Find out where you are
SCORECARD
- Needs
- Nothing. 39 questions and your website address.
- Produces
- A scored audit across 11 dimensions with every finding and what to do about it.
Every stage
Three jobs, seven connected stages: get clear on what the business stands for, make it recognizable, then put it to work. BrandOS carries the strategy and digital tools; Turtle Labs Studio handles the identity work. Start where you are, not at the beginning.
01 / 03
Find what is getting in the way, then decide what the business stands for.
SCORECARD
STRATEGY
02 / 03
Turn that strategy into a name and identity people can recognize everywhere.
NAME
Scoped against a brief and quoted for the work. If you name something every few weeks, that is a retainer rather than a project, and it is the same team either way.
Most businesses arrive with a name they are keeping. Skip this.
MARK
The identity is the easy half. The expensive half is the two years afterwards, when somebody needs an asset on a Tuesday and makes one that is nearly right. That part is a retainer, and it is quoted separately.
Quoted per piece or per set. Nobody needs all their collateral at once, so a standing production queue is a retainer instead and is quoted as one.
03 / 03
Put the brand to work online, then keep it consistent as the business grows.
BUILDon WebOS
CONTENT
The only one of these that was always a retainer. Publishing is a rhythm, and a brand that posts in bursts reads as a brand in trouble. Quoted against the channels and the volume rather than sold at one price.
Most businesses arrive with a name they are keeping and half an identity. The audit tells you which stages you actually need, and we would rather say "skip three of these" than sell you the whole path.
The order above is a dependency order, not a menu. A logo drawn before the positioning is settled is a logo that gets redrawn, which is why each stage says what it needs before it says what it costs.
A practical system for brand clarity, strategy and continuous improvement.
Start with the free Brand Audit. Add the strategy path, the 90-day tracker, website monitoring and the builder when you need more.
The audit is free and stays free, whether or not you build with us.
Naming, the identity system, the manual and the collateral are project work, scoped against a brief and quoted for what it is.
They used to sit here on a monthly fee, which told a reader that a whole brand identity was included in a low subscription. It is not, and saying so was the more expensive mistake.
Ongoing work, a standing production queue or a campaign every month, is a retainer and is quoted separately.