Six disciplines. No handoffs between them.
Most agencies split these across departments, which is where strategy gets lost in translation. I do the strategy and the implementation myself, so nothing gets diluted on the way from plan to production.
Brand strategy & identity
Positioning, naming, and a visual identity that holds up across every touchpoint, not just the logo sheet.
Most rebrands start with a logo and work backwards, which is why so many end up as decoration rather than a decision. I start with positioning: what the business actually does better than the alternative, and who that has to convince. The identity, the name if it needs one, the guidelines, all come after that's settled, so the visual language has something real to carry rather than a mood board to imitate.
Web design
Design that reads as premium without leaning on template conventions: considered typography, real photography, and a layout built around how people actually decide.
I design for the decision a visitor is trying to make, not for a mood board. That means clear hierarchy, honest copy, and enough restraint that the work being shown, whether that's kitchens, software, or a service, stays the focus. I hand off designs that are already built to convert, not a static file someone else has to interpret.
Web development
I build the site itself, not just the design of it. Fast, indexable, and built to hold up once real traffic and real content start arriving.
Most agency websites are handed off and never touched again. I build mine to be extended: templated pages for new locations or services, tracking wired in from day one, and a CMS structure that doesn't require a developer for routine updates. WordPress, Webflow, and Next.js are where most of that work happens, chosen by what the business actually needs, not what's easiest for me to ship, and I can build in Wix or Squarespace too when that's genuinely the better fit.
SEO & AI search visibility
Technical foundations, content structure, and the schema that makes a business legible to Google and quotable by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Overviews. Increasingly the same groundwork, treated as two separate jobs by agencies still catching up.
Search is splitting: some of it still happens on a results page, and a growing share happens inside a conversation with a model. Both reward the same underlying thing, clean technical foundations and genuinely useful, well-structured content, but each has its own citation patterns worth understanding directly rather than assuming one implies the other. I build templated location and service pages, internal linking that reflects how the business is actually structured, schema and entity markup an AI system can parse, and prioritisation based on where competitors are actually winning. The goal is a site that keeps earning visibility in both places without a new campaign every quarter.
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The infrastructure behind the campaigns: lead capture, pipeline visibility, and reporting that connects spend to revenue.
Most businesses I've worked with don't have a system that reflects how their sales process actually works, they have a spreadsheet, or a CRM configured for someone else's process. I've built one from scratch when nothing off-the-shelf fit. Whether that means configuring an existing CRM properly or building something bespoke, the standard is the same: it should match your process, not the other way round.
New lead
Qualified
Quoted
Won
Applied to a business you'll recognise.
These six disciplines, weighted differently depending on where a business actually is: what a kitchen showroom needs first is rarely what a SaaS team needs first.