Specialties

  • Listening
  • Finding the true coolness in the work your company does
  • Gestating audacious creative ideas
  • Injecting emotion into cerebral products and services
  • Galvanizing company cultures
  • Lowering the cost barriers to sophisticated branding

Services

Everything we do for you is rooted in a single process: listen, think, imagine, execute, repeat. These are some of our most popular deliverables:

  • Brand audits
  • Qualitative research
  • Brand positioning strategy
  • Naming
  • Logos
  • ID systems
  • Web sites
  • Content creation and content marketing
  • Lead generation campaigns
  • Digital marketing campaigns
  • SEO
  • Sales support
  • Sales collateral and presentations
  • Culture manuals
  • Internal brand building
  • Short films
  • Pure, unbridled creativity, turned up to 11 and applied to any aspect of your brand or business

Categories we’ve rocked

We’re freakishly versatile. We’ve helped sell shaking beef, risk management, Czech cellular services, capital equipment and a lot more. We bring something new and unexpected to every category we touch. We’re repeat offenders in:

  • Wealth management
  • Professional services
  • Child development
  • Non-profits
  • Media
  • Technology (of course)

A short list of clients we’ve worked for

Many of these are household names. The ones that aren’t, we helped turn into household names and leaders in their respective categories.

  • 10,000 Degrees
  • Extreme Networks
  • Apple Computer
  • Oracle
  • HP
  • San Francisco Bay Guardian
  • Element FX
  • San Francisco Chronicle
  • GPK Real Estate
  • Engine Room
  • Rolm
  • Xircom
  • 3Com
  • Sega
  • Private Ocean
  • The Advocates
  • Bridgewater Advisors
  • Virgin
  • RoseRyan
  • Fountainhead
  • MatchLogic
  • Westmount
  • Steve & Kate’s Camp
  • Galileo
  • Avid4Adventure
  • Buckelew Programs
  • Stanford Medical
  • Enliven
  • Moving Solutions
  • Q5
  • Avaterra
  • Consumer Review
  • Aristotle
  • Applied Materials
  • Cendara
  • Capital Capital
  • Heritage Financial
  • Aspiriant
  • PC World
  • BET
  • Oskar Mobil
  • Miller Freeman
  • @Home Network
  • Sven Technologies
  • Excite@Home
  • Mailblocks
  • Aristotle
  • Digital Impact
  • WebEx
  • Junxure
  • Round Table Pizza
  • Dell Computer
  • Replay TV
  • Red Baron Pizza
  • Ashton Tiffany
  • Slanted Door Restaurant Group
  • Play-Well
  • Maxwell Money
  • Nuvation
  • Amelio
  • Sun Microsystems
  • LeaseDox
  • Nanoconduction
  • Alternative Weekly Network
  • Cook Express
  • Environmental Health Coalition
  • Motorola
  • Maven Networks
  • North Beach Jazz Festival
  • PC Computing
  • San Francisco Film Festival
  • SMG Consulting
  • Intelligent Gamer
  • Curtis Meyers Photography
  • Polly Glot's
  • Computer Game Developers
  • Conference
  • Software Development Conference
  • Virage
  • Smart Business
  • Parts Heaven
  • Lunarfish
Strategy disguised as creative