Brand & Positioning

What you stand for. Who you’re for. Why it matters.

Brand strategy and positioning that gives every campaign, channel, and conversation a foundation worth building on.

In short //

  • 01

    A position you can own

    Define the space in the market that’s genuinely yours, and defensible.

  • 02

    Words that work everywhere

    Messaging and tone that hold up across every channel and conversation.

  • 03

    Foundations for everything

    The base every campaign, page and pitch is built on, done properly.

What I cover

  • Brand positioning: defining your space in the market and what makes you the right choice
  • Messaging frameworks: the words that work across every channel and audience
  • Value proposition development: sharp, honest, and built around what customers actually care about
  • Brand architecture: how your products, services, or sub-brands relate to each other
  • Narrative and tone of voice: how you sound, consistently, across every touchpoint
  • Competitive differentiation: understanding where you win and making sure your market knows it
  • Repositioning for growth: when the business has changed but the brand hasn’t kept up

What this covers //

Most businesses that struggle with marketing don’t have a marketing problem: they have a positioning problem. They’re unclear on what makes them different, inconsistent in how they talk about it, and building campaigns on foundations that were never properly set. Brand and positioning work fixes that at the source.

Relevant experience //

  • GreenTech Industries (GTI)

    Full brand positioning and commercial narrative for the UK first industrial-scale EV battery disassembly and remanufacturing operation: a business with genuinely novel technology in a sector most audiences have never encountered. Built the story that works for investors, partners, and the broader market.

  • Dragonfly AI

    Positioning and messaging for Dragonfly AI, the predictive-attention creative testing platform trusted by the world’s largest CPG brands and agencies. The challenge: making a scientifically sophisticated product legible and compelling in a fast-moving, crowded space.

  • AD Education Group (ICMP & SAE UK)

    Brand and positioning work across higher education institutions in music, film, games, and AI, helping specialist schools articulate what makes them the right choice in competitive student recruitment markets.

Right for you if //

You have a business that works but a brand that doesn’t do it justice, or you’re at a stage where getting the positioning right will determine whether the next phase of growth succeeds. Common triggers: a funding round, a new market entry, a product launch, or a sale process.

Related work //

  • Adzemble

    5.5 million UK small businesses spend real money on paid ads with no way to know whether the creative will work, and an enterprise-grade capability that could finally give them the answer, priced and positioned for them.

  • The Galley Restaurant

    Thirty-six years in the same 17th-century building on the Topsham estuary, a Michelin plate and an AA rosette on the wall, and a website that told none of it.

  • The Ashbrook Foundation

    A brand-new grant-making foundation with a name, a founder and some money to give away, and nothing else. No brand, no website, no public voice.

  • Elevate by ICMP

    ICMP had spent thirty years teaching musicians on campus. Elevate was the business we built to reach everyone who wasn't ready to walk through the door: courses from £15, online, taught by the people the industry actually hires.

All case studies →

Other services //

  • Fractional CMO Board-level marketing leadership on a flexible, retained basis. I set the strategy, own the numbers, manage the team and the agencies, and sit in the meetings where decisions actually get made, for an agreed number of days a month rather than a permanent hire.

  • Marketing Strategy Positioning, audience, channels, and a roadmap connected to revenue.

  • Marketing Audit An honest view of what’s working, what isn’t, and what to fix.

  • Team Building & Mentoring Build the marketing function your business actually needs.

  • AI Marketing & Adoption Use AI where it genuinely helps, safely, and built into how your team works.

  • Start-up Marketing Advisory Stress-test your proposition before you take it to market.

  • Bid Writing Bid writing, grant applications and award entries that win: millions secured.

  • Creative & Brand Production Concepts, campaigns and brand assets, designed and produced end to end.

  • PPC & Paid Media PPC and paid media accountable to pipeline, not clicks: planned, run, optimised.

  • SEO Consultant, AEO & GEO An SEO consultant for search engines and the AI that increasingly answers instead of them.

  • Video & AI Production Video from concept to cut, including AI-generated motion from static imagery.

Related reading //

All insights →

Next //

Strategy with vision. Impact that lasts.

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Every engagement begins by understanding where you are and what you need — a clear-headed discussion.

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