The Soundcheck
A first look at the page that matters most.
- One asset audited: homepage, landing page, or single ad
- One-page Clarity Score report
- Top three highest-leverage fixes
- One before / after rewrite, with cited research
We help brands connect, without the static.
Senior strategy. Work that carries its weight.
No media markup.
No agency overhead.
Clarity is a form of respect.
The brain unconsciously equates ease of processing with truth, competence, and trust. — Song & Schwarz, processing-fluency studies
Louder rarely wins.
Of up to 10,000 daily brand exposures, fewer than 1% consciously register. — Lunio, 2025
Customer loyalty is a two-way street.
Without reinforcement, 50% of brand recall disappears within 24 hours. — Nielsen Catalina · Ehrenberg-Bass
Attention is a gift. Reward it.
47% of a video ad's value is decided in the first three seconds. — Meta research
Talk too much and your audience tunes out.
Working memory holds 3–4 distinct ideas. Cross the line and the brain discards the entire message. — Cowan, 2001
We audit the messaging you're already putting into the world — your site, your ads, your social, your sales materials — against twelve documented measures of cognitive clarity. You get a score, the gaps that explain it, and the highest-leverage things to fix.
A first look at the page that matters most.
One channel, audited end to end.
Cross-channel coherence, top to bottom.
Every audit scores four dimensions across twelve sub-scores. Each one is anchored in peer-reviewed cognitive science — not opinion, not taste. Two trained eyes, one rubric, repeatable results.
Reading level, jargon density, and the ratio of concrete to abstract language.
Single-proposition focus, claim coherence across surfaces, promise-to-proof ratio.
Five-second comprehension, hierarchy, and the cognitive load of the design.
CTA explicitness, friction in the path to action, and choice architecture.
We don't predict your conversion lift. We show you exactly what's costing you attention — and what the research says about why. The connection between those two facts is yours to make.
For brands that need their signal set — voice, direction, the core of showing up consistently.
We define your voice, your narrative, and the assets that carry it.
We don't run your calendar.
We make it worth running.
Founders and in-house marketing teams who know they have a brand — and know it isn't landing the way it should.
This package is designed to give your team a clear foundation to work from. If you need something more — like a partner to conceive and produce a monthly campaign, anchor video, and supporting assets — consider our Punch package.
For brands past setup. One monthly campaign — concept, video, everything — that shifts how people see you.
One campaign a month: concept, copy, direction, production.
Not a content calendar.
A point of view that reflects the truth and values of your brand.
Founders and marketing leads who've outgrown the freelancer-of-the-month pattern and want senior thinking on a monthly rhythm.
This package is designed to deliver one complete, considered campaign each month. If you need something more, like creative direction across every channel, ongoing oversight, and a partner for the unpredictable, consider our Peak package.
Full creative partnership. Embedded. Two clients at a time. That's not a tactic — it's the honest limit.
For brands that need the kind of embedded creative leadership usually reserved for a full-time senior CD — without hiring one. Strategy, concepting, execution across every channel, and on-call access for the work that doesn't wait for next month. Two clients at a time. Past that, the work stops being the work.
Brands with real momentum — regional institutions, growth-stage companies, founders who know the next chapter needs senior creative leadership, not another freelance roster.
There is no tier above this one. Two clients at any given moment — that's the cap, and it's the honest cap. If the roster is full, there's a waitlist, and we work through it when something opens. Past Peak, you don't need a better tier. You need a full agency with media and PR — and we'll tell you who.
Not every brand needs a retainer. Sometimes you need one thing, done right. A campaign. A launch. A brand refresh. A film. A piece of work that moves the needle and stands on its own.
Flat-fee projects, scoped honestly at the start. Same senior creative direction, no retainer commitment. Available to new clients and existing retainer clients whose needs run outside their tier.
We are a studio. Not a team of teams. Not a holding company with a name you'd forget by Tuesday.
Sixteen years of agency creative experience across restaurants, financial services, spirits, healthcare, public institutions, and a lot of businesses that were genuinely great at what they did — and just needed the marketing to catch up. Real fluency in regulated categories — alcohol, financial, healthcare — where the rules shape the creative as much as the brief does.
Strategy, copy, design, video, social, email, brand voice — one studio, one bill, one point of contact. Everything a traditional agency would hand off to four departments, handled here by the people who actually made it. We keep the roster small because that's the only way to do the work justice. Limited to six clients. When it's full, we say so.
Award-winning creative direction. Based in the American South.
We'd rather say this out loud than waste a week of your time and ours figuring it out the hard way.
→ Businesses that want a dashboard of vanity metrics instead of work that actually moves them.
→ Anyone who needs a weekly tally of deliverables to feel like something's happening.
→ Brands that aren't ready to have a point of view — or aren't willing to defend one.
→ Brands that need a full agency with media buying, PR, and account management layered in. We have a ceiling for a reason. Past that, you need a different shape of partner — and we'll tell you who.
→ Anyone looking for the cheapest option. We're not it.
Tell us what you're working on. We read everything and get back to you within a couple of days — usually sooner.
We'll be in touch — usually within 48 hours. Go make something in the meantime.