Pieces/Brand Direction
Piece 01 · In the Machine
Your brand, decided. Not guessed.
A palette, a type pairing, and a message — chosen from a curated library against your answers, not invented. You leave with a direction you can hand to anyone.
What you walk away with
A direction you own, not a mood board you second-guess.
One direction, chosen from eight. A five-role palette, contrast-checked. A type pairing that fits it. Your message — the one sentence a stranger understands, who you serve, who you don’t. All assembled into a Compass that lives in your Vault.
How the Machine does it
Decided from a library, not dreamed up.
Diagnose first
It reads your six pieces and your answers before it shows you anything.
You choose the direction
From a short list that fits your business. The Machine routes to the library; it never invents a direction.
It assembles the rest
Palette, type, and message are pulled to match your direction, inside the rules — your nouns, three options by angle.
Your Compass
Your decisions, stored word for word, written into one page in your Vault. If it can’t find something with confidence, it says so.
A sample Compass
See what you get before any gate.
You chose Human Guide because your clients need to feel heard before they commit.
Direction
Human GuideCare with a clear path
Palette · Hearth & Ink
Type · Openhearted Precision
Fraunceswith DM Sans for text
Message
“Support that makes the next step feel possible.”
Guide vs. the Machine
The guide tells you how. The Machine does it with you.
Same method, two ways to run it. The Machine assembles the outputs, gates each step, asks nothing twice, and generates the Compass from your answers. Prefer to do it yourself? Start with the guide.
Yours to keep
What it is, and what it isn’t.
- Included
- One direction, chosen from eight
- A five-role palette, contrast-checked
- A type pairing
- Your message and voice
- The Compass, in your Vault
- Not in this piece
- A built website — that’s Website Strategy
- A custom logo or lettering
- Ongoing management
- Anything asked of you twice
The direction is yours. No license to renew, no ongoing cost. It lives in your Vault, and you can export it any time.