Branding, strategy, positioning, messaging and creative for companies ready to stop guessing and start growing.

BRAND STRATEGY + GROWTH CONSULTANCY

More marketing won't fix weak messaging, it exposes it.

Pardon our dust, we’re still revamping the website, and leave you with this for now = )

Clarity →
Position →
Growth →

We fix the root cause, not the symptom.

You need a clear, firm, ownable position to gain marketshare.

Websites, ads, social posts and AI tools can’t rescue muddy positioning. When the message is wrong, every channel works harder and costs more.

We start upstream: who you serve, why they should care, what makes you different, and what will actually move them.

What companies ask for:

What we look at first:

Marketing doesn't create trust. It reveals whether you've earned it.

Things We get asked Every Week

I spent money on marketing and it didn't work.

Website updates, packaging mockups or design – this is not marketing. It’s creative. No one past your immediate audience will see these things. The rest of the world needs to be told it’s there. Positioning comes before ad spend.

We're posting to social like crazy.

Posting without strategy, or in the wrong place, or with the wrong message – is just posting. Your clients do not see the business the way you do. Cheap posting = thin results.

I need to launch more services / products before I spend on marketing.

Strategy is as much about what you don’t do, as what you do. Not because growth is bad or expansion is wrong, but expansion without constraint lacks strategy. If your current situation doesn’t allow you to market your core product or service, adding more stuff to market is a bad idea.

I hustle nonstop, it's not producing consistent sales.

Hustle isn’t a strategy, it’s a necessity. Do you really know your audience’s pain points? What gets them off the fence? Will your website and or social prove that and convert them when they look later?

When is a rebrand needed?

When your company has evolved but your market perception hasn’t. Need an example? Check this case study.

Why isn't SEO fixing my pipeline?

Because SEO amplifies positioning, it doesn’t create it. Need an example? Check this case study.

How does data play into branding?

Good branding isn’t based on personal preference, but on audience behavior, competitive positioning, and business goals. Need an example? Check this case study.

Can you work with my marketing team?

We often collaborate with in-house designers or external creative partners, providing the strategic data that ties their work to your larger brand goals.

Can't ChatGPT do this?

AI is excellent at research, iteration and production. We use it too. What it doesn’t replace is judgment: knowing what problem actually needs solving, which data matters, how people will perceive the result, and how all of it connects back to the business. Asking AI your SEO questions – it’s not that simple. It’s not comparing Search Console to Analytics and comparing your actual customers paid keywords, positioning to weigh relevancy, to suggest phrases your competition isn’t already owning. Also, most of its graphics – look just like your competitors.

The wrong "solutions".

A new website won’t fix unclear positioning. It gives confusion a nicer interface. More traffic won’t solve the wrong message. It just helps more people misunderstand you.

AI can generate answers. Experience knows which questions matter.

Brandhaüs (formerly Ad Factory) isn’t a new agency because new tools made branding and marketing easier to produce. We’ve been doing this long enough to know that the hard part was never making more stuff. It’s understanding the business, the audience, the competition, and what’s actually standing in the way of growth – from operations to creative to sales pitch.

We see companies invest in “more” all the time; campaigns, website redesigns, SEO, posting, launching new products, and “hustling”. Yet growth stalls. Why? Creative gets inconsistent. Messaging drifts. Decisions become reactive instead of intentional.

If your marketing isn’t keeping up with your companies growth, or worse, isn’t providing any…

THAT IS WHAT WE FIX.

trained by mad men

Strategy led by experience.
Execution by specialists.

I learned advertising when positioning, psychology and the idea came before the platform. The tools are different now. Human behavior is still the assignment.

Heather leads diagnosis, positioning, strategy and creative direction. Trusted specialists step in where the work requires deep execution. Brandhaüs stays accountable for keeping it connected.

Michelle

SEO / PPC

Stacey

AI / Automations

Stephen

Social / PR

Monique

Audience

Who are we actually talking to?

Position

Why should they choose you?

Strategy

What gets us from here to there?

Creative

Turn the strategy into something people notice.

Growth

SEO, PPC, campaigns and ongoing direction.

More marketing... posting... content... SEO... none of it fixes the wrong problem

We provide clear direction on the things you see so often, you overlook. Sometimes the answer is branding. Sometimes it’s messaging. Sometimes it’s the creative. Sometimes it’s marketing. The mistake is assuming the solution before understanding the problem.

01.

Strategic Advisory Seat

Starting at $2,500/mo

An experienced second set of eyes for founders making expensive decisions.

02.

Growth Diagnostic

Starting at $4,500

Find the real bottleneck before you spend another dollar.

03.

Brand Strategy & Creative

Starting at $15,000

For companies ready to reposition, rebuild and execute with confidence.

Craft Cocktail / CPG

Branding • Strategy • Creative • SEO / PPC • Packaging

This owner had been through the ringer with various online and freelancers, PR agencies, web designers and more. We augmented her brand and story, redid her e-commerce to add schema, SEO and all the trimmings, and quadrupled her sales within 2 months.

Online Courses Start-up

Branding • Strategy • Creative • SEO • Outdoor / OOH

This Fortune 500 executive came to us needing to better understand their target market and the sub-sets thereof, who their actual competition was, and how to outshine them. We rebranded, refreshed, and recreated – then launched and managed.

Adult Beverage Start-up

Branding • Strategy • Creative • Packaging • Retail Display

This client was referred to us needing mockups of 9 THC drink cans + 4 THC mocktail bottles within very very little time for his meeting with the CEO of Specs. We made it happen, along with creating a brand story for each line, taglines and positioning statements, mockups for social ads, mockups for retail POP displays and more.