The Rarer The Brand

The more valuable the company.

A Brand Experience

Brands today win or lose based on the experience they provide. We make sure your brand comes out on top.

Advisory and

Think of us as your Brand Ops-as-a-service. We provide practical, actionable guidance to support your strategies and your team.

Design Collective

Flexible. Nimble. Fit for purpose. We draw from a deep pool of creative talent and specialized experts to flawlessly execute.

We work with PE investors, VCs, and business owners to turn their companies
and investments into the most coveted brands in their markets.

Brands today win or lose based on the experience they provide. We make sure your brand comes out on top.

Think of us as your Brand Ops-as-a-service. We provide practical, actionable guidance to support your strategies and your team.

Flexible. Nimble. Fit for purpose. We draw from a deep pool of creative talent and specialized experts to flawlessly execute.

Brand experience is one of your company’s most critical assets – and you’re probably not using it as well as you could be.

Success requires you to constantly tell stories and deliver value – to customers, to investors, to the world – that proves there’s no company quite like yours.

Your brand is the best tool for that job, but only if it’s built on a foundation of how people think, feel, act, and make choices.

We build Rarefied brands. Uniquely distinctive strategies, expressions and experiences that support your thesis, shape perceptions, and change behaviors.

Supporting you across the investment lifecycle

Evaluate

Operate

capitalize

Brand Diligence
& Diagnostics

Identify opportunities to build category-defining brands and close better deals by learning what buyers really want, and how your companies, acquisitions and investments are truly perceived.

Brand Development
& Optimization

When it's time to re-think strategy - or evolve the brand to match the business - we define a singular position, craft a distinct presence, and provide the tools to amplify your transformation.

Experience Design
& Deployment

Ensure each brand touchpoint across the customer journey is working to give you an edge, and equip your teams to deliver the right experience to the right people at the right time.

NewCo Brands
& Carve-outs

Solve for all brand-related needs to create a new name, identity, expression, and experience - delivered at deal speed to support carve-outs, a merger of equals, or a new venture.

Platform Brands
& Roll-up Strategy

Develop your blueprint for architecting and integrating company brands and product portfolios to create a unified market presence with minimal disruption and maximum impact.

Exit Strategy
& Sales Support

Prove why your company deserves a valuation beyond its peer set by strategically activating your brand in support of capitalization or your acquisition roadmap.  

Brands we've worked with

We’ve helped companies of all shapes, sizes and situations create one-of-a-kind brand strategies, stories and experiences.

Our People

Managing Partner

Dan Golden

Being both red-headed and left-handed, Dan learned at a very early age the power that comes with standing out from the pack.

Dan specializes in the integration of brand strategy with investment and business strategy, with deep expertise in positioning, brand development, brand architecture, portfolio strategy and brand-led innovation.

During his 15+ year career, he has advised a number of C-Suite leaders and investors on brand strategy, business transformation, and strategic communications issues across a wide range of consumer and B2B industries.

Managing Partner

Leesa Wytock

Leesa specializes in a brand’s creative expression and believes that content, design, interactions and functionality must come together seamlessly to create truly distinct brand experiences.

Having worked across almost every industry and type of agency, Leesa brings a wealth of experience in behavioral insights, experience design, digital platforms, content strategy, service design and creative solutions, all in service of helping brands create beautiful and useful things out in the world.

If you see Leesa in a coffee shop, restaurant, bar, or high school soccer sideline doing her best work, it's because she's happiest when she's surrounded by the profound inspiration that is observing human behavior.









Interested? Let's talk.