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Stop paying the Obscurity Tax. Start owning your category.

Every engagement is reviewed personally by our Creative Director — no sales team, no discovery-call gauntlet, no proposals generated by a tool. Tell us about your firm using the form below; if your objectives align with our expertise, you’ll hear from Stuart directly within 24 hours. If they don’t, we’ll tell you that too, and point you somewhere better suited.

Apply For The Brand Equity Blueprint™

Industry & Client recognition

  • IDA Design Awards jury
  • Clutch
  • GoodFirms
  • Trustpilot
  • Dribbble
  • Crunchbase
  • ServiceList
  • LinkedIn

Engagement Options

Three Ways to Work With Us. All Fixed-Scope. No Hourly Billing.

We’ve retired hourly rates and bespoke quotes by guesswork. Every engagement is a fixed-scope product of The Brand Equity System™ — you know the price, the timeline and the deliverable before you commit a pound.

Published prices. Fixed scope.

Brand Equity Audit™

Freeno sales call, no obligation

A three-page written diagnostic of your brand presentation, messaging and digital visibility.

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Typically within two working days

  • Identity gaps and visual consistency
  • Messaging and positioning
  • Website, entity and structured-data checks
  • Competitor visibility and selected AI-search checks
  • Typically within two working days, no sales call

Brand Equity Blueprint™

£7,500one brand, paid upfront

The core brand strategy, identity and communication tools to get your firm up and running. Typically 4–6 weeks from cleared payment.

Discuss the Blueprint

Naming, website and rollout are scoped separately

What’s included in the Brand Equity Blueprint™
  • Competitive research and market assessment
  • Brand positioning
  • Visual identity and logo system
  • Verbal identity and messaging
  • Brand guidelines
  • Pitch decks and social-media templates

Brand Equity Partnership™

£18,000six months, paid upfront (equivalent to £3,000/month)

Ongoing brand direction, creative support and implementation, after or alongside the core brand.

  • Monthly strategy sessions
  • Design and narrative support
  • Pitch, proposal and tender materials
  • LinkedIn, social-media and PR messaging
  • Quarterly brand-health and AI-search visibility reporting

The detailed breakdown

  • The Brand Equity Audit™ — Free

    A clinical triage for firms that have outgrown their original identity. This is a strictly written diagnostic—no sales calls required. We extract the data via a five-question commercial brief and deliver a forensic report typically within two working days.

    • Identify Revenue Leaks: We pinpoint exactly where your current brand is repelling high-value customers and funding your competitors’ growth.
    • The “So What?” Test: A brutal audit of your firm’s messaging against the specialist demands of the UK professional services market.
    • Algorithm & Entity Review: A technical assessment of your “Entity” status to ensure AI search agents (Gemini, SearchGPT) recognise your firm as the definitive authority in your sector.

  • The Brand Equity Blueprint™ — £7,500

    “Your complete brand architecture. Built once. Built right.” The Blueprint is a foundational capital investment. We replace creative guesswork with a rigorous technical specification for your firm’s market dominance.

    • Market Intelligence: A deep-tissue competitive audit to identify the “Meaning Gap” your rivals are too generalist to own.
    • Positioning Framework: We architect a “Category of One” strategy that positions your firm as the only logical choice for high-stakes clients.
    • Visual Engineering: We build a high-performance visual ecosystem that triggers “Visual Trust” in 0.05 seconds of interaction.
    • Narrative Strategy: A persuasive verbal identity guide that equips your partners and sales teams to justify your premium fees with total conviction.

  • The Brand Equity Partnership™ — £18,000 for six months

    “Your brand, actively managed. Month by month. Result by result.” A brand is a living financial asset that requires active governance to prevent “Strategic Drift.”

    • Fractional Brand Director: Direct access to our Lead Strategist for monthly sessions to ensure your brand remains aligned with shifting market conditions.
    • Active Execution: Ongoing creative and narrative support for high-stakes touchpoints, including tender documents, investor decks, and digital content.
    • Compound Equity Management: We ensure that as your firm scales, your visual and intellectual assets grow in value, turning your brand into your most hardworking sellable asset.

The Process

What Happens After You Hit Submit?

We take on a limited number of engagements at a time, so every brand gets partner-level attention. If we’re at capacity, we’ll tell you the realistic start date up front.

  • Personal review — within 24 hours.

    Your application goes to our Creative Director, not a CRM sequence. Stuart reads every submission personally and replies by email within one working day.

  • The Strategic Deep Dive — asynchronous.

    If your objectives align with our expertise, we begin an email-based diagnostic to uncover your revenue leaks and market opportunities — before any contract is signed. No calls unless you want one.

  • The honest verdict.

    If we’re the right fit, you receive a fixed-scope proposal with the price you’ve already seen above. If we’re not, we’ll say so and, where we can, point you toward someone better suited. An application is not a commitment for either of us.

Start With the Free Audit.

Before we build, we diagnose — and if you’d rather see how we think before committing to anything, that’s exactly what the Brand Equity Audit™ is for. A five-question brief from you; a concise written diagnosis from us typically within two working days, identifying exactly where your brand is leaking authority. No sales calls, no obligation. If the findings make the case for working together, you’ll be back on this page with evidence instead of instinct. Join 300+ identity projects who redefined their market position with Inkbot Design.

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★★★★★

Without a doubt, having Stuart create our brand identity is the best thing to happen to our company.

He took his time to understand our vision, offered strategic suggestions, and delivered a mark we are proud of. The entire process was seamless. If you are particular about quality and perfection, you are in good hands.

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By the Numbers

years of branding practice, since 2009
17+
completed identity projects
300+
countries where clients are based
21
from 87 Google reviews (checked 11 Oct 2026)
4.9/5

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Let’s Clear the Air.

Great partnerships start with great questions. Whether you’re curious about the technicalities or just want to know when we can start, we’ve laid it all out for you here. Secure My Brand’s Future

How much does it cost to work with Inkbot Design?

Three fixed-scope options: the Brand Equity Audit™ is free; the Brand Equity Blueprint™ — complete brand strategy and identity — is £7,500; the Brand Equity Partnership™ — ongoing brand governance — is £18,000 for six months, paid upfront (equivalent to £3,000/month). Multi-brand portfolios and enterprise scope are quoted individually. No hourly billing, no surprise invoices.

What happens immediately after I submit an application?

Our Creative Director personally reviews your submission and replies by email within 24 hours. If your objectives align with our expertise, we begin an asynchronous Strategic Deep Dive — an email-based diagnostic that uncovers revenue leaks and opportunities before any contract is signed. No sales calls unless you request one.

Why don’t you offer standard pricing “packages”?

Because packages are how agencies sell deliverables, and deliverables alone don’t solve commercial problems. We sell fixed-scope outcomes instead: a complete strategic reconstruction at £7,500, or ongoing governance at £18,000 for six months, paid upfront (equivalent to £3,000/month). You get package-level price certainty with strategy-level substance — a logo alone is a commercial liability, so we don’t sell one.

What is the minimum investment required?

£7,500 — the fixed fee for the Brand Equity Blueprint™. If that’s beyond the current budget, start with the free Brand Equity Audit™: you’ll get a written diagnosis of your most critical brand leaks and a roadmap you can act on independently until a full engagement makes sense.

Why do you require a strategic review before a final quote?

For our fixed-scope products, you don’t — the prices are published, and they’re the prices. The review applies to one case: multi-brand portfolios and enterprise complexity, where quoting without diagnosing your brand’s structural integrity would constitute professional malpractice. The review is email-based and gauges the true scope before we commit to a number.

How long does a full strategic brand overhaul take?

The Brand Equity Blueprint™ typically takes 4–6 weeks for one brand, from cleared payment. Rollout, website and launch work are scoped separately, with their own schedule. We don’t compromise the intelligence-gathering and positioning phases; they dictate whether the visual design succeeds.

What if we just need a quick logo design?

Then we’re likely not the right fit — and we’d rather tell you now than after you’ve filled in a form. We engineer brands that serve as compounding financial assets for firms that sell expertise. If you need a fast, low-cost graphic, a marketplace platform will serve you better, and there’s no shame in that being the right tool today.

We have an in-house marketing team. How do you collaborate with them?

We act as your external strategic vanguard. We build the high-level brand architecture and positioning, and then equip your in-house team with the “Brand Governance” tools they need to deploy it flawlessly at scale.

How do we measure the ROI of a strategic rebranding project?

While aesthetics are subjective, brand equity is measurable. Our clients track ROI through increased margin command (premium pricing), shortened sales cycles (heightened authority), and lowered customer acquisition costs (CAC).

Do you execute the final strategy, or just deliver a brand book?

We provide end-to-end orchestration. From the core logo system to conversion-centric web design, we ensure the strategic vision survives the execution phase and thrives in the real market.

We are based in the US and global markets. Can you handle international rollouts?

Absolutely. While our studio is based in the UK, we operate as a “Global First” agency. We have successfully engineered brands for clients across 21 countries, navigating distinct cultural nuances and international market moats.

Who owns the intellectual property (IP) of the final brand assets?

You do. On final approval, you own the final approved files. Third-party fonts, stock assets and software remain subject to their own licences, and unused concepts and working files are excluded unless expressly included in the agreement. Your brand is your asset to own, scale, and protect.