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Branding — guides & playbooks

Everything we've written on branding — 6 articles, drawn from live client work, not theory.

14 May 2026 6 min

Your brand's first 5 seconds: what a homepage must say instantly

Visitors decide whether to stay in seconds. The three questions every homepage has to answer above the fold — before any scrolling, copy or cleverness.

Chandan Kumar

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11 Apr 2026 7 min

Naming a brand in 2026: the test we run before we commit

A name has to work as a domain, a handle, a logo and a word people say out loud. The practical screen we put every candidate name through.

Chandan Kumar

Branding

13 Mar 2026 7 min

Brand vs performance: why the 'either/or' is costing you money

Treating brand and performance as rivals is why a lot of ad budgets underperform. How the two compound when you stop pitting them against each other.

Chandan Kumar

Branding

5 Feb 2026 6 min

From founder-led to brand-led: handing over the voice

Early on, the founder is the brand. Scaling means the brand has to sound like itself without the founder in every post. How to make that handover.

Chandan Kumar

Branding

9 Jan 2026 8 min

Design systems that actually scale (and the ones that quietly don't)

Most brand systems die in their second month. The four-part test we run before we let a design system out the door — and what to do when yours fails it.

Chandan Kumar

Branding

26 Nov 2025 8 min

How to rebrand without blowing up the equity you already have

A pragmatic framework for evolution vs. full rebrand — and the audit we run with founders before recommending either path.

Chandan Kumar

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