About

Hi, I’m Shaan.

I’ve spent twenty years inside agencies and brand teams, working with companies like Porsche, The New York Times, Toyota and Amazon, along with plenty you probably haven’t heard of. That mix trained me to look at a company from the outside in. Not just what the business wants to say. What the market actually sees, what buyers understand, where things get fuzzy and what’s worth fixing first.

A lot of that comes back to positioning. It’s not the only thing I do. But a surprising amount gets easier once you’re clear on what you are, who it’s for and why someone should care.

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How I Work

Usually One of Two Ways.

A project

A website. A campaign. A rebrand. Often a repositioning underneath it. We scope it, build it and finish it.

A capability

An ongoing marketing function. It can grow, shrink or change as the work does.

On bigger engagements, usually creative, I bring in people who have done this before, at this level. People I trust.

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Ideas, teardowns, and field notes. The stuff we use to help companies make sharper decisions.