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Hybrid intelligent business consultancy

Give it a brief.
Get it built the professional way.

Organizational structure, people strategy, market intelligence, and brand identity — as one connected system, built from a single brief.

✓ Strategy included
⏱ Ready in minutes
Specialty coffee · Warm & grounded

Wren & Bramble

"Coffee that remembers where it came from."

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Most businesses don't fail because the idea was wrong. They fail because the fundamentals were never built properly: the org chart drawn once on a whiteboard and never revisited, hiring done on gut feel, the market read once and never checked again, a brand designed in an afternoon with no strategy behind it.

A management consultancy would catch these gaps before they turn expensive. Braneup brings that same discipline — the frameworks, the diagnostics, the rigor of a professional engagement — to every founder and growing team, without the six-week timeline or the six-figure invoice. Four systems, one professional standard: give Braneup a brief, and it works the way a consultant would — systematically, thoroughly, and built to hold up under real use.

Built for founders·Startups·Freelancers·Agencies·Creators
Organizational Development

Give it your team.
Get the structure it's missing.

Growth exposes what a startup never had time to design — unclear reporting lines, a culture that formed by accident, decisions nobody actually owns. Braneup OD maps how your organization really works, finds exactly where it's straining, and hands you a clear, sequenced plan to fix it.

Develop my Organization
Organizational Development — example output

What lands in your hands

A real diagnostic, not a slide of platitudes. This is what Braneup OD returns from a short brief about a 34-person robotics startup.

Loom Robotics

Scaling risk: High
Diagnostic summary

"A company still run like a 6-person team at 34 people — fast because one person decides everything, and increasingly fragile for the same reason."

Structure snapshot
Team size
34 people across 5 functions
Reporting layers
4, with 11 direct reports to the CEO
Decision bottleneck
Every technical hire routes through the CTO
Highest-priority fixes
Hire a VP Engineering Split support into its own function Formalize a weekly leadership sync
Culture read
Real values
Speed over process, decided case by case
Decision style
Founder-approved, rarely delegated
Symbols & rituals
Slack over meetings; almost nothing written down
Management capacity
CEO span of control
11 direct reports (recommended max: 7)
Leadership bench
Only 1 of 5 functions has a named manager
Culture traits
Fast-moving Informal Founder-dependent Low documentation
People strategy & policy

Give it your team.
Get an HR function that runs itself.

Most early teams handle HR as it comes up — one policy written after something's already gone wrong. Braneup HR builds the function properly from the start: the policies, the role clarity, the hiring standards, and the compliance groundwork a real HR department would put in place.

Manage my Human Resources
HR — example output

What lands in your hands

A working playbook, not a folder of templates. This is what Braneup HR returns from a short brief about that same 34-person startup.

Loom Robotics

Compliance gaps: 3 flagged
Playbook summary

"Hiring has outrun policy. Six roles have no written description, and there's still no onboarding a new hire could follow without asking around."

Role & hiring snapshot
Roles undocumented
6 of 9 have no written job description
Interview process
Not standardized across functions
Onboarding
No checklist; handled ad hoc by each manager
Core policies delivered
Leave policy Code of conduct Performance review cycle Grievance procedure
Compensation philosophy
Pay approach
Market-median, banded by level
Benchmark source
Regional SaaS & robotics comp data
Equity guidance
Included for hires before headcount 50
Compliance checklist
Missing
Written harassment policy, I-9 procedure
Missing
PTO accrual policy
Policy tone traits
Clear Fair Legally sound Employee-first
Market & competitive intelligence

Give it your market.
See the blind spots you can't see from the inside.

Every business operates inside forces it rarely stops to examine — competitors moving, regulations shifting, customer expectations changing, technology closing the gap. Braneup Scan runs a structured environmental analysis and hands back exactly where you're exposed and where you're ahead.

Scan my Business Environment
Scan — example output

What lands in your hands

A structured read on the market, not a pile of headlines. This is what Braneup Scan returns from a short brief about that same robotics startup.

Loom Robotics

Market exposure: Medium
Scan summary

"Ahead on speed to onboard, exposed on compliance — the gap competitors are most likely to close first is security certification, not price."

PESTLE highlights
Technological
AI automation is lowering entry barriers fast
Regulatory
New data-residency rules land in 2027
Economic
Enterprise budgets tightening on new tools
Competitive landscape
3 direct competitors 2 emerging entrants 1 category leader
SWOT snapshot
Strength
Fastest onboarding time in the category
Weakness
No enterprise security certification yet
Opportunity
Competitors slow to localize outside the US
Market positioning
Position
Challenger, price-competitive
Gap to close
SOC 2 compliance before enterprise deals
Risk flags
Regulatory New entrant Pricing pressure
AI-powered brand identity

Give it a brief.
Get a whole brand.

Describe your business in a few lines. Braneup builds the strategy, palette, typography, voice, and brand protection guidance as one cohesive system.

Build my brand
Brand Identity — how it works

From a few sentences to a finished system

No forms to fill in twelve times. Tell Braneup what the business is, and it works out the rest in one pass.

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Tell Braneup about your business

A short brief — what it does, who it's for, what matters to the founder. That's the only input Braneup needs.

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AI builds your brand strategy

Braneup works out positioning, tone, and visual direction together, so nothing is decided in isolation.

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Receive a complete identity system

Strategy, palette, type pairing, voice, and messaging — organized as a document you can hand to anyone.

Brand Identity — what you get

Every layer of a brand, in one system

Brand strategy

Purpose, vision, mission, and the values that hold it together.

Positioning

Who it's for, what pain it solves, and what sets it apart.

Color palette

A working palette with a role for every color, not just five hex codes.

Typography pairing

A display and body face chosen to fit the tone, paired and ready.

Tone of voice

Traits to write toward, with what to use and what to avoid.

Tagline

A line that carries the brand's promise in a single breath.

Website messaging

Hero header, sub header, and a bio ready to paste in.

Brand protection guidance

A trademark safety read and domain suggestions worth checking first.

Brand Identity — example output

What lands in your hands

A real document, not a mood board. This is what Braneup returns from a two-line brief about a neighborhood coffee shop.

Wren & Bramble

Trademark safety: Medium
Elevator pitch

"A neighborhood coffee bar for people who miss when things were made slowly, by hand, by someone who knew your name."

Positioning
Persona
Remote workers who want a third place, not just a desk
Pain point
Chain cafés feel anonymous and rushed
Differentiator
Small-batch roasting done on-site, visible from the counter
Domain suggestions
wrenandbramble.com wrenbramble.co hellowren.coffee
Color system
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Type pairing
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Tone traits
Warm Unhurried Plainspoken Specific
Why founders choose Braneup

More than a brand tool

Four disciplines, reasoned from the same brief, so every part of the business holds up past the first screenshot.

From brief to system in minutes

No weeks of back-and-forth before you see anything real.

Every discipline, one brief

Structure, people, market, and brand all reasoned from the same input.

Consistent across the business

One strategic read, reused everywhere from your org chart to your homepage.

Reports you can actually use

Organized for a co-founder, investor, or new hire to pick up cold.

Professional without the invoice

The outcome of a real consulting engagement, without the retainer.

Built for founders and growing teams

For the stage before you can hire a COO, HR lead, or strategist.

Trust

Built to hold up under real use

AI-powered brand strategy Cohesive visual systems Launch-ready messaging Brand protection guidance Built for founders and startups
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Brand elements generated per brief
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Typical time from brief to system
1
Brief needed — no follow-up forms

"I wrote four sentences about my studio and got back a palette and a voice I actually use. It replaced a $2,000 branding quote."

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Rania K.
Founder, independent design studio

"Every AI logo tool gives you a mark and nothing else. Braneup gave me a reason for the colors, which mattered more."

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Dev M.
Co-founder, seed-stage startup
Pricing

One suite, four professional systems, one clear price.

Build your brand for free. Unlock unlimited generations plus Braneup OD, HR, and Scan for $4.99 / month.

Braneup
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Everything you need to start. Full brand identity system, five times a month — no card required.

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  • 5 brand generations per month
  • Full brand identity system per run
  • Strategy, palette, typography & voice
  • Brand protection guidance
  • Unlimited generations
  • Braneup OD diagnostic
OD · HR · Scan
What's included?

Three AI-powered diagnostics that map your team, your people function, and your market — so leadership can act with clarity.

  • OD — structure, culture & growth-gap analysis
  • HR — roles, policies & hiring frameworks
  • Scan — PESTLE, SWOT & competitive mapping
  • Downloadable diagnostic reports (PDF)

Questions? Reach us at braneup@gmail.com · Refund Policy

Build a business that holds up under real use.

Start with a simple brief and receive the professional systems to back it up.