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Strategy, mark and a system your team can apply, built so the brand still holds when someone else uses it.

Trusted by funded B2B SaaS teams

Ocoord
Healthyverse
Gigs
Alterscope
HDX International
Duo Digital
Portfolio

Case Studies

A few of the products we've shaped.

How the brand gets built

Strategy first, then the marks

We follow a strategy-first process that ensures your visual identity reflects who you actually are.

Discovery & Research

We start by understanding your business, market, and ambitions. Who are your customers? Who are your competitors? What makes you genuinely different? We analyze the competitive landscape to find positioning white space.

Typical outputs:

  • Interviews with founders and customers
  • The category and who you sit against
  • What the brand has to do commercially
  • Where the current brand fails
What the brand work covers

What you get

A brand your team can run without you: the thinking, the marks, and the rules for using them.

  • Positioning before pixels

    What you stand for and against, decided before anyone draws a mark.

    The part that makes the rest arguable rather than personal.

  • A mark that works small

    Primary, secondary, monochrome and reversed, tested at favicon size.

    Most marks break here.

  • An identity system

    The rules that make a deck, a site and an ad look related.

    Applied across the things you make weekly.

  • Templates for weekly work

    The things your team makes every week, ready to fill in.

    The reason the brand survives contact with the team.

  • Guidelines people read

    How to use it, and what breaks it, in a document someone opens twice.

    Do and do-not, side by side.

  • Source files, yours

    Vector marks, fonts, templates and the working files.

    No export fee, no lock-in.

Industries We Work With

B2B SaaS first, with most of our work in fintech, healthtech and AI products.

Why Masterly

Why founders brand with us

A logo is the easy part. The system around it is what stops the brand drifting by the third hire.

Strategy before aesthetics
We start with positioning: who you are, who you serve, why anyone should pick you. Colours and fonts express that decision, and they cannot make it for you.
Startup-native understanding
We’ve branded dozens of startups across SaaS, Fintech, Healthcare, and AI. We understand the balance between looking established and staying authentic to early-stage reality.
Investor-ready quality
Your brand often meets an investor before you do. A polished identity signals that the team can execute, which is what the reader is judging in the first ten seconds.
Systems, not just logos
A logo is one piece. You get the whole system, colours, typography, graphics and guidelines, working from the app to the pitch deck to a LinkedIn post.
Built for consistency
Guidelines mean your team, a future designer, an agency or a developer all apply the brand the same way. The rulebook is what keeps it intact after the third hire.
Seamless product integration
Branding naturally flows into UI/UX, web design, and marketing. Work with us on branding, and everything downstream stays consistent without re-discovery.
Tools and workflow

The tools behind how we design and ship.

From design and collaboration to development and analytics, we work with the tools modern product teams already use.

Design

  • Figma
  • After Effects
  • Lottie

Collaboration

  • Slack
  • Loom
  • Google Meet
  • Notion

Development context

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Tailwind
  • Storybook

Analytics and feedback

  • Posthog
  • Hotjar
Selected work

What the work looks like.

  • Flyra fintech logo lockup on a dark green brand field
  • ASPN Labs marketing site — high-performance health landing pages and membership tiers
  • Makepeace Method website hero — chronic pain programme with founder video
  • Dentinostic website — German-language dental care landing page and patient content
  • Flyra type and colour system — DM Sans and Roobert with brand hex values
  • ASPN Labs brand poster — performance optimisation positioning with app screen
  • Makepeace Method brand board — logotype, buttons, colour tiles and merch
  • Dentinostic site pages — press kit, clinician bios and treatment explainers

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