Brand clarity, positioning, studio model

Your business is good. The way it comes across isn't keeping up.

I work with founders who've built something genuinely good on word of mouth and quality, and are now trying to scale, enter a new market, or attract a different kind of client. The brand they grew with is no longer the brand they need. That's what I fix.

Kev Tanna mid-thought, in conversation
London · Studio model
Proof of work
28,000
registered patients, up from 15,000 in 18 months
148K
impressions in 4 weeks, zero paid spend
5
cultural event formats built into a single IP system
3
specialist brands inside the studio, all profitable
The gap

There's a gap between what your business actually is, and how it comes across.

You built it the honest way. Word of mouth. Quality. People who liked you, telling other people who liked you. That works, until you want to grow on purpose.

Then the cracks show. The website describes a different business than the one you actually run. The deck doesn't match the room you're trying to walk into. The proposal lands fine, but it doesn't lead. Inbound slows. You start spending on content that is pointed in the wrong direction.

The problem is rarely the work. The work is good. It's that the story underneath has drifted, and nobody on the team is going to tell you.

Three from the last 18 months

Concrete results, not impressive‑sounding ones.

Each of these started with a client asking for one thing, and ended with us solving the actual problem underneath.

01Healthcare · 18 months

GP practice, North London

28,000patients, up from 15,000

Came in asking for new photography. Reframed the brief as positioning. Rebuilt the brand, the patient journey, and the content engine. The result was a near‑doubling of the registered patient list in 18 months.

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02Cultural · Brand architecture

Red Lotus Events

5event formats, one system

Built the brand architecture, vision and mission, and IP frameworks for five formats: Navrangi Navratri, Sip & Paint, Meditate & Create, Migration Map and Rangeelu Gujarat. Plus the content system that holds it together.

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03Studio · Productised brand

Podcast Foundry

0 → 1specialist brand, from scratch

Built the positioning, the pricing tiers, the content model and the team structure. Proof that the studio model produces specialist brands, not just service work. Co‑founded with Priyesh Pankhania.

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"Most brand advice is built for people who want to feel like they're doing it right. Not for people who want it to work."

— Kev, on the conversation test
How to work together

Three ways in. Always the same starting point.

The workshop is the door. Everything else is downstream of what we find in it. You don't sign anything bigger until we both know what we're actually solving.

01 Standalone · 4 hours

Brand clarity workshop

A four‑hour session with you, the founder. We pull apart what the business actually is, where the story has drifted, and what to do about it. You leave with a direction and a written report.

£1,500Fixed · one invoice
02 Ongoing · follows the workshop

Brand build retainer

Where the workshop leads to a build. Ongoing consultancy, the right specialists from the network, and one point of accountability through to delivery. Scoped and priced after the workshop, when we both know what we're actually solving.

ScopedPriced after the workshop
03 Project · Studio network

Production and content

Podcasting through Podcast Foundry. Video and photography through trusted partners. Web and digital through the network. The right specialist matched to your brief, briefed by me, paid once.

ScopedQuoted per brief, after the workshop
The studio model

One relationship. One invoice. A network of specialists behind it.

You don't want to manage five suppliers, three quotes, and a chain of people who blame each other when something slips. You want to talk to one person who actually knows your business, and have the right specialists turn up when they're needed.

That's the model. I sit at the front. Everything runs through Cardboard Creative, the studio I've been operating from for years. Podcast Foundry handles podcasting. Trusted partners handle video, photography, web and digital. Everything is briefed by me, sequenced by me, and reports back to me.

YOU
FounderOne relationship, one number to call
KT
Kev TannaBrand, positioning, accountability for the whole brief
CC
Cardboard CreativeThe studio entity. Where the work is sequenced, run, and invoiced from.
PF
Podcast FoundryProductised podcast production, co‑founded with Priyesh Pankhania
VP
Video & photographyCurated partners. Briefed and managed by me.
WD
Web & digitalBuild partners matched to the brief, never sold for the sake of it.
in → process → refine → out
Where to start

The workshop is not overhead. It's the thing that stops you spending significantly more on content pointed in the wrong direction.

Four hours, the founder, a written report. £1,500. If after that we're not the right fit, you walk away with the clarity anyway. that's the deal.

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