Rebrand Express
A three-week express rebrand for established companies that need to relaunch a visual identity around a fixed external date — an acquisition close, a name change, an IPO filing, a product pivot. Same strategic rigor as a full rebrand, scoped to the deliverables that actually move the needle in a relaunch window.
Fast Rebranding Built Around a Real Launch Date
Acquisitions, pivots, name changes, IPO prep — they all share one constraint: there's a date, and it doesn't move. A traditional 12-week rebrand timeline doesn't fit. Express rebranding compresses discovery, strategy, and design into a 21-day sprint without skipping the parts that matter — positioning clarity, distinctiveness against the new competitive set, and asset coverage broad enough to relaunch every public surface on day twenty-two.
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Brand audit plus stakeholder interviews translated into a positioning summary
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New logo system — primary mark, simplified mark, and submark variants
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Refreshed palette and type pairing tuned to the new strategic direction
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Core asset rollout — website hero, social profiles, deck template, signatures
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One-page brand essentials covering tone, voice, and visual rules
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Editable Figma source files for ongoing in-house production after handoff
Designs Worth Remembering
A curated mix of visuals that speak louder than words — bold, refined, and uniquely crafted.
How We Compress a Rebrand Into Three Weeks
Express rebrand timelines fail when teams skip strategy. Ours fail when teams skip decision-making. We've structured the engagement to force a single decision per week — locked, signed, and immune to second-guessing once the next phase begins.
Week 1: audit, interviews, positioning lock
Five 30-minute stakeholder interviews on days one and two — founder, head of marketing, head of sales, head of product, one customer-facing IC. Day three: an audit of the existing brand against the new direction. Days four and five: positioning summary in a single page, locked end of week one. One acquired SaaS company walked into the engagement with three competing positioning narratives across their leadership team and walked out of week one aligned. That alignment is what makes the next two weeks possible.
Week 2: identity system, end-to-end
Logo, palette, type, and the secondary system elements (icon style, photography direction if relevant) all designed in week two as one composition. We test the full system on real screens — your homepage hero, a sales deck, a LinkedIn announcement post — before locking. End of week two: a system approved against the actual surfaces it'll launch on, not against an isolated presentation deck.
Week 3: rollout assets and launch enablement
The last week produces the asset library your team needs to flip the switch on day twenty-two. Website hero direction with annotated mocks for engineering. Pitch deck template. Six social profile assets sized per platform. Email signature. One-page brand essentials. We close with a 90-minute launch enablement call walking through exactly what gets posted where and in what order. Teams that follow our launch sequence have, on average, retained 78% of their pre-rebrand brand-search traffic versus the 50–60% benchmark we see for unstructured rebrand launches.
Post-launch: 14-day support window
Acquisitions and name changes always surface edge cases — a partner site that hasn't updated the embed, a legacy email template, a press kit asset that needs adapting. Two weeks of named support after launch covers exactly that. Not unlimited, not vague — a clear hours bank for the predictable post-launch fixes that always come up.
Meet the Team Behind the Work
Our team brings together specialists from different creative and technical fields — from Webflow developers to creative directors.
Each of us contributes our own perspective, skills, and dedication to deliver thoughtful, high-quality digital solutions for our clients around the world.
Where Compressed Rebrands Quietly Lose Money
We've taken over four express rebrands that started elsewhere and stalled. Three patterns repeat, each with measurable cost in lost brand-search traffic, slower sales velocity, and post-launch fix work.
Skipping the audit because the timeline is tight
is the most expensive shortcut in compressed rebranding. Without an audit, the new identity gets designed against assumptions about what the existing brand is doing well — usually wrong. One acquired company we picked up mid-rebrand had spent two weeks redesigning everything, only to learn at week three that 40% of their existing customers found them through a brand-color signal that the new design had eliminated. We restarted the brand pass with the audit in place. The rework cost roughly $14,000 and pushed the launch by 18 days. A two-day audit at the start of an express rebrand is cheap insurance.
Designing the new identity in isolation from the launch surfaces
shows up when the brand work happens in a deck full of mood boards and the team approves a direction that breaks once it hits the actual website hero, the actual sales deck, the actual investor one-pager. Approval gets pulled at week two-and-a-half. Launch slips. One client lost a board-promised relaunch date this way at a previous agency before working with us. The cost: not just the redesign, but the reputational hit of telling the board the launch is moving. Our system: every directional decision tested against the real surfaces, not against an abstract panel.
No SEO continuity plan for the brand-search transition
is the silent loss in most rebrands, compressed or not. The old brand name has years of search authority. The new brand starts at zero. Without redirects, brand mentions, and a coordinated press push timed to launch, brand-search traffic drops 40–60% in month one and takes 6–9 months to recover. Our rebrand express engagement includes a redirect map handoff and a launch sequencing document. Clients who follow it retain ~78% of brand-search traffic month one, with full recovery typically by month three.
Other Services We Offer
We also offer in-depth brand identity work, web design, and ongoing Webflow support — explore the rest of what we do.
Express Rebrand vs Full Rebrand: Cost, Risk, and What Fits
An express rebrand is a real rebrand. It changes the underlying brand inputs — name, positioning, audience, or strategic direction — and it produces a full identity system, not just a refreshed visual layer. The "express" part is the timeline, not the depth. Three weeks instead of twelve, achieved by tight scope and forced decision discipline, not by skipping the work.
Where a fast rebranding engagement sits in the cost spectrum:
- Express rebrand: $18,000–$32,000. Three weeks, fixed scope, single decision-maker per phase. Includes audit, positioning, full identity system, core launch assets, and a 14-day post-launch support window. Best fit when you have an external launch date that does not move.
- Full rebrand: $45,000–$120,000. Eight to twelve weeks, broader scope, stakeholder workshops, extended exploration phase. Best fit when there's no external date pressure and the strategic foundation needs deeper work.
- Brand refresh: $6,500–$12,000. Two weeks, visual layer only, no positioning change. Best fit when the brand still works strategically and only the execution has aged.
- The post-launch support window matters more than people think. Acquisitions especially surface edge cases for weeks — partner-site embeds, legacy email templates, press kit variants — and the 14-day window is what keeps those from becoming a separate engagement.
The strategic distinction between an express rebrand and our sibling Brand Identity rebranding service: the BI version is the deeper, exploratory engagement designed for companies with the runway to do it slowly. Rebrand Express is built for time-boxed reality. Same final deliverable depth, different decision protocol.
When this isn't the right fit: if you don't have an external date and want the deeper exploration, the strategic Rebranding service under Brand Identity is the better engagement. If your brand still works at the strategy level and you only need the visual layer modernized, Brand Refresh in 2 Weeks is the lower-cost option. If you're a startup pre-launch and there's no existing brand to rebrand from, the Startup Branding Package is the build-from-scratch equivalent.