Even in a logical B2B decision, we ask “what will this say about me?”, “how will I feel if I’ve got to defend it?”
That feeling makes 70% of the decisions we make. So, to us, design is a science before it’s art. We start by finding human insights in between the commercial metrics that are trying to neatly explain behaviour.
That’s how we build brands that matter more.
A Very Small Strategy & Design Studio
Brands that matter grow more than twice as fast as their competitors*
Before anyone can start a rational analysis; identity, desire and social pressures frame every thought. That’s why being the best on paper isn’t enough.
The cases in our portfolio all began the same way: a brief that described one problem, and research that showed the limiting factor was a different one.
We watch real behaviour, to define why people do what they do in their specific commercial and consumer contexts. Without it, the only guides are composite averages and personal preference. By desinging for emotional and social outcomes, we're not just making things look different, we’re building with the primary driver that helps brands grow twice as fast.
And we design through the same systematic lens, so the insight that made the strategy powerful is felt clearly in every thing a customer experiences.
The cases in our portfolio all began the same way: a brief that described one problem, and research that showed the limiting factor was a different one.
We watch real behaviour, to define why people do what they do in their specific commercial and consumer contexts. Without it, the only guides are composite averages and personal preference. By desinging for emotional and social outcomes, we're not just making things look different, we’re building with the primary driver that helps brands grow twice as fast.
And we design through the same systematic lens, so the insight that made the strategy powerful is felt clearly in every thing a customer experiences.
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Ampleforth
A DeFi protocol with genuine technical innovation and a brand that made it impossible to explain, creating a 14% token price lift to $80MUSD.
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Amorecco
A product at the intersection of luxury fragrance and sensory wellness — a combination the market didn't have a name for yet.
Coming Soon
MetaWealth | Retail
60% of people who were already interested in the product were excluding themselves from it before they ever started a rational validation.
Should a Corporate Have Emotional Feel?
A Cyber Insurance Proposal Form is a legal document, but if due process is where buyers spend the most time with your brand; then the feel of that process will define how you're remembered. If it’s cold and clunky, then what are you?
Onda AI, an insurtech, asked us to create their customer quotation system, but the real brief was to make end-user-brokers look and feel like calm, confident experts.
Onda AI, an insurtech, asked us to create their customer quotation system, but the real brief was to make end-user-brokers look and feel like calm, confident experts.
An Emotional System
The pionner of collaborative risk response in insurtech should feel collaborative and connected.
Risk Visualisation
The industry wants always-on urgency, but better decisions are calm and considered.
Brand-feel Due Process
Onboarding and Proposal flows mapped to real-world pick up, put down and hand over.
Calm, Confident Control
If every element in a risk dashboard is designed to signal priority, then nothing is.
Feel Tested in Every Channel
The undercurrent of market-mature consistency
Native Admin Layer
Broker-friendly controls, designed to keep the pace in sales flows.
“Every decision is driven by emotional and social levers. Brands need to be intentional about the impression they leave.”
Joey Burrow, Practice Lead
Building brands that matter to their buyers in tech, finance, insurance, consumer, and sustainability.
