A message people repeat
Creative strategy that turns your idea into one sentence customers and investors remember.
A first brand that grows with you.
Yes, we launch startup brands.
- A clear message for your idea
- A real brand and a website that can grow
- Without a big agency's overhead
For founders who need a clear message, a real brand and a website that can grow, without paying for a big agency's overhead.
Founders have more ideas than time
Early on, everything feels urgent: the name, the logo, the site, the pitch, the app. It is easy to build a lot quickly and end up with pieces that do not fit.
Astrem helps founders slow down just long enough to name the audience and the message, then builds the brand and the site on that plan. If there is an app in the picture, Evan consults on it from concept to technology choice.
- Audience and message first
- A brand identity that can scale
- A website built to grow
- App development consultation
What matters most for startups
Get these right first and everything after is easier.
A brand built to last
A logo and identity system with guidelines, so the brand holds together as the team grows.
A site that can grow
A website planned in writing, launched lean and ready to add pages, campaigns and content.
Your idea on one page
An example brief, agreed before the brand and site are built.
- Audience
- Busy parents in Baton Rouge suburbs
- One message
- Real Louisiana dinners in twenty minutes
- Voice
- Warm, practical, a little proud
- First build
- Brand, a launch site and a waitlist
- Later
- Ordering app and subscriptions
Launch lean, then double down
Start with the pieces that prove the idea, then put more effort behind what customers respond to.
How we work with founders
Focused on what you need now, planned for what comes next.
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Name the audience
We define who you serve first and the problem you solve for them.
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Shape the brand
We create the name treatment, identity and message that fit that audience.
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Launch the site
We plan and build a lean site that can grow with new pages and campaigns.
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Plan the next build
For apps and software, we map the product and the technology before development.
Where founders usually get their brand
A plain comparison of the usual routes.
| Compared on | Astrem | A logo marketplace | A large agency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strategy | Audience and message first | None | Extensive and slow |
| Brand | A full identity with guidelines | A logo file | A full identity |
| Website | Planned and built by the same studio | Not included | Separate team |
| Who you work with | Evan, hands-on | An anonymous designer | An account team |
| How it is scoped | A project sized to your stage | Per item | Large retainers |
What startup clients use most
The foundations that make everything after easier.
- Creative strategy and messaging
- Logo and identity system
- Brand guidelines
- A launch website
- CRM and automation setup
- App development consultation
Questions from startup founders
Something else? Call (225) 332-8002 or book a chat and ask Evan directly.
Yes. Every engagement is scoped as a project after a first conversation, sized to what you need now, and it can grow with you.
The message comes first, then the brand, then the site. We can do all three in one engagement so they fit together.
Evan consults on web and mobile apps, from refining the concept to choosing the technology and development approach, and scopes the build with you.
Yes. Creative strategy produces one clear message and audience definition you can use in your pitch as well as on your site.
No. Work is project-based. You choose the next project when you are ready.
Keep exploring
More ways we can help
Creative strategyAudience, messaging and a plan everyone agrees on, mapped before a website, a brand or a campaign is built.Read more 
Branding and identityLogos, identity systems, messaging and brand guidelines, built on research into your audience so the brand looks and sounds the same wherever people meet it.Read more 
Software and appsCRM and marketing software set up for how your team actually works, plus app development consultation from the first idea to the right build.Read more
Let's map your project.
Contact
Tell us what you are working on and roughly where the budget sits. Evan reads every one and replies within a business day.
- (225) 332-8002
- evan@astrem.co
- Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm CST
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