Branding for consultancies and professional services.
A consultancy sells what cannot yet be seen: knowledge, method and trust. The brand is what makes that visible before the first meeting.
Brands of consultancies and professional services.
What a services company asks of the brand
- 01The company grew under the partners' names, and the name has become too small for the ambition of the business.
- 02The brand lives on trust, and the identity needs to earn it before the first conversation.
- 03Each office applies the brand in its own way, and a standard for the whole company is missing.
- 04The brand was created years ago and needs to evolve without losing the value it has built.
Brands that live on trust
Ibbra, a wealth-management consultancy with more than 1,200 families served, had its brand renewed by BR/BAUEN ten years after it was created, respecting and expanding the value built.
For Allnorth, a multidisciplinary engineering consultancy, the project included an online Brand Central to standardise the identity across the company.
How a project runs
- 01 First conversation
- With a meeting to understand the client's universe. That is where expectations and questions enter the process and the first solutions start to be imagined. The programme, of 3, 6 or 9 months, comes out of it.
- 02 Strategy
- Understanding your market, diagnosing the brand's real position and making the decisions everything else will be built on. Interviews, research and diagnosis, up to the brand platform.
- 03 Language
- What the brand is called, how it sounds, how it looks and how it moves. Verbal and visual are born together: naming, tone of voice and a complete visual system.
- 04 Experience
- The systems, the guidelines and the training so the brand is applied consistently by the people who live it every day in the company.
“Our partnership with BRBAUEN goes back a long way. We worked hand in hand and arrived at a material with real depth and personality.”
Managing Partner, Séren Incorporadora
“Working with BRBAUEN was a surprising experience — for the creativity, the ease of the relationship and the ability to propose innovations that truly make sense for the business and add value.”
Managing Partner, Telgo Telecom
“This moved me. I tell my children that when I grow old I will become a painter. They said I would need to learn how to paint, but my dream is to paint with food, expressively, the way you created the Cucina Mia brand.”
Chef and TV host, Grupo Globo / GNT
“We were impressed with BRBAUEN's portfolio and their focus on results. Location didn't matter; project management did. They excelled at communication, process and understanding our goals. Their responsiveness, attention to detail and talent made them one of the best decisions we have made.”
Marketing Director, Allnorth
“I am extremely satisfied with the investments we have made with BR/BAUEN. Ten years after they created the brand, we came back to evolve our positioning with them, for their professionalism and their ability to understand the company's goals and turn it all into a solid strategy, simply and objectively. I always recommend them; they will be with us for our whole journey.”
CEO and Founder, IBBRA
“Since the brand launched in June 2023 we have seen an average 30% increase in sales, a number that speaks for itself. The new brand not only captured the essence of what we wanted to convey, it also resonated deeply with our customers.”
Head of Marketing & CRM, Grupo Saga
“We thank the BR/BAUEN team for the work, dedication and brilliance. You met and exceeded our expectations, and we look forward to future projects together. Thank you for making our brand stronger and more relevant in the market.”
Founder, Além do Olhar
“After an excellent experience with Rodrigo and the BR/BAUEN team at a previous company, I couldn't think of any other team I wanted to collaborate with to build out the NewCastle brand. Their work illustrated that NewCastle Gold was a serious market contender for investors and companies looking to acquire or merge with a junior asset.”
Director, Communities & Social Performance, Rio Tinto · formerly Director of IR & Corporate Communications, NewCastle Gold
In-house branding or a specialised consultancy?
Both, in different roles. The internal team knows the day-to-day and the culture, but risks losing the distance needed to see how the brand is perceived from outside. The consultancy comes in without internal biases, with dedicated method and research, and depends on the team's collaboration to capture the reality of the business. The consultancy builds and reviews the strategy; the in-house team sustains the brand every day.
How do you align leadership around a new positioning?
By having leadership decide instead of approve. Each leader is interviewed alone at the start, before hearing the others' version; the gaps between those interviews become research questions. In the stages that follow, diagnosis, platform and identity, leadership validates against the data, and every decision is recorded with its reasoning.
How much does a branding project for consultancies cost?
The investment depends on the programme, of 3, 6 or 9 months, the size of the company and the depth of the research. The programme and the investment are defined from the first conversation, when we understand where the brand stands and the goal of the project.
How long does a branding project take?
BR/BAUEN programmes run for 3, 6 or 9 months. What changes between them is the depth of the research and the reach of the delivery, from the brand platform to full implementation, with brandbook, design system and team training.
How do we start a project with BR/BAUEN?
Request a meeting through the form on this page or via WhatsApp. In the first conversation we understand where the brand stands and suggest the most suitable programme. We reply within two business days.