When buyers can't tell you apart, they buy on price. We fix the reason why.

We help you own a market nobody else sees yet.

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  1. The strategy

    North Star Rising

    $75,000 — all in. · 3-4 weeks

    Our full brand positioning and go-to-market strategy engagement: category, narrative, and the North Star document that guides product, sales, and fundraising.

    Part of the North Star family — it scales down to a $5,000 pre-funding sprint and up to full-service category design with 9elements.

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  2. The follow-through

    Category Ascent

    $20,000 — all in. · 3 months

    Category design consulting for implementation — weekly guidance, with coaching folded in, to help you put the strategy to work, not just hand it over.

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Andreas Gebhard with the founders of Hypecast at Web Summit 2024
With the founders of Hypecast at Web Summit 2024 — read their story.
Why this works

Not a framework we made up

Our methodology, North Star Momentum, sits in the lineage of category design popularized by the book Play Bigger — the practice of naming and owning a market category instead of competing inside someone else's. We didn't invent the idea; we apply it, with a specific process and a track record of doing it for real companies. Read the full explanation