You built your business for your life. For your family, your freedom, your vision of the days you imagined living. Somewhere along the way it flipped. The business stopped being the means and became the thing you serve.
Now you check your phone before your feet hit the floor. Your to-do list follows you into sleep. You don't remember the last time you sat in stillness without your mind racing toward what's next. Quiet makes you uncomfortable. Some part of you is afraid of what will come up if you actually stop.
You're exhausted from over-functioning. You've made yourself available in ways that have slowly cost you yourself. You built something that looks successful from the outside and is a weight you carry from the inside.
Intuitively you know, even if it's hard to say out loud: it doesn't have to be this hard. You don't have to sacrifice yourself to be successful. You just don't know how to build it differently yet.
Most brand strategy stays on the surface. It asks about your ideal client, your positioning, your visual identity. It builds a brand that serves the business. And you serve the brand.
The Studio Commission starts somewhere else entirely.
The Studio Commission builds your brand from who you are and how you want to live.
Your business becomes something that supports your life, the way it was always supposed to.
Twelve weeks.
Strategy, writing, and design,
all built around where you want to go.
How we build your brand
Every commission runs twelve weeks with six one-hour live sessions. Between them, a weekly prompt to go deeper. All strategy, design, writing, and production happens on our side.
01
Discover
Two sessions, one for strategy, one for what lives underneath it. You arrive carrying the business. You leave remembering what it feels like to exhale.
A prompt arrives every week for the full twelve weeks to surface the version of success that doesn't require you to sacrifice yourself to reach it.
02
Shape
You respond to visual directions and voice and tone guidelines developed directly from Discover. Two sessions to review, respond, and refine.
The identity stays deliberately working. Discovery is still running underneath, and what we build in Shape is designed to hold that. Room to shift, room to deepen, room to become more fully itself as you do.
03
Express
The site is designed, written, and built from the same source: what you discovered, what took shape, what you claimed as yours. Two sessions to review design and copy together.
Seeing the brand fully expressed is what tells you whether it fits. Whether it's you.
Each commission includes
Brand strategy built from who you are and how you want to live
A custom website of up to five pages, designed and written for you
Custom wordmark, typography selection, and color palette
A commission book that holds the whole engagement
A 30-day check-in after launch
The Commission Book
A living document that holds the entire engagement. The brand strategy and visual identity. The reasoning behind every decision. Running through all of it are your own words, your own voice, your own answers to every question that came up across twelve weeks. The prompts you responded to. The truths you named. The life you said you wanted.
Your voice is woven through it literally. QR codes throughout link to your own recordings from the process. You, saying it, at the moment it became clear.
It arrives after launch. When the work is done and the brand is in the world, and you can hold the whole thing at once.
And then it becomes what it was always meant to be. The thing you return to when you're planning your next offer and something feels off. When you're drafting an email and can't find the words. When you start to notice the drift, that quiet creeping sense that the business is pulling you somewhere you didn't agree to go. You open it and find yourself. Your own words. The life you said you wanted. The standard you set for how you want to work and who you want to work with.
Every decision that keeps you in alignment is contained here.
Meet Rebecca
Rebecca has spent nearly two decades in creative work, including leading creative services at Forbes Travel Guide. For most of that time she also operated the way most creative professionals do: contract work, referrals, always available, always delivering, always measuring her worth by her output.
Then she had a daughter.
Maternity leave with no childcare and no way to keep up with contract deadlines forced her to stop. What filled the space was a single client, a rebrand that grew into work across multiple brands, steady retainer income she could build during nap times. For the first time, the money wasn't contingent on how many hours she logged. It was contingent on the quality of what she brought.
That untangled something she'd been carrying for years. The belief that worth is tied to output. That you have to hustle to deserve it. That the business gets to make the rules and you adjust your life around it.
She stopped adjusting. She stopped waiting for her life to start.
The Studio Commission is what she built from that. A process that starts where every other brand strategy stops: with the founder, with what they actually want, and with the life the business is supposed to be serving.
Each commission runs twelve weeks from kickoff to launch.
$12,500
Paid in three installments
50% at kickoff, 25% at week 5, 25% at week 10.
A conversation first
Forty-five minutes over Zoom. We'll talk about what you're building and where you sense you're heading. There's nothing to prepare.
Prefer to write first? Send a note instead.
Frequently asked questions
How is The Studio Commission different from a traditional brand agency?
Most brand agencies start with the business. What you do, who you serve, how you position. The Studio Commission starts with you. Your values, your aspirations, and how you want to run your business. We believe your business shouldn't compete with your life. When your brand is built from who you are, it doesn't have to.
What kind of founders do you work with?
Founders who built their business for their life and somewhere lost the thread. Founders who are doing well enough on the outside and quietly exhausted on the inside. Founders who have done the strategy work, know their positioning, and still feel like something fundamental is off. Founders who are ready to build from who they actually are, not who the business needs them to be.
What is the cost of a commission?
A commission is $12,500, paid in three installments across the twelve weeks. Additional scope, additional pages, a full logo suite, or photography direction are priced case by case. Pricing is discussed during the inquiry conversation and confirmed before any work begins.
What happens if I want changes during the process?
The commission includes structured review moments because collaboration and iteration are part of the process. What it doesn't include is indefinite rework. Trusting the process, and the practitioner leading it, is part of what this model asks of you.
Do you build e-commerce sites or membership platforms?
E-commerce, membership sites, and complex integrations are outside the standard commission scope. Commissions that involve any of these are custom in scope, pricing, and timeline. This can be discussed during an inquiry.
What platforms do you build on?
Websites are built on WordPress using Elementor Pro. This platform is chosen because it offers the design flexibility of custom code with the operational simplicity that founders can maintain themselves after launch, without ongoing developer dependency.
Begin a commission
The Studio Commission accepts three commissions each quarter.
If a commission feels right for the work you're building, tell us about it. We'll respond within two business days.