OOD
OOD Reasons Process Services Pricing

AI follows patterns Great brands break them OOD tells you which ones

AI-native agency built exclusively for startups,
combining AI speed with human expert judgement
to build distinctive brands at a fraction of market price

OOD stands for out-of-distribution

In machine learning, out-of-distribution is what a model can’t predict.The data point that doesn’t follow the pattern it was trained on.That’s the point of a brand.

YOUR BRAND YOUR MARKET

5 reasons to use OOD

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We compound your brand into an edge that lasts

AI makes it easy to build and copy products. OOD helps you compound everything you do into a strong brand which competition can’t copy. Making it easier to raise from investors, align employees, win over customers and accelerate growth.

“Brand is what’s left when the substantive differences between products disappear. But making the substantive differences between products disappear is what technology naturally tends to do. So what happened to the Swiss watch industry is not merely an interesting outlier. It’s very much a story of our times.”
PAUL GRAHAM READ THE ESSAY ↗

We use human experts to differentiate

LLMs follow patterns to predict the next likely output.
AI will give you a brand that makes sense for you, and for everyone else. 
OOD uses human experts to deliver a differentiated brand, only you can own.

Provide the brief YOU
Structure company, customer and competitor context AI
Map current brand AI
Review context and current brand, set direction on the brief EXPERT
Build v1 of the brief AI
Rview, edit and deliver output EXPERT

We deliver your brief within days

AI delivers slop in minutes.
Traditional agencies deliver polished work in weeks.
OOD delivers strategically sound and scalable brand work in days.

With battle scars from spending years inside startups, scale-ups and multinationals, our experts build brands that not only look pretty, but are commercially effective.

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We charge a fraction of market price

AI does 80% of the heavy lifting for the v1.
You only pay for the 20% where our brand experts spends time on:
Review output, ingest creative ideas, ensure differentiation and brand best practices.

AI — 80% OF THE V1 EXPERT REVIEW — WHAT YOU PAY

We compound your context from day one

OOD is affordable before your raise your first VC round. 
Working with you from Day 1 we understand you better than anyone else. 
That context compounds, making every output faster, sharper and more consistent. 

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How it works

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Submit request

Share your brief and NDA, if required.

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Upfront flat fee

Receive a signed NDA and flat fee.

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Share context

Accept fee and provide any context available.

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OOD drafts

Our proprietary AI workflows generate a first draft based on brand best practices and expert creative input.

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Expert reviews

Our global brand experts review, tune and quality-assure every output.

Services

Brand Audit +
01Brand Strategy 02Identity 03Assets
Brand Strategy +
01Manifesto 02Vision 03Mission 04Promise 05Benefits 06Proof-points 07Metrics
Brand Identity +
01Name 02Personality 03Tone of Voice 04Word Mark 05Logo 06Tagline 07Colors 08Typography 09Imagery* 10Iconography* 11Video & Motion* 12Sonic*

*Delivered with partners.

Brand Assets +
01Website 02Investor Pitch 03Customer Pitch

Pricing

PER BRIEF
$100–1,000 AVERAGE / BRIEF
One revision included
Upfront flat fee, quoted on your brief
Delivered in days
RETAINER
$5,000 / MONTH
All services included
Unlimited revisions
Minimum 3 months

Price depends on quality and volume of context available, since it influences the speed and resources required to deliver high-quality brand work.

See the work we’ve done from the inside

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