Branding

Designing an enduring identity: strategy and research meet creativity.

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Brand Strategy & Market Positioning

A strong brand is more than just a logo—it’s your identity, reputation, and competitive edge. Catalystas helps businesses, NGOs, and public institutions craft a unique and compelling brand that effectively communicates their mission, values, and impact. Through a collaborative, data-driven approach, we define brand attributes that differentiate you in the market, enhance visibility, and build trust with key stakeholders.

Brand Definition & Identity Development

We guide your team through a co-creative brand definition process, ensuring that your brand statement, messaging, and visual identity authentically reflect your mission and resonate with your audience. Our structured brand-building exercises engage executives, marketing teams, and key stakeholders to ensure strategic alignment.

Strategic Goals & Positioning

Without clear goals, there’s no direction. Catalystas facilitates goal-setting workshops to define priorities in brand awareness, revenue growth, audience engagement, and operational efficiency. We help translate these goals into a feasible timeline and execution roadmap, aligning your branding efforts with business growth and market expansion strategies.

Target Audience & Market Research

Understanding your audience is key to brand success. Catalystas conducts target audience research and customer segmentation analysis, helping organizations identify their ideal clients, partners, and beneficiaries. Whether working in B2B, B2C, donor-funded programs, or policy advocacy, we develop actionable insights to position your brand effectively and drive engagement. From brand positioning to audience research and strategic storytelling, Catalystas ensures that your brand stands out in a crowded landscape, driving growth, trust, and long-term success.

Brand Architecture

Catalystas can support your organization by evaluating how your brands, sub-brands, and other offerings are organized and how they relate to each other. This can help your brand to: Stay organized internally: identifying loopholes in organizational structure, and developing communication strategies to ensure the brand remains aligned internally. Manage perception: Developing brand architecture to manage the perception of your brand and your offerings among outside audiences, alongside ensuring smooth internal operations. Create Synergy: Creating synergy among the child and parent brands, against larger brand promises and the ultimate goals of your organization.

Brand Positioning

Catalystas can lead you through the process of positioning your brand, conducting market research, and guiding your team to build research capacity. We will help you determine what makes your brand unique, what draws your customers or audience in, and how your brand and organization are viewed externally. Our experts work through a three-stage process, tailored to your organization’s needs, including analysis of both internal capabilities and market traits, positioning statement development, and reflection for alignment.

Brand Audits

Organizational consistency is key to long-term success. As leadership and staff evolve, your organizational approach may also change - whether intended or not. Our experts conduct comprehensive brand audits to assess your organization's current positioning and develop strategies to ensure a cohesive and enduring brand identity. This process enables you to maintain a strong, consistent presence over time, regardless of internal changes. Our brand audit consists of three key components: Internal Branding: Positioning, Brand Values, Unique Selling Proposition (USP), Brand Promise, Brand Essence, Voice, Culture, Product / Service Positioning External Branding: Corporate Identity, Collateral Brochures, Print Materials, Trade Show Displays, Advertising, Website, SEO, Social Media, Civic-involvement, News/PR, Content Marketing, Blogs, White Papers, Case Studies, Articles, Books, Testimonials, Videos Systems and Infrastructure: Corporate Identity/Brand Standards, HR Policies/Onboarding Process, Sales Processes/Touch Points, Internal Systems, Institutional Knowledge Management, Customer Experience

Brand Alignment

Catalystas’ experts can help your team by conducting a brand alignment study to measure how well your organization is fulfilling its brand promises, and how well your employees understand and communicate your brand’s key messages. Are your people on the same page when it comes to describing your brand and service offerings? And once your firm has been hired, do they do the things they said they would? Brand alignment gets you to “yes” on both counts.

Brand Alignment

Catalystas can help your organization from the outset: crafting a clear, unique, and captivating brand identity, with highly memorable taglines and logos that reflect your vision and values while relating to your audience base. We will help you design, develop, and build your brand from the basic foundations to the finishing touches. Basic Identity: Naming and Tag-lines, Logo Design, Logo Variations, Logo Application Identity Guideline: Logo Usage Guideline, Color Palettes, Typography, Iconography, Pattern, Photography Style, Video Editing Style Brand UX/UI: Marketing Materials, Multimedia Production, Web Design & Development, Digital Marketing

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We built Lysta as an answer to one of our own problems: the need to quickly assemble teams of experts across various subject matter, geographic, linguistic, and thematic areas for projects and proposals as they arise. We quickly realized that we were not the only ones facing this challenge! With the speed that development projects require hiring, turnaround, and technical insights, we see first hand how helpful it is to have a ready-made database of vetted experts to call on.

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