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Creative & Conversion Design

A brand identity AI engines recognize as the authority in your industry.

A visual identity paired with the structured signals AI engines read. Your design tokens live in code and your schema markup defines the business as an entity, so the brand stays consistent because the infrastructure enforces it.

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The challenge
Most small business brand identities were designed for a world of websites and printed business cards. A logo, a colour palette, a type system, and a brand guide nobody opens. The places your brand shows up have multiplied, from web and mobile to AI chat answers, to voice assistants and dark mode, to platforms that did not exist two years ago. Your brand looks different on every channel because the system has no enforcement. And AI engines that could position you as the authority have no structured signals to work with because your identity exists as visual assets, not as data they can read.
How we solve it
On Story and Engine builds we design the brand identity in code, not just in Figma. Tailwind tokens carry the colours, the type scale, the spacing, and every component variant, all enforced at the build step, and the light, dark, and high-contrast modes adapt on their own. The visual layer is real brand work: a distinctive identity and a typographic system that holds its shape on any screen size. The structural layer is the part most agencies miss: Organization and LocalBusiness schema that defines your business as an entity, PersonJsonLd on the owner with knowsAbout and certifications, brandLogo markup, sameAs links to your social and directory profiles, and consistent naming patterns that AI engines map to your domain expertise. The result is a brand that looks good to humans and reads as an authority to ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude.

Key benefits

Semantic Brand Architecture

Your brand identity carries machine-readable entity definitions and consistent naming patterns, structured so an AI system can connect them and start treating you as an authority in your field.

Design System as Code

Every brand element lives as a design token in your component library. Colour and type, the spacing between things, the variants of each component, all of it is set in code, which closes the gap between the design file and what actually ships.

Adaptive Brand Behavior

Your brand adjusts to its context, whether that is light or dark mode, a small viewport, an accessibility need, or a platform's own constraints. It is one system that knows how to present itself correctly anywhere.

Authority Signal Design

Content patterns, proof point frameworks, and trust architecture designed to establish and reinforce your brand's authority across both traditional and AI-mediated discovery channels.

Our process

  1. 01

    Brand Audit & Positioning

    We analyze your current brand presence across every digital touchpoint, assess competitive positioning, and define the strategic territory your brand should own in both human perception and AI understanding.

  2. 02

    Identity System Design

    We design the visual identity, the typography, the colour system, and the components. Alongside that we build the semantic brand architecture underneath: how your business is defined as an entity, how its knowledge connects, and what signals mark it as an authority.

  3. 03

    Design Token Implementation

    Your brand system is implemented as design tokens and React components. Every visual decision becomes enforceable code that ensures consistency across every developer and every page.

  4. 04

    Brand Governance & Evolution

    We hand over full documentation, train your team, and set up the tools that keep the brand in line. The process lets the brand keep evolving while staying consistent and leaving room for creative work inside known limits.

100%

Brand consistency across all digital touchpoints with token-based systems

3x

Faster page development velocity with pre-built brand components

45%

Improvement in brand recognition scores after semantic brand architecture implementation

Zero

Off-brand digital experiences when brand tokens enforce design decisions in code

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The same insights, built in two structural layers: the human layer reads well, and the AI layer underneath ships clean schema, definitional opening paragraphs, and citation-ready claim-evidence pairs.

Conversion UX Design

We design for the action that pays you, a booking or a quote request, using behavioral data and steady testing rather than design by committee, so every section on the page has to earn its place.

Industries that ship this

Boutique Retail

Boutique retailers sites with Store schema.

Restaurants

Restaurants and cafes sites with Restaurant schema.

Fitness Studios

Fitness studios and gyms sites with ExerciseGym schema.

Real Estate

Real estate agents and developers sites with RealEstateAgent schema.

Custom Home Builders

Custom builders sites with HomeBuilder schema.

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