Founded on one idea.

That the agency model was broken — not at the edges, but at the foundation.

Brands were being charged seven-figure retainers for slides nobody read, then asked to pay a separate vendor to make the work the slides described. The people doing the thinking didn't ship. The people shipping had never read the strategy.

So we built a studio with one team from end to end. The writer who frames the positioning sits next to the designer who draws the logo, who sits next to the engineer building the site, who shares a Slack channel with the media buyer running the launch.

It turns out that when the people doing the work also did the thinking, the work gets noticeably better — and the timelines get cut in half.

Six principles. No exceptions.

01

Senior on every call.

No junior account managers running point. The person you meet on day one is the person reviewing the work on day ninety. If a partner can't make the call, the call moves.

02

Ten partners a year.

A hard cap. It keeps the work sharp, the team rested, and the answer to "can we add a workstream?" almost always yes. We turn down more business than we take.

03

Strategy that ships.

We don't write strategy decks that die in a drawer. Every strategic recommendation we make has a corresponding asset, channel, or test attached to it before we leave the room.

04

Show the math.

If we're going to take credit for a 4× lift, we'll also show you the experimental design that proves it. Brand work and performance work answer to the same scoreboard.

05

Fewer, larger.

We'd rather make one campaign that lives in a museum than ten that disappear in a feed. Same for products, identities, and films. Volume is a strategy choice, not a deliverable.

06

Hire the whole human.

Our designers write. Our writers shoot. Our engineers can argue about kerning. The hybridity is the entire point — it's why our work doesn't look like committee.

What a Launch engagement actually looks like.

Wk 01 – 03

Listen closely.

Customer interviews, stakeholder workshops, category audit, sales and CRM data review. We come back with a sharp read of where the brand can credibly go — and where it can't.

12–30 interviews
3–5 workshops
Category map
Insight readout
Wk 04 – 06

Choose a stance.

Positioning, narrative platform, messaging architecture, naming and verbal identity. One point of view your team can defend in a boardroom and your customers can recite back.

Positioning doc
Narrative platform
Messaging matrix
Tone & voice
Wk 06 – 14

Make the work.

Identity, design system, packaging, content, film, site, product. The entire creative engine fires in parallel — strategy informs craft, craft pressure-tests strategy. Weekly creative reviews with leadership.

Identity system
Site / app
Campaign film
Social / OOH
Wk 14 – 18

Ship it.

Production, post, QA, paid media set-up, launch sequencing. We don't disappear at handoff — we sit in the war room through go-live and the first weeks of measurement.

Launch plan
Paid media setup
Measurement model
Go-live war room
Wk 18 – 22

Compound it.

Post-launch optimization, creative iteration based on real-world data, performance reviews with leadership. By the time we leave, your team can run the playbook without us.

Performance review
Creative iteration
Handoff & training
Year-one roadmap

The people who'll make the work.

IM

Iris Marchetti

Founder · Creative Director

Spent eight years at Wieden+Kennedy and a stint at Pentagram before founding Clyvonna. Leads brand and identity work.

RK

Rasmus Kjær

Head of Strategy

Ex-McKinsey brand strategist. Believes strategy without a deliverable is a hallucination. Leads positioning and narrative.

NO

Naima Olabi

Director of Production

Eight years directing commercials, music videos, and one feature documentary. Runs the film and content practice.

DV

Devon Voss

Head of Growth

Built the in-house media practice at two unicorns before joining. Leads performance, CRM, and measurement.

Studio roster · 28 total

Asha WhelanStrategist
Beren SatoDesigner
Caro LindeWriter
Dante RuizEngineer
Elin MarkowskiDesigner
Felix ChenDirector
Gita HalevyProducer
Hadley ParkStrategist
Inez BravaWriter
Jude OkaforEngineer
Klara VogtDesigner
Leo MarstenGrowth Lead
Mira HalloranProducer
Nico PereiraDP
Otis VanceEditor
Petra KovačDesigner
Quinn SaitoEngineer
Rhea SolbergStrategist
Soren AldridgeMedia Buyer
Tomás FierroDesigner
Uma HartwellOperations
Vivienne LaoWriter
Wren AusterProducer
Xavi RomeroEngineer

What people have written about us.

2025 Fast Company Named to the World's Most Innovative Companies — Marketing & Advertising sector. Feature
2025 It's Nice That An interview with our founder on running a studio under a hard headcount cap. Profile
2024 Ad Age "Agency of the Year" finalist — for the Halo Foods rebrand and Polaris campaign. Finalist
2024 Brand New A detailed teardown of the Sable & Mast identity system, by Armin Vit. Review
2024 Eye Magazine A six-page feature on our editorial work for Ostara Records. Feature
2023 Creative Review Annual Top 50 studios — Clyvonna ranked #14 in its first inclusion. Ranking
2023 Adweek Profile of our growth practice — "Brand and performance, finally on the same team." Profile
Careers · Hiring slowly

We hire whole humans.

We hire two or three people a year, very deliberately. We pay above market for senior talent, work a four-and-a-half-day week, and offer four weeks of paid leave plus the entire last week of the year off. Open roles update when they exist — we don't accept speculative applications.

careers@clyvonna.com
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