The Icon Method

The most powerful personal brands are discoveries.We find the sentence. Then we give it a face, a voice and proof.

You've spent your whole life becoming who you are. The Icon Method finds that, names it, and makes it visible everywhere people look you up.

Four steps

It starts with being seen.

01See

The Identity Session

A guided conversation about your history, your convictions and the moments that shaped you. Sixty to ninety minutes, sometimes two hours. It runs as long as it needs.

02Say

The sentence

The insights get written down and turned into your editorial angle, an authority map, and the two sentences the market should know you by.

03Show

The evidence

Editorial portraits, film, a LaunchPad episode, short-form edits and published features, all built as proof of who you already are.

04Stand

On your own

Your image, words and presence carry it without anyone standing next to you. Every engagement ends with a review of what we built and where the best openings are.

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Three depths

Choose how far we go.

Every depth opens with the Identity Session. Prices start where they're shown, and final scope depends on what you need. We'll say so plainly on the first call.

I · Origin

Be seen as you are now

For founders with a real business and a name in their space, whose public presence hasn't caught up yet.

What's included
  • Identity Session
  • One editorial session, 30 finished images
  • A LaunchPad Sessions mini-episode
  • 15 short-form edits
  • Three published features

From $15,000For proven founders

II · Orbit

A fuller story

For founders whose next chapter needs more than a new face: a fuller story, told in motion.

What's included
  • Identity Session
  • Three editorial concepts, 60 images
  • A brand film
  • A full LaunchPad episode and 30 edits
  • Three published features
  • 30 days of support

From $36,000For a bigger next chapter

III · Ascension

A platform

For founders building a platform, a category or a movement, with the full house behind them.

What's included
  • Identity Session
  • Five editorial concepts, 150 images
  • A brand film, two episodes, 60 edits
  • A brand identity system
  • An offer architecture intensive
  • At least three published features
  • A 90-day LinkedIn campaign
  • 90 days of stewardship

From $95,000By application

One of the best investments I've made into my business so far, and I've made a LOT of investments into my business.

Julie Santiago

Icon Circle

Authority compounds when it's held.

Some clients finish the Method and carry it on their own. Others want a creative and strategic partner as the brand keeps growing.

Icon Circle is that partnership: regular shoots and content, new opportunities as they open, and Planet Ü in the room for the next chapter. From $10,000 a month, twelve months at a time, by application.

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Questions

Is it right for you?

Who is this for?

Founders, experts and thought leaders who've already shown people will follow them and pay for what they know. Often you're good at too many things to say what you do in one sentence.

Who isn't it for?

Anyone who wants an image they haven't earned. We don't invent credentials or build authority that isn't there. And if you need convincing that this work matters, it's probably not the right time.

Do I need new photos first?

No. Photos come after the Identity Session. What you think you need on day one is usually not what we end up making.

Is the Identity Session therapy?

No. It can go deep, and people sometimes cry. It's a creative conversation, and it never stands in for a doctor or a therapist.

What happens when it's over?

We sit down and look at what we built, how people are responding and where the best openings are. Then you decide whether to carry it on alone or join Icon Circle.

Your whole life has been writing one sentence.

Let's find it. Start with a conversation, and we'll tell you which depth fits, or whether the Sprint is the better first step.

Let's talk