Narrative Advisory
We help businesses define the story people actually understand.
First we make the story clear. Then we help you build the branding around it.
The problem we name
If your business isn't converting the way it should, the problem usually isn't marketing. It's that no one understands who you are.
Marketing only amplifies a message. If the message underneath is unclear, louder just means more people hear something confusing.
You don't have a reach problem. You have a clarity problem.
Where we sit
Get the story right and branding has something true to dress, and marketing has something clear to amplify.
01 · Branding
makes you
recognisable.
02 · Marketing
makes you
heard.
03 · Narrative
makes you understood.
We do the third — so the first two can work.
The 1/8th principle
We don't help you say more. We help you say less, so people understand you the first time.
You don't pitch everything you can do. We help you choose the eighth people remember — the one that earns you the right to the rest. Try it:
Clarity. Story. Understanding.
We help businesses define the story people actually understand.
Not branding, not marketing. We work on the narrative underneath both — because before any of it works, your business has to make sense to a human being. We help you say less, so people understand you the first time.
Most businesses that aren’t converting don’t have a marketing problem — they have a clarity problem. No one quite understands who they are. Aubrey North is a boutique narrative advisory. We strip a business back to what it actually is, what its customer actually feels, and where the two have come apart — then rebuild the story so it is understood immediately, feels intentional, and earns trust. We don’t help you say more. We help you say less, clearly.
Restraint is the craft. We subtract until it's true.
How we work
We work in the next three to six months — not the next ten years.
The diagnosis is free. The implementation is what you pay for.
Boutique by design. Select markets.
The First Note
We take a look at where your story is losing people, and our proposed change to fix it — written up as a short Aubrey North Note. The diagnosis is yours, and it's your decision whether or not you take it further. New businesses, once.
The Rewrite
We build the plan with you and make the fixes it calls for — starting with your positioning (what you do, and who it's for), then the one page or pitch that needs it most. A fixed scope at a fixed price.
The Intensive
Several focused weeks implementing your new positioning across every part of the business people see — your website, your deck, how the team describes what you do, the words and the design. Where the Rewrite corrects the single biggest issue, the Intensive goes through every layer, so everything is aligned.
Ongoing Advisory
We stay on as your advisor, keeping the story consistent as the business evolves — a new product, a new market, a pivot, a new hire. By invitation, for businesses we've already worked with.
The First Note
We take a look at where people misread you and what you do, and our proposed change to fix it — written up as a short Aubrey North Note. The diagnosis is yours, and it's your decision whether or not you take it further. New founders and creators, once.
The Rewrite
We build the plan with you and help implement the fixes — starting with your positioning: who you are, who you're for, and how to earn attention in your own style. From there we improve where it shows — your bio, your profile, your posts. A fixed scope at a fixed price.
The Intensive
Several focused weeks implementing your new positioning across every place people find you — your bio, your profile, your talks, your posts. Where the Rewrite corrects the single biggest issue, the Intensive goes through every layer, so you come across the same no matter the platform.
Coffee + Chat
A relaxed conversation about where the friction is.
Tell us about the business, where it is, where you want it — and most of all, what you want a customer to feel on contact. Complimentary. No obligation.
Where every First Note begins.
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