‍brand growth for unfinished business

9 Designs®  is aN UNRIVALLED strategy-led brand growth studio For established, mid-sized businesses with a rather immodest future in mind.

OUR PRACTICE

An immodest ambition rarely fits neatly into one discipline. We bring strategy, identity, design, websites, digital infrastructure and marketing together, giving every part a clear role in the business you intend to become.

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Brand Strategy & Positioning

before a business commands attention, it needs to know what it stands for. Through research, interviews and workshops, we clarify purpose, vision, values, audiences and positioning, giving your team a shared direction and your customers a compelling reason to choose you.

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Rebranding & Brand Identity

Your next chapter deserves an identity equal to it. We translate strategic direction into naming, visual identity, personality, voice and messaging, preserving what matters while giving the business a distinctive expression of what comes next.

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Creative Design & Print

A remarkable identity should remain remarkable wherever it appears. We carry the thinking through presentations, brochures, campaigns, packaging, signage and print, with the originality and precision to make every application unmistakably yours.

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Web Design & Development

Exceptional businesses deserve rather more than a competent website. We bring strategy, content, customer journeys, distinctive design and bespoke interactions together, then develop the experience to express your brand, serve its audiences and support its commercial ambitions.

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Digital Systems & Automation

What happens after someone clicks matters as much as what persuaded them to. We connect websites, customer management systems, automation, communities and custom platforms, supporting the experience customers are promised and the people responsible for delivering it.

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Brand-Led Marketing & Growth

A remarkable brand deserves to make itself known. We connect search, content, email and advertising around the brand strategy, then measure and improve how that activity supports demand, customer relationships and the business’s next commercial ambition.

A successful business still has unfinished business

There comes a point in the life of a well-run company when its brand begins to belong to an earlier chapter. Nobody plans for this. It arrives gradually, through years of new work and greater ambitions, until the impression people receive no longer reflects the business they would find inside.Sometimes growth creates that distance. Sometimes a change of direction makes it impossible to ignore. We usually meet our clients in one of six situations.

Joy Lynskey

Founder · Interior Design

Bringing our brand to life online.

As an interior design firm, my team and I have very high expectations for both the aesthetics and functionality of our website. The 9 Designs team came alongside us and supported us throughout the process of developing a site that truly reflects JTI's expertise, capabilities, and brand.

They are responsive and innovative, with the ability to present a variety of thoughtful solutions when challenges arise. I highly recommend 9 Designs to anyone looking for a professional, collaborative, and solutions-oriented team!

Aidan Lee

Founder · Health & Fitness

Kiki creates not only great brands, but great visions too.

He's able to execute on the theory, and the practical parts of it too, so that you are actually able to see results in your business. If you're looking for someone who can take your brand to great heights, then Kiki is your man!

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David Bowles

Founder · Home Staging & Real Estate

Loved Kiki and his team.

I worked with Kiki and his team for over a year and would highly recommend them. They changed my branding and elevated my company tremendously.

Sally Brady

Founder · Business Planning & Marketing

The most tolerant and innovative brand specialist you could ever meet!

The Elevey journey has been amazing. The workshops for the brand strategy were so on point — Kiki pulled so much information out of us in a fun but strategic way, and the results that came from Kiki and the team were so aligned to us it was magical.

The colours, the name, our identity design and web design are so “us”, all because Kiki listened, learnt about us and worked with us so well that the end result has been perfect. I cannot recommend Kiki enough!

Dr Marttand Patel

Director · Wealth Management

It will make a world of difference.

I highly recommend Kiki — he has a lot of integrity, works hard and is dedicated to achieving customers' aims and goals. He has done a lot of work for our companies, building our websites and helping us with our branding.

I would wholeheartedly suggest anyone looking at branding and developing their business to approach 9 Designs. It will make a world of difference and help accelerate the growth of your business.

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Richard Moore

Founder · Sales Training

9 Designs has been our partner for several years now.

Kiki was my website level-up. I needed to move from functional to a fully UX-led site that would be a platform for several sales channels. He took the lead where he needed to, got on with the work with minimal handholding, and it was clear he is an expert in his space.

He has also helped manage and direct my brand so it is consistent across my online presence, and when we launched our new Art of Sell offering in 2024 it was fantastic to have their energy and initiative behind the build and launch.

Mariana Lacombe

Founder · Business Advisory

BEST decision I've ever made!

I've partnered with 9 Designs in 2024 and 2025 to completely upgrade my personal brand. I received a new brand identity that was 100% aligned with my values and goals, followed by the most gorgeous website, funnels, lead magnets, social media identity, and impactful messaging.

They're so good that they're now working with two of my clients and my son. I highly recommend 9 Designs!

Georgia Brady

Marketing Specialist · Business Planning & Marketing

Blown away from start to finish.

I worked with Kiki to complete our rebranding to the now “Elevey”. From start to finish I have been blown away by Kiki's attention to detail and methods to create a brand that is so aligned to who we are. Every session felt relaxed, comfortable and fun.

If you are thinking about taking your brand to the next step or rebranding, I promise you that Kiki is the person for you.

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Stuart Turner

Founder · Business Coaching & Change

Working with Kiki and his team will get people excited about your brand.

They really know their stuff. In a short assignment they helped me to make sense of my brand and its representation to my customer. I'm able to align my decisions to a clear direction, and they designed and delivered collateral and branding that really encapsulates the essence of this.

My advice: if you're looking to get people excited about your brand, use Kiki and the team. They're quality.

Nish Patel

Founder · Health & Supplements

Outstanding.

Kiki has taken Direct Vitality to the next level we needed of becoming one of the UK's leading vegan supplement providers. We required a full brand design initially but now we continue to work with him for all our website design, development and ongoing company design and marketing.

He's extremely professional, attentive, has outstanding design capabilities and manages projects competently and in a timely manner.

Emilio Paiva de Brito

Founder · Property & Hospitality

Can't recommend Kiki highly enough. Superb service.

Kiki has been fantastic at helping me brand a number of my businesses in the property and hospitality sectors — everything from bespoke logo design and menu design to websites and e-commerce. Always happy to help, advise and go the extra mile to make sure I was happy with the finished product.

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What an immodest future looks like

Elite Home Staging vehicle livery

Elite Home Staging

When we met Elite Home Staging, it was already one of South Florida's most capable staging companies. Its brand revealed only part of the business.

We clarified its positioning and organised the offer around its different customers, carrying the direction through identity, website, sales materials and marketing. Quote requests were connected to the CRM, giving the team a clearer view of where enquiries came from and what happened next.

“Leads have at least doubled since the rebrand.”

David Bowles, CEO, Elite Home Staging
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Jewel Toned Interiors website

Jewel Toned Interiors

Jewel Toned Interiors creates spaces of unusual depth and discipline. Its website needed to reveal more of the thinking behind them.

We created distinct journeys for commercial and private clients, making the firm's expertise easier to explore and giving prospective customers clearer routes to the right conversation.

“A site that truly reflects JTI's expertise, capabilities, and brand.”

Joy Lynskey, Founder, Jewel Toned Interiors
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the objectives we set out to achieve

The business you’ve built deserves to be understood at its true value, with a brand capable of carrying its next ambition. These four objectives give our work a clear purpose, from the decisions made inside your business to the reasons customers choose it and the revenue that follows.

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Clarify what the business stands for and where it is going.

Every important decision needs something firm to lean against. We draw that direction out of the leadership, the people and the market, giving the business a clear understanding of what it stands for and where it intends to go. The decisions that follow have a foundation beneath them.

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Make the business distinctive, relevant and desirable.

A business should give people something to recognise and a reason to remember it. We shape a presence of its own, drawing from the character and value already there, then expressing it with enough originality to make an impression on the people who matter.

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Make the brand work consistently across the business.

The brand comes to life when it leaves the guidelines document. Its character should be felt in a proposal on someone's desk, in the website they explore and in the experience your team delivers. We give those encounters a shared direction, with room for each to do its particular job.

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Turn the brand into commercial progress.

A stronger brand should make a difference on the books. It gives customers a clearer reason to choose you and your team a stronger case for the price you ask. We put that advantage to work, helping you attract opportunities worth pursuing and convert more of them into business won. Progress means more valuable projects, less pressure to discount and stronger customer relationships, measured against your priorities for revenue and profitability.

Loved Kiki and his teamBest decision I've ever madeExtremely professional with outstanding design capabilitiesBlown away from start to finishIt will make a world of differenceCan't recommend Kiki highly enoughBringing our brand to life onlineThey really know their stuffResponsive and innovativeSo aligned to us it was magicalThe end result has been perfectOur partner for several years nowClearly an expert in his spaceTook our brand to the next levelAlways happy to go the extra mileAble to take your brand to great heightsLoved Kiki and his teamBest decision I've ever madeExtremely professional with outstanding design capabilitiesBlown away from start to finishIt will make a world of differenceCan't recommend Kiki highly enoughBringing our brand to life onlineThey really know their stuffResponsive and innovativeSo aligned to us it was magicalThe end result has been perfectOur partner for several years nowClearly an expert in his spaceTook our brand to the next levelAlways happy to go the extra mileAble to take your brand to great heights
Can't recommend Kiki highly enoughBringing our brand to life onlineThey really know their stuffResponsive and innovativeSo aligned to us it was magicalThe end result has been perfectOur partner for several years nowClearly an expert in his spaceTook our brand to the next levelAlways happy to go the extra mileAble to take your brand to great heightsLoved Kiki and his teamBest decision I've ever madeExtremely professional with outstanding design capabilitiesBlown away from start to finishIt will make a world of differenceCan't recommend Kiki highly enoughBringing our brand to life onlineThey really know their stuffResponsive and innovativeSo aligned to us it was magicalThe end result has been perfectOur partner for several years nowClearly an expert in his spaceTook our brand to the next levelAlways happy to go the extra mileAble to take your brand to great heightsLoved Kiki and his teamBest decision I've ever madeExtremely professional with outstanding design capabilitiesBlown away from start to finishIt will make a world of difference
Our partner for several years nowClearly an expert in his spaceTook our brand to the next levelAlways happy to go the extra mileAble to take your brand to great heightsLoved Kiki and his teamBest decision I've ever madeExtremely professional with outstanding design capabilitiesBlown away from start to finishIt will make a world of differenceCan't recommend Kiki highly enoughBringing our brand to life onlineThey really know their stuffResponsive and innovativeSo aligned to us it was magicalThe end result has been perfectOur partner for several years nowClearly an expert in his spaceTook our brand to the next levelAlways happy to go the extra mileAble to take your brand to great heightsLoved Kiki and his teamBest decision I've ever madeExtremely professional with outstanding design capabilitiesBlown away from start to finishIt will make a world of differenceCan't recommend Kiki highly enoughBringing our brand to life onlineThey really know their stuffResponsive and innovativeSo aligned to us it was magicalThe end result has been perfect

the work we deliver

The thinking needs to survive the journey into the work. We establish the direction and carry it through the brand, website, systems and marketing, keeping the strategy close to the people bringing it to life. Through our ongoing partnerships, we stay involved as the business grows, strengthening what happens next.

The scope follows the challenge. A focused strategic engagement can stand on its own, with wider execution or ongoing support brought in where the business needs it.

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Strategy

Brand and Growth Strategy

Defining the foundations of the business, who it should serve, how it should be positioned and what it must communicate. The result is one shared direction for the brand, website and growth decisions that follow.

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Execution

Brand and Digital Transformation

Carrying the strategy through positioning, identity, messaging, website experience, Webflow development, digital systems, search foundations and launch. One connected transformation, without the thinking being lost between separate suppliers.

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Support

Growth Partnership

Operating and improving the platform after launch through conversion optimisation, SEO and AEO, Google Ads, landing pages, analytics and ongoing brand direction. Each cycle identifies the next constraint, improves it and measures what changed.

our story

Built to connect the thinking with the doing. The aim is not to add more activity.
It is to make the right activity work together.

The 9 Designs team in a strategy session

9 Designs was founded by Kiki Bhaur around a recurring problem. Businesses were either being handed strategies no one carried through, or creative work with no clear thinking underneath it.

We built a different kind of practice. One that connects leadership ambition and commercial priorities with positioning, identity, websites, marketing and the systems operating behind them.

Since then, 9 Designs has delivered brand, strategy and web work for established businesses across many sectors. Every project is shaped around the challenge, bringing together the right expertise while maintaining one joined direction from strategy through execution.

Turn brand investment into revenue growth.

Win more of the business you deserve.

Open the business to its next growth opportunity.

a complete brand
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ecosystem

At 9 Designs®, we believe real brands aren’t built in pieces. They’re built through full ecosystems — where strategy, identity, content, platforms, marketing and infrastructure all work together to support performance and scale. We don’t do surface-level branding or disjointed deliverables. We build brand systems that are intentional, connected, and built to last. It’s why we say 9 is not 10®, not because we settle, but because we believe in constant evolution. it's about striving for the best, while always looking for what's next. We help brands grow with clarity, structure, and momentum, always improving, always ready for what’s next.

EVERY PART has ONE AMBITION.

Strategy, identity, websites and marketing should not lead separate lives. We connect them through a shared direction, coherent messaging and practical brand systems, helping your team deliver a compelling experience wherever people encounter your business.

STRATEGY WITH CONVICTION

We ask the questions that polite agreement tends to avoid. Through research, interviews and workshops, we clarify purpose, audiences, value and positioning, aligning your team around a direction it believes in and knows how to act on.

DESIGN THAT REFUSES ORDINARY

Respectable is a peculiar ambition for a business determined to stand apart. We combine original thinking with exceptional design to make your brand distinctive, relevant and desirable, with the confidence to go where competitors would not dare.

BRILLIANCE BEHIND THE SCENES

What customers see is only part of what we build. We design and develop websites and connect the platforms and systems behind them, making the customer experience work in practice and giving your team the tools to support it.

UNFINISHED MEANS ONGOING

Launch is not our cue to take a bow and disappear. Our ongoing partnerships bring strategic guidance, creative direction and continual improvement, keeping your brand distinctive and connected as the business grows and its ambitions become greater.

AMBITION INTO COMMERCIAL PROGRESS

We connect marketing, search visibility, advertising and conversion improvement to your wider ambitions. Whether progress means stronger demand, more valuable opportunities or entering new markets, we agree what success looks like and keep the work accountable to it.

“Working with Kiki and his team will get people excited about your brand”
Stuart Turner, Founder · Trustpilot
“The most tolerant and innovative brand specialist you could ever meet”
Sally Brady, Founder · Trustpilot
“They changed my branding and elevated my company tremendously”
David Bowles, CEO · Trustpilot
“A site that truly reflects our expertise, capabilities, and brand”
Joy Lynskey, Founder · Trustpilot
“I received a new brand identity that was 100% aligned with my values and goals”
Mariana Lacombe, Founder · Trustpilot

our team

THE EXPERT TEAM THAT MAKES THE IMPACT GO FROM IDEATION TO EXECUTION. A COLLECTIVE OF EXPERIENCED pros WITHIN their FIELDS and expert contractors who are hired for specific expertise.

kiki

BRAND strategy, Positioning, value proposition, messaging, DIFFERENTIATION, MARKETING, web, digital & design

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vijay

BRAND STRATEGY, CLARITY, DIRECTION, positioning & ALIGNMENT

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DAN

web, digital, ai & SEO

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JENNIFER

DESIGN & UX/UI

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+ experts

in strategy, identity, copy, uX/ui, development, ads, ai, automation & marketing

what's your unfinished business?

You've put years into building this business. Its next ambition deserves the same conviction.

Tell us where you want to take it. We'll look closely at what you've built and what the next move demands, then bring the thinking and craft to turn that ambition into something your customers can recognise and your business can grow from.

Let's talk about what comes next →

9
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is not
ten

9 is not 10 is our belief that even exceptional work has further to go.
We take pride in what we create, then look closely at what could make it better.
Your business keeps evolving, so Our ambition for it keeps moving too.

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