Recent Wins

What lasts
isn't the logo

It's the feeling
underneath it

412% median client value lift 6 category leaders built $7.4B raised by Overtone partners
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We build brands people feel before they understand.

Make them care,
not compare

Make them feel airborne

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Aerlift Airborne
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Portrait of a woman holding cosmetic products against a blue background — photo by Ron Lach on Pexels
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Overtone is an independent brand studio building the companies people can't stop talking about.

Our services

  1. 1Foundations
  2. 2Voice & Naming
  3. 3Identity Systems
  4. 4Digital Product
  5. 5Launch & Growth
  6. 6Brand Stewardship
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Harlow Grocers Cavallo Meridian Bellrose RE — PRISE Bastion AI
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Muslin Cultivating a couture skincare ritual
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Terrafirm Pioneering engineered intelligence
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Bastion Systems Building the future of defense
OPENPLAY
Openplay Redefining representation for a new era of athletes
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Verlaine Awakening the senses
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Independent by nature.
Backed by Longwharf.

An independent creative studio inside Longwharf, making identities, campaigns, and experiences for companies with something to prove.

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Feeling alive

Beauty. Wellness. Longevity. We turn difference into desire, and brands into the ones people name first.

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Muslin
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Verlaine
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Reprise

Feeling inevitable

Industry. Intelligence. Defense. We turn frontier technology into clarity, credibility, and narrative force.

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Bastion Systems
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Ironwright
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Groundtruth
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Corona Labs
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About us

We started as three people and a shared stubbornness. Today we're a studio of strategists, writers, designers, and engineers across four cities.

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Approach

From machines built on code to beauty built on culture, the starting point never moves: define the feeling first.

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Capital raised. Categories moved.
Minds changed.

Latest partnerships, launches, recognition, and press

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