Command A Brand
You Can't Copy
and can't ignore.

Launch a defensible brand position, storytelling system, & go-to-market campaign in 8–12 weeks.
Most companies spend years polishing a message that was wrong to begin with.
Rally Cry finds the one difference worth betting the company on — then lines up culture, communications, and marketing so everything moves in the same direction.
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Our Positioning Work gets you scaling faster, winning better business, entering new markets, attracting top talent, aligning culture, and increasing profitability.
PROBLEM
Buyers have plenty of reasons to distrust brands.
One reason?

They all sound the same. They make the same promises. When your difference isn’t obvious, the market defaults to the biggest, the loudest, or the cheapest.

What you can’t name, you can’t sell. What you can’t explain, the market won’t buy.
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Differentiation problems are trust problems.
Trust problems are sales problems.
You Feel It
You know this shouldn’t be this hard.

Sales and Marketing are churning, but nothing is working. Prospects nod along for 30 minutes and still don’t get it. Ask three people what the company does. Get three different answers.

You are carrying the weight of a brand you haven't met yet.
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Your brand is close enough to sense
but not clear enough to name.
If you could just put your finger on it, everything would get easier.
YOU KNOW TOO MUCH TO SEE IT.
You see it as a thousand moving parts: the product iterations, the staffing gaps, the pivots, the workarounds, the “good enough for now” decisions.

You see history. You see effort. You keep circling the same stories you’ve been telling for years.

All of which makes it impossible to see the brand that’s right in front of you.
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You didn’t mean to end up here.
It didn’t happen all at once.
You thought you asked the right questions and leaned into the right needs.
You led with what you offer because it’s concrete and true.

You leaned into features, hoping the value would be obvious. You aimed for the biggest market because the odds felt better. You relied on language that sounded right because it was smart.

And before you knew it you were competing on price.
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So here you are. After every swing,
every guess, every compromise.
Wondering if there’s even a brand to uncover.
There is.
We’ll find it.
Right now, your brand is buried.
Buried under years of explanations. Buried under jargon, ideas, and too many messages. We don’t add to the pile; we dig out the one thing worth betting the brand on.

The result? A difference your market finally recognizes, a story your team actually believes, and a brand your competitors can’t steal or stack up against.
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SOLUTION
You need a position so grounded in reality it lands like fact.
— a real “aha.”
We take brands from hard to explain
to hard to compete with.
SERVICES
BRAND STRATEGY
(Positioned to Win)
• Differentiated Brand Positioning • Brand Culture • Naming • Residential & Home • Community Brands • Brand Repositioning & Evolution • Research & Diagnostics

MARKETING &
COMMUNICATIONS
(Momentum Builders)
• Integrated Campaign Strategy & Development • Brand Activation • Messaging & Copywriting • Digital & Social Content • Conference & Event Narratives
BRAND ASSETS
(Show up, stand out)
• Logo & Identity Systems • Brand Guidelines & Governance Systems • Packaging Systems • Print & Collateral • Websites & Digital Experience • Annual Reports • Photography & Visual Asset Development
FRACTIONAL LEADERSHIP
(Embedded executive brand leadership)
• Fractional CMO • Brand Leadership • Brand Launch Leadership • Growth Strategy • Performance & Accountability Frameworks

A clearer brand story starts with one simple conversation.
It’s a strategic conversation, not a pitch.
In 60 minutes, we’ll get clear on what’s working, what isn’t, and what you’re worried about, with space for the questions that are actually on your mind.

We’ll dig into what you want next—faster sales, better talent, new markets—and what “success” really looks like over the next 12–24 months. One hour with a thinking partner to get the truth on the table.

You carry the weight of the brand into that call. You don’t carry it out alone.
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Sixty minutes of your time.
Eight to twelve weeks of ours...
Years of guesswork off your plate.
We sell differentiation.

We build the brands buyers trust.

Differentiation is alignment. Alignment between what a company can actually deliver and what buyers actually want.

That match is rare.

When its right, demand shows up. The numbers move. Fast.
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MOST AGENCIES PROMISE CREATIVITY.
SOME PROMISE GROWTH.
VERY FEW PROMISE TO GET THE BRAND RIGHT.
WE DO.
WE DON’T CREATE, INVENT, NOODLE, OR SPIN.

We uncover the differentiator that makes all the difference.

The one that acts as the strategic matchmaker between your internal competency and
buyer demand.

We hone in on the sweet spot between what your brand does exceptionally well and what the market is actively willing to reward.

When that connection is clear, trust follows. When trust is proven, everything accelerates.
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A Rally Cry is a cause and an effect. say the right thing, in the right way, and the right people recognize it.
Rally Cry exists for leaders who can’t afford to get it wrong.
Leaders who recognize brand as an alignment strategy too big to live inside a single
department.
It is the operating position of the company.

It must change the math on:
• Sales velocity
• Pricing power
• Talent attraction
• Strategic clarity
• Long-term defensibility
If your brand isn’t doing all that, you don’t own a
differentiated position — you’re slinging a tagline.
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Rally Cry is Different.
We think you should be too.
Four differentiators ensure we never get your brand wrong. They shape how we uncover, test, and prove a position leaders and buyers can trust.

We Test Before You Invest
Strong brands are uncovered, not invented, and never accepted at first draft. We listen to learn, examining behavior, incentives, competitors, economics, cultural climate, disruptors, and the politics shaping the market. Then we challenge it from every angle. We assign the skeptic. We pressure assumptions. We test language against buyer psychology and strategy against competitive reality. We de-risk your brand across every phase of development.
#1
Buyer Psychology Drives
Market Connection
You cannot own a market you do not understand. When we are done, you will know how your buyers think, evaluate risk, justify decisions, and talk about value. We connect your true strategic advantage to the motivations already shaping purchase decisions, using language your market already trusts. When it resonates at the decision level, momentum follows.
#2
Defensible Contrast Creates Competitive Edge
We build brands in clear contrast to your competitive market. Your position must be defensible, persuasive, and easy to choose. When differentiation is sharp and tied to what buyers want, decisions accelerate. Confusion disappears. Sales cycles shorten. If the choice isn’t obvious, it’s just another missed opportunity.

#3
Brand Is Financial Strategy
When your brand is built on real differentiators and aimed at the market you were born to win, it becomes a financial decision, not a marketing one. It clarifies what you own, where to bet next, and how brand drives revenue, margin, and valuation. Owning your lane is defensive strategy. It protects pricing power, sharpens capital allocation, strengthens talent attraction, and compounds enterprise value.


#4
differentiation you can defend requires three phases:

Phase One: Set the Stakes and Direction

We start with a working session to get the truth on the table: what’s working, what isn’t, where the business is headed, and what’s at risk if you get the brand wrong.

Then we turn that into a decision‑ready brief that sets financial stakes, defines the real needs, and outlines what “winning” looks like over the next 12–24 months. Within a few days, you get that brief plus an execution framework, which together become the backbone of the engagement and proposal.

Phase Two:Excavate and Prove the Position

Next, we run a disciplined discovery process across customers, prospects, employees, skeptics, competitors, and the broader market—treating discovery as due diligence, not a formality.

We look at how buyers behave, where competitors actually win, how your culture operates, and how industry shifts, disruption, and the broader landscape are reshaping your space. Then we pressure‑test potential positions against that reality until one shines and holds up from every angle.

You leave this phase with a defensible, evidence‑backed position that feels like it’s always been true—and the confidence of proof you can trust, not just a clever angle.

Phase Three: Align the System and Turn It On

Finally, we translate the position into a usable system: storytelling, messaging, and practical guardrails your leaders, sales team, and culture can actually run on.

We embed the brand into how you hire, sell, and serve, build the tools your team needs (from storylines to sales language), and define a 12‑ to 24‑month roadmap so brand guides strategy instead of sitting in a deck.

You leave this phase with a brand you can run the company on—a growth lever and leadership tool strong enough to shoulder the weight of your next stage, with the support you need to launch it cleanly.

HI, we're jillian & gloria
We support sincere, no‑nonsense leaders in building brands they can actually run the company on—brands that hold up under pressure, move markets, and protect the people whose livelihoods depend on them. A position you can bet the company on.
We’ve spent our careers in high‑stakes work where the brand couldn’t afford to crack—projects tied to the Olympics, John Deere, Harley‑Davidson, the avocado industry, and plenty of smaller teams fighting for their place. We’ve seen what happens when the story is thin and the market is unforgiving. We’re the ones you want in your corner if you’re done with surface‑level story work and ready to do the hard, disciplined work of getting the brand right.
Jillian is the pattern‑finder. She pulls every piece and part onto the table—customer truths, business goals, market trends, messy internal opinions—and makes it all make sense. She turns noise into a single story that hits the nail and gives your team that “oh, that’s it” moment.

Gloria is the protector of the brand. She knows how real differentiation works in the wild and will fight for the one sharp position that earns you the right to take off—not just a clever angle, a new trajectory.
Together, we run a tight bench of contributors who are as serious about getting the brand right as we are. You will never meet anyone on your work who isn’t up to the task. The culture inside Rally Cry is the same one we build for our clients: aligned, trained, and pointed at one outcome—delivering a brand built to win on its own terms.
If you’re ready to put your brand to work,
It's safest in our hands.
You’re already all‑in on a position,
whether you like it or not.
The danger isn’t evolving your brand; it’s rolling into next year with the same bit
and even more on the line.
We find what’s right—the differentiator that makes all the difference
We’re never wrong. That’s our superpower. We build brands that change how people decide, buy, and believe. We do brand, culture, and marketing because once the position is right, everything else has to align to it.

Around here, a Rally Cry is serious business.
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Around here, brand isn’t a vibe. It’s competitive position. Otherwise, we pass.


We identify your real, defensible advantages — the ones competitors can’t replicate — and align them with what the market is already straining to hear and where the industry is actually headed.
Not trends. Direction.
We separate first wins from long shots. Core buyers from casual interest. Signal from noise.
Then we pressure-test our findings until the position is so clear, differentiated, and strategically sound that only you can own it, and you can scale it with confidence.
When we’re done, you won’t “like” the positioning. You’ll trust it.
Because it’s tested. It’s bankable. And it’s right.
“You can’t expect a brand to take root if leadership is still speaking another language. Alignment isn’t an add-on, it’s neurological. The way leaders carry the brand wires the rest of the system. If they embody it, others believe it. If they sidestep it, others will too. The brand isn’t optional. It’s a mandate. And the rewiring starts at the top.” 
—CEO, Integrative Health

No One's Right, 'Til the Brand Is

If we’ve learned anything, it’s this:
The strongest brands aren’t invented, they’re uncovered.
Usually buried under blind spots, old assumptions, and stories that were once true but no longer serve. That’s what happens when proximity blurs perspective.

You know your organization better than anyone: where you’ve been, where you are, what it took to get here. You are a critical member of the brand team.

What you need is a brand team who leans into your perspective, sees what you see, and what you can’t.
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It's About People

In the end, the decision isn't about process or price. It's about people. Who’s got skin in the game? Who’s going to dig like a dog on a bone: relentless, focused, and on schedule?

Who’s got the nerve to protect your identity and the judgment to position your critical asset?

Who can lift your team, challenge, champion, and equip them to carry the brand.

You’re choosing a partner with the spine to hold the line and the authority to say what needs saying. The one who keeps the balls in the air, the wheels on the track, and everyone moving in the right direction.

That's the choice.

Let's Level Together

You’ve got one shot to get this brand right.

You need brains, backbone, heart, and guts working on your behalf.

This is serious work; you need a serious ally.

It takes discernment, doggedness, and the kind of people who care about the same things you do.
We’re those people. You should probably give us a call.

Slow Drip, Strong Grip

As part of our process, we build adoption from the start, not as a handoff, but as a slow drip of clarity, conviction, and internal traction. We bring the right people in early, equip leaders with insight in real time, and design breadcrumb rollout plans that include the working community as a strategy, not an afterthought.

Buy-in isn’t a vibe. It’s a commitment to invite working cultures into shape and own the brand. 

Our work with culture brands didn’t just teach us how adoption happens, it taught us why it usually doesn’t.

On The Job

Clients always want to know: who's actually doing the work? Fair question.

The team you meet is the team we trust to lead your brand, because they know your industry, your challenge, and your market best. We don’t bait and switch. We don’t outsource the hard parts.

We’re small. Intentionally so.

It’s how we do our best work: close, focused, and fast-moving. Just the right people, working the right process.

And speaking of the process, every team member, no matter who’s leading, works to ours. Tight, gut tested and shaped to deliver. But wait there is more. Jillian is on your team. Because Jillian is on every team. No brand gets past Jillian, our human brand bumper, who makes damn sure every brand stays in its lane and hits the right notes.

Winning Track Record

We’ve worked straight up chaos and still bagged the brand.

You don’t name a company Rally Cry unless you’ve cracked the code. Unless you know that you know that you’ve built a bullet proof process that works even in a firestorm: recovering botched rebrands, culture crashes, or investor panic.

What have a system that doesn’t miss. Because we work it until it validates a direction, one way or another.

It’s wired to catch the goods that get overlooked: the nuance, the buried truth, the stuff that’s hiding right in front of our faces. We have a mechanism that filters distractions. It’s field-tested, pattern recognition and human behavior applied to brand strategy.

We have receipts, references, and super fans.

We’re built for complexity. It’s the nature of the work.

Every brand is complex in its own way. Mergers, pivots, public crises. We know what to expect, what lurks beneath: too much turnover in the C-suite, merged cultures knitted up in a mashup, a startup that scaled too fast, a beloved institution that took a weird turn. You wouldn’t need us if it was any other way. We are here for it.

Our advantage is focus and experience. We’ve been inside the closet, and we know how to sort the laundry. We tune out distractions, challenge assumptions, and listen for the cues and signals that tell a different story. We even know what to do with *Norm and Marge.

Because defining the brand is only part of the job. The real work includes managing politics, history, decisions, and personalities that come with it. Especially Norm and Marge.

*Names have been changed to protect the innocent (and the not-so-innocent).

Truth Works Like a Charm

Discovery is the Foundation. We embrace a methodology rooted in truth finding, not creative assumption. Before we build, we dig. We approach our work like brand anthropologists and behavioral economists. We track patterns, decode reactions, and map the cultural signals that shape how people think, feel, and choose.

We keep going until we reach a validating consensus, the one that holds up across  departments, product lines, customer segments, market direction, and history. We know it when we get there.

So will you. We’ll all feel it. More importantly, so will your market.

We’re all in on differentiation. All in.

Contrast is what nudges decision making over the finish line. Our brains crave clarity. When everything looks, sounds, and sells the same, decisions stall. But when one option breaks pattern and pops out, that’s the one that did the deciding for you.

In behavioral economics, it’s called the “this vs. that” effect—when one brand clearly defines its own lane, it reframes the value of every other brand around it. That’s leverage. That’s power. That’s how you escape being one of many to the one that matters.

Built. Branded. Ready.

You better believe we build hands-on, practical brand systems that focus your teams and align your departments. From leadership buy-in to frontline rollout, from tactical tools to integration plans, an integrated brand, adopted by your culture and delivered by your people, is more than a market win; it’s a competitive advantage.

According to Forrester (2024), companies that operationalize their brand internally see 60% higher employee engagement and roll out cross-departmental initiatives three times faster.

Brand is a Financial Strategy

We build brands that earn their keep. Brands that de-risk the business, create market pull, and turn ambiguity into bankable returns. Position a brand on sharp differentiators aimed at the exact market you want to penetrate, and it becomes the cheapest investment with the fastest return.

We’ve built brands in the fire. Start-ups, M&A, turnarounds, and rapid scaling environments where the stakes were high and the runway was short. Where brand wasn’t a creative exercise, it was survival. It was strategy. It saved the day.
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