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Brand Strategy Assessment

A deeper diagnostic of your positioning, systems, and leadership alignment. Maps your brand across four pillars — so you know which layer is creating the most friction and what it would take to close the gap.

How to Score

  • Score each statement: 1 = not true at all, 3 = partially true, 5 = fully and consistently true
  • Score your firm as it actually is — not as you intend it to be
  • If possible, have a second leader score independently and compare
  • The gaps between your scores and theirs are often the most useful data
01

Positioning

How clearly your brand defines who it serves, what gap it fills, and why it wins over alternatives.

1. We can state our ideal client in one specific sentence — not "anyone who needs our services."

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2. We have a named differentiator that our nearest competitors could not credibly claim.

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3. Our positioning has been tested with real prospects and refined based on their response.

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4. We turn down work outside our positioning without hesitation.

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5. Every member of our team can describe what we do and who we serve consistently.

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Positioning Total: ___ / 25
02

Brand Architecture

How consistently your visual identity, messaging, and standards hold up across channels and team members.

1. Our visual identity — logo, color, typography — looks consistent across our website, proposals, and presentations.

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2. Our brand voice sounds like the same person wrote everything — website, emails, social posts, proposals.

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3. We have documented brand standards that our team uses for new content and designs.

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4. A new team member could produce on-brand content in their first 30 days using our existing documentation.

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5. Our brand standards are actively maintained — not just written once and forgotten.

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Brand Architecture Total: ___ / 25
03

Conversion Systems

How effectively your website and sales assets move qualified prospects to the next step.

1. A qualified prospect who visits our homepage understands who we serve and the problem we solve within 10 seconds — without guessing.

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2. Our website generates consistent inbound inquiries from qualified prospects — not just from referrals we already knew.

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3. Our proposals reinforce the same positioning as our website — they feel like they came from the same firm.

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4. Our close rate on qualified proposals is above 60%.

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5. Prospects who reach us already understand what we do — they rarely need a full orientation call.

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Conversion Systems Total: ___ / 25
04

Growth Infrastructure

How well your marketing channels, CRM, and automation support consistent pipeline generation.

1. We can predict, with reasonable accuracy, where next quarter's pipeline will come from.

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2. Our CRM captures every interested prospect — leads do not fall through the cracks.

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3. We have a content strategy tied to our positioning — not just occasional posts when someone has time.

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4. We rank on the first page of Google for at least one search term our ideal client would use to find us.

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5. Our marketing ROI is measurable and improving over time — we know what's working.

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Growth Infrastructure Total: ___ / 25

Interpreting Your Score

85–100

Strong Brand Infrastructure

Your brand is doing its job at this stage. Focus on growth channel deployment and optimization — the foundation supports it.

65–84

Solid Foundation with Gaps

The core is working but specific pillars are creating friction. Identify the lowest-scoring area and fix it before expanding marketing investment.

45–64

Significant Gaps Across Multiple Pillars

Brand inconsistency is actively costing you deals and pipeline. Start with Positioning before touching any other pillar.

Below 45

Brand Infrastructure Missing

You are relying on founder relationships and manual effort to do what a brand system should do. This constraint compounds as you grow.

Total Score: ___ / 100

Scoring Range: _______________

Scored by: _______________

Date: _______________

Pillar Comparison

Record your totals for each pillar. The gap between pillars tells you where to focus — a low score in Positioning means every other pillar is being built on an unstable foundation.

Pillar Score / 25 Priority Action
01 — Positioning
02 — Brand Architecture
03 — Conversion Systems
04 — Growth Infrastructure
Total

Top 3 Priority Actions

Based on your lowest-scoring pillar and the specific questions that pulled your score down, identify the three most urgent things to address:

Priority 1

Which pillar / which statement:

What to fix:

Why it matters right now:

Owner & target date:

Priority 2

Which pillar / which statement:

What to fix:

Why it matters right now:

Owner & target date:

Priority 3

Which pillar / which statement:

What to fix:

Why it matters right now:

Owner & target date:

Abstract Creative · Brand Transformation Studio · Houston, TX

abstract-creative.com · efren@abstract-creative.com

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