Sophisticated marketing, without agency complexity.
Most growing companies get one of two options: a specialist who solves a slice of the problem, or a full-service agency that bills you for coordination. We built the third option — one team that covers six disciplines and starts by telling you the truth.
Four positions we actually hold.
Not values on a wall. Each one changes how we take on work — and each one costs us business sometimes.
AI does the drafting. Your team makes the calls.
Every workflow we build has a documented human review gate. We won’t ship one that doesn’t.
Start small. Earn the retainer.
Every relationship begins with one audit. If that’s all you ever buy, that’s a fine outcome.
Every deliverable ties to a number.
Agreed before the work starts, reported after — including the months it didn’t move.
One team, six disciplines.
No handoffs between agencies, no coordination tax, no re-explaining your business.
One founder. A trusted network.
No account layer, and no anonymous account team either — here’s who’s actually doing this.
Mike Theisen
Founder, Brandaify
I started Brandaify because great marketing — and the opportunities created by AI and automation — shouldn’t feel out of reach for small and midsize businesses. My goal is to make technology approachable, practical, and genuinely useful.
My career spans 18 years across operations, data, CRM, and customer relations, with the last 10 focused specifically on marketing — which gives me a different vantage point than most marketers on how a decision in one part of a business ripples through the rest of it. I hold a Master of Science in Integrated Marketing Communications from Northwestern, and I’ve been teaching marketing courses at a local university since 2022.
Through Brandaify, I pair that experience with a trusted network of talented professionals and freelancers, bringing in the right expertise to turn each client’s vision into reality. I love new challenges, learning how businesses work, and finding the right mix of strategy, creativity, technology, and people to move them forward.
Less hype. Less complexity. More marketing that means business.
Six studios that share one brief.
Most agencies bolt disciplines together and charge you for the seams. Ours run off the same diagnostic, the same baseline, and the same review call — so a question that spans three studios gets one answer.
AI
Strategy
Digital
Creative
Conversion
InsightsGrowing companies past the improvising stage.
Enough traction that marketing matters, not enough scale to run six specialties in-house.
A good fit when
Probably not when
We hire practitioners, not account managers.
If you’d rather do the work than coordinate it, and you want your name on the read-out, we’re usually looking.
Let’s Find Where You Start.
Every relationship begins with one Studio Audit — low commitment, fast turnaround, real findings either way.