BrandStrategy
The story your company tells before anyone meets you. We get into the business, understand the positioning, and build something that holds.
Case Studies
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At Circle Square, we build the websites, brands, and digital products that most agencies can't. Because they haven't been through it. We've started, scaled, and sold. We know what a product needs to convert, what a brand needs to hold up under pressure, and what a founder needs to move fast.
We're a studio run by founders. You work directly with the person doing the work, not a junior account team. We've started, scaled, and sold companies of our own, so we know what a product needs to convert and what a brand needs to hold up under pressure. Nothing here is templated: every website, brand, and digital product is built from your brief, with the craft and detail that make it land.
Approach
{ Four disciplines that turn ambition into something people actually use }
VisualIdentity
Visual systems that scale — from pitch deck to production, from launch day to Series A.
Website
Not templates. Not page builders. Real sites, built to perform and built to last.
Product
Digital products that start from how people actually use things — not how we want them to.
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What we do
We work with early‑stage companies and founders on the things that matter most — brand, web, and product. Small team. Real work. No handoffs.
Branding
- Brand architecture
- Brand positioning
- Naming
- Brand strategy
- Brand development
- Brand identity
- Brand implementation
- Wayfinding
- Iconography
- Illustration
- 3D
- Editorial design
- Type design
Digital Branding
- User Experience
- User Interface
- Prototyping
- Web design
- App design
- E-commerce
- Front-end development
- Back-end development
- Digital Publishing
Experience
- Digital product design
- Environmental
- Retail design
- Packaging design
- Motion design
- Art direction
- Video direction
- Campaign concept
Business Design
- Concept development
- Research and strategy
- Communication strategy
- Design strategy
- Digital and experience strategy
- Business innovation and transformation
- Brand platforms and strategy
- Brand portfolio strategy
CS Journal
Revolut at $115b and not a penny of new money
A secondary sale, a lot of happy employees, and a valuation that now has to behave like a bank's
Tutor Intelligence wants you to rent its robots
a16z leads a $75m Series B for robots you hire by the hour or by the pick
Spiko wasn't even fundraising and closed $90m anyway
A non-AI fintech raising at $800m this year is worth paying attention to
Fractile raised £540m and nobody announced it
A huge UK AI chip round that showed up in filings instead of a press release
Why Non-VC Startups Are the Hidden Winners of Modern Entrepreneurship
Bootstrapped startups survive longer, reach profitability more often, and give founders far better ownership outcomes than VC-backed companies.
When AI Starts Predicting Us: The Darker Side of ChatGPT Pulse
A speculative look at how ChatGPT Pulse nudges AI toward behavioural prediction, psychological inference, and a future where assistants may understand us more deeply than we realise.
Things we're thinking about, working through, and sharing from the process of building. Updated when there's something worth saying.
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