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STRATEGY & PROPOSITION

Design-led strategy, brand, product, and growth.

We help ambitious businesses clarify their proposition, design distinctive customer experiences, and build systems that support trust, conversion, and measurable growth.

Selected experience across brand, digital experience, product, and growth.

Work that builds momentum.

Selected work and studio outputs across brand identity, websites, product, campaigns, and growth.

Qelviore

Qelviore

Luxury fragrance identity for refined digital discovery.

Everwld

Everwld

Immersive destination brand for memorable discovery.

Wiloew

Wiloew

Electric mobility brand designed for confident movement.

Monarve

Monarve

A Digital-first bank for modern customers.

Fleetyup

Fleetyup

Smart mobility redefined through precision design.

Aetxo

Aetxo

Electric mobility brand designed for confident movement.

Froseliei

Froseliei

Premium frozen dessert brand for refined indulgence.

Zelquore

Zelquore

Premium beauty ecosystem for seamless mobile commerce.

Sprova

Sprova

Premium refresher brand for bright social moments.

Zurele

Zurele

Fruit-led juice brand for everyday refreshment.

Slarae

Slarae

Luxury resort identity for restorative destination escapes.

Brunobr

Brunobr

A modern quick-service identity built around simple packaging and menu clarity.

Wiloew

Wiloew

Botanical sparkling water with calm shelf presence.

Monarve

Monarve

A Digital-first bank for modern customers.

Everwld

Everwld

Immersive destination brand for memorable discovery.

Fleetyup

Fleetyup

Smart mobility redefined through precision design.

Zurele

Zurele

Fruit-led juice brand for everyday refreshment.

Aetxo

Aetxo

Electric mobility brand designed for confident movement.

Cremelle

Cremelle

Premium cosmetics identity for confident shelf presence.

Sprova

Sprova

Premium refresher brand for bright social moments.

ClearerSkie

ClearerSkie

Turning environmental data into healthier futures.

Terales

Terales

Smart home interface for connected daily living.

LumenAI

LumenAI

Enterprise intelligence built for clarity and confidence.

Dorvae

Dorvae

Built around progress, endurance, and everyday excellence.

Monarve

Monarve

A Digital-first bank for modern customers.

Ranviq

Ranviq

A digital-first banking brand built around clarity.

Phylore

Phylore

Designing the next generation of regenerative materials.

Qelviore

Qelviore

Luxury fragrance identity for refined digital discovery.

Roomiou

Roomiou

Smart home experience designed for clearer energy, comfort and everyday control.

Orneki

Orneki

Adventure gear brand built around practical choice and guided discovery.

Monarve

Monarve

A Digital-first bank for modern customers.

Elnde

Elnde

The Rhythm of Wellbeing.

Zelquore

Zelquore

Premium beauty ecosystem for seamless mobile commerce.

Plenvi

Plenvi

Wellness brand for calmer everyday routines.

Koraum

Koraum

Digital wellness brand built around mind, body and rest.

Everwld

Everwld

Immersive destination brand for memorable discovery.

Dovalei

Dovalei

Premium cosmetics identity for confident shelf presence.

Fleetyup

Fleetyup

Smart mobility redefined through precision design.

Wiloew

Wiloew

Botanical sparkling water with calm shelf presence.

Ranviq

Ranviq

A digital-first banking brand built around clarity.

Froseliei

Froseliei

Premium frozen dessert brand for refined indulgence.

Aetxo

Aetxo

Electric mobility brand designed for confident movement.

Trvyn

Trvyn

A bold performance brand inspired 
by the journey forward.

Zurele

Zurele

Fruit-led juice brand for everyday refreshment.

Slarae

Slarae

Luxury resort identity for restorative destination escapes.

Pacaen

Pacaen

Performance running brand built 
around personal rhythm and progress

Dovalei

Dovalei

Premium cosmetics identity for confident shelf presence.

Dorvae

Dorvae

Built around progress, endurance, and everyday excellence.

Wiloew

Wiloew

Botanical sparkling water with calm shelf presence.

Ranviq

Ranviq

A digital-first banking brand built around clarity.

Pacaen

Pacaen

Performance running brand built 
around personal rhythm and progress

Trvyn

Trvyn

A bold performance brand inspired 
by the journey forward.

Froseliei

Froseliei

Premium frozen dessert brand for refined indulgence.

Slyvain

Slyvain

Where vision becomes momentum.

Slarae

Slarae

Luxury resort identity for restorative destination escapes.

Growth slows when the work is disconnected.

Brand, website, product, campaigns, and reporting often move through different teams, tools, and priorities. That can make decisions slower, customer journeys less consistent, and performance harder to improve.

5sum connects strategy, design, digital experience, campaigns, and growth intelligence into one clearer way of working, so teams can make better decisions and keep improving what they ship.

Unclear priorities

Teams know work needs to improve, but not always what should come first, what should change, or how success should be judged.

Inconsistent journeys

Brand, website, product, content, and campaign touchpoints can say different things, creating friction for customers.

Slow learning

Work gets shipped, but insight does not always feed back into the next decision quickly enough.

What we help you build

Five connected capabilities, shaped around the work your business needs next.

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Strategy

Strategy & Proposition

Positioning, market direction, customer journeys, offer logic, messaging, and growth roadmaps.

Explore strategy
02
Growth

Growth Intelligence & Optimisation

Audits, analytics, CRO, KPI trees, reporting, experiment backlogs, and optimisation roadmaps.

Explore growth
03
Campaigns

Campaigns, Content & Demand

Launch campaigns, content systems, social assets, paid creative, editorial, and sales or marketing collateral.

Explore campaigns
04
Digital Experience

Digital Experience & Product

Websites, UX/UI, product interfaces, onboarding flows, MVP prototypes, and scoped implementation.

Explore digital product
05
Brand

Brand & Creative Systems

Identity systems, creative direction, visual language, design systems, campaign worlds, and brand guidelines.

Explore brand

Work stories

Short perspectives from teams we've supported across strategy, brand, website & UX, and performance.

A UK makeup brand reimagined with bold simplicity.

We gave Crèmelle a clearer voice in beauty, simple, bold, and confident, helping transform an overlooked name into a modern, aspirational brand.

Brand & Creative Systems

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Crèmelle project

A digital-first bank for modern customers

We shaped a clearer digital brand and customer experience direction for a financial services team preparing to modernise how it shows up across digital touchpoints.

Brand & Digital Experience

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Altuvo project

Restaurant identity blending modern and timeless

A distinctive hospitality identity system shaped to help the brand feel recognisable, confident, and consistent across its customer touchpoints.

Brand Identity

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Halston project

Perfume identity crafted with elegance and allure

A refined identity direction for a fragrance brand, designed to create a more distinctive visual world and a clearer sense of luxury across brand and campaign touchpoints.

Brand & Creative Systems

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Posy project

How projects start

Every project starts with context. Tell us what you are building, changing, or improving. We review the details and recommend the right route.

Step 1

Project enquiry

Share the context, objective, timing, budget range, and any useful links or documents.

Step 2

Internal review

We assess fit, scope, risk, capability needs, and the likely delivery route.

Step 3

Recommended route

We respond with the most suitable next step. This may be a diagnostic, a scoped project, a staged programme, a short qualification discovery, or a referral.

Step 4

Scoped proposal

If there is a fit, we define the deliverables, assumptions, milestones, budget, responsibilities, and acceptance criteria.

A system, not a service menu.

5sum does not treat strategy, brand, digital experience, campaigns, and growth as separate workstreams. We shape each project around the client’s objective, then connect the right direction, specialists, delivery rhythm, and measurement into one operating plan.

The result is clearer ownership, stronger consistency across touchpoints, and a better foundation for improvement over time.

Strategy, quality, client leadership, and key decisions stay close to the core team.

Brand, web, product, campaigns, content, and growth work are shaped as part of one customer experience, not separate tasks.

Designers, developers, writers, marketers, analysts, production specialists, and technical partners support where the work requires deeper expertise.

Scope, milestones, responsibilities, acceptance criteria, QA, and reporting are agreed before work scales.

Projects are structured to capture what changed, what worked, and what should improve next.

Proof that builds momentum.

Selected signals, systems, and outcomes from work across strategy, brand, websites, product, campaigns, and growth.

Selected work and outcomes across tech, consumer, and services.

70%+

Faster customer acquisition
during launch phase.

Financial Services / FinTech

A digital-first bank for
modern customers

92%

Increase in brand engagement
within first 3 months post-launch.

Beauty & Cosmetics

UK makeup brand reimagined
with bold simplicity

150%

Increase in platform sign-ups
within 6 months.

Technology / SaaS

SaaS platform positioned
with a fluid digital identity

+29%

Increase in reservations
during first 3 months.

Hospitality / Restaurants

Restaurant identity blending
modern and timeless

+44%

Growth in pre-orders
compared to forecast.

Luxury / Fragrance

Perfume identity crafted
with elegance and allure

12K

Engagements on launch campaign
within first 30 days.

Consumer Goods / Lifestyle

Playful branding rooted
in nature & simplicity

BITES logo

+52%

Sell-through rate in launch month
compared to forecast.

Beverages / Energy Drinks

Energy drink brand brought
to life with bold flavour

CODICE logo

2,500+

Units sold in first two weeks of
launch campaign.

Food & Beverage / Consumer Goods

Ice cream identity balancing
indulgence and craft

Swiper Test

Related insights

Practical thinking, teardowns, reports, and field notes on brand, digital experience, product, campaigns, and growth.

Practical thinking, teardowns, reports, and field notes on brand, digital experience, product, campaigns, and growth.

Insights

14 May 2026

Insight

30 April 2026

When your proposition is clear internally but unclear to buyers

Read Insight

Teardown

16 April 2026

Why website UX audits should start with buyer confidence

Read Insight

Insights

2 April 2026

Insights

2 April 2026

Insights

2 April 2026

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FAQs

Useful answers before you start a project enquiry.

We review the context, objective, timing, budget range, and any useful links or documents. If there is a fit, we respond with the recommended route. 
That may be a diagnostic, a scoped project, a staged programme, a short qualification discovery, or a referral.

No, Share what you are trying to build, change, or improve. We can help shape the route, but we need enough context to assess fit, likely scope, timing, and delivery needs.

We use clear scopes, deliverables, milestones, and acceptance criteria, but we do not force every client into the same package. 
Projects are shaped around the objective, budget, timing, and capability needs.

We work across strategy, brand, digital experience, product, campaigns, content, and growth intelligence. That can include positioning, identity systems, websites, 
UX/UI, product interfaces, launch campaigns, audits, reporting, and optimisation.

Yes, We support websites, UX/UI, product interfaces, onboarding flows, MVP prototypes, and scoped implementation where the requirements are clear. 
Larger or more complex builds are scoped carefully before delivery starts.

Yes, We support campaign systems, content, paid creative, launch assets, and demand activity where it connects to the wider strategy, 
customer experience, and commercial objective.

Project scope varies. The enquiry form includes budget ranges so we can recommend the right route and avoid wasting time. Smaller budgets may be better suited to a diagnostic, audit, or focused piece of work; larger projects may require staged scoping.

Calls are used after we have reviewed the project context and confirmed there is a useful reason to speak. This helps us keep the process 
focused and make better use of everyone’s time.

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SaaS / product business
Startup / scaleup
Professional services / B2B expert firm
Consumer / DTC brand
Education / EdTech
Health / wellness
Financial services / fintech
Non-profit / public sector / impact
Other / not sure
Budget band
Estimated timeline
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1–3 months
3–6 months
6+ months
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