A senior consulting team for strategy, brand and practical AI adoption.
Brainforest works across four practices: brand and marketing strategy, higher education marketing, AI adoption and business transformation, and AI readiness for construction and commercial trades. We are based in Tempe, Arizona, in the Phoenix metro, and engagements run remote first across North America.
Four practices that share one method.
Brand and marketing strategy
Positioning, narrative, verbal and visual identity, and the go-to-market plan that follows from them.
Read moreHigher education marketing
Institutional and program positioning, recruitment campaign strategy, and measurement tied to funnel stages you can report on.
Read moreAI adoption and business transformation
Use-case shortlists, pilot design with agreed pass and stop conditions, and the evaluation that tells you whether to continue.
Read moreCommercial trades AI readiness
A structured readiness view and roadmap for general contractors, HVAC, electrical, plumbing and field-service operators.
Read moreScope agreed first, senior people throughout, artifacts you keep.
Agree the question
We define the decision the engagement has to inform, and what is deliberately out of scope, before any work starts.
Review what exists
Current research, data you can share, prior brand work and the systems already in place. If something we need is unavailable, we say so at the outset.
Produce the artifacts
Written positioning, briefs, message hierarchies, pilot designs and measurement plans your team can apply without us in the room.
Hand over ownership
We name who approves the work afterwards, who maintains it, and when it gets revisited.
Indicative engagement shapes: a discovery project of two to four weeks, a pilot of six to ten weeks, a brand sprint of eight to sixteen weeks, or ongoing advisory. Scope and timing are agreed before work starts.
The people you meet at the start are the people doing the work. We take on a limited number of engagements each quarter, and we say so when an engagement is not ours to do.
Selected work
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Tempe, Arizona, in the Phoenix metro. Engagements run remote first.
Most clients are distributed across North America. We travel for kickoffs and key working sessions. Everything else runs on shared documents, written thinking and short working calls.