Build your brand

The Visual Brand Audit: Does your look match the quality of your work?

You already know it’s time to level up. The Visual Brand Audit helps you pause, see clearly, and figure out where to start.

You already feel it. Now what?

Maybe it came up in a board meeting. Maybe a donor mentioned your website. Somewhere along the way, you recognized that your materials don’t quite match the work you do.

That feeling is the easy part. The harder part is knowing where to focus first.

The Visual Brand Audit is a free self-assessment built for that next step. It walks you through three checks, confidence, consistency, and clarity, so you can see what’s working and what needs attention. You’ll walk away with a short list of where to start.

You don’t need to be a designer to use it. You just need to be honest about what you see.

If you’d rather talk it through with someone first, we’re happy to help. But if you want to think it through on your own before that conversation, this guide is built for exactly that.

What’s inside:

A quick exercise to gather your materials side by side
Three checklists to review your materials covering confidence, consistency, and clarity
Action steps for each area
A scoring guide to help you prioritize next steps

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