I was a financial advisor before I was a designer. This is the fastest way I’ve found to get a brand out of your head and onto paper.
Get referred to the clients you actually want
Stop sounding like every other advisor’s website
Look like the firm your clients describe to their friends
The Identity Sprint

Day 0 · SwipeDay 14 · Files
What You Get

Here’s what you walk away with.

Identity FileFallbrook Fi
Who we serve

Families who feel like they should be doing more with their money, and aren’t sure what.

What we do

We organize the picture, name the moves, and do the work.

Sounds like us

“Built by a planner, not a salesperson.”

Never say

A 60-page pdf

Products to sell you

01

Your brand, written down

I call this your Identity File. It’s a Markdown file, a plain text file that ends in .md, that describes your firm in words. You upload it to ChatGPT or Claude before you ask them to write anything, and what comes back sounds like you instead of a brochure.

  1. 01One sentence on who you serve
  2. 02A line on what makes you different, pulled from your own picks
  3. 03How you talk, with a few rules I’ll write for you
  4. 04The phrases you’d never use, so nobody uses them for you
  5. 05All of it in one Identity File you can paste into ChatGPT or Claude
02

Your logo and look

It all comes in your brand guidelines: a short PDF with your logo, your colors and your fonts, and the simple rules for using them. You send it to your web person, your printer, or whoever makes your slides, so everything looks like the same firm.

  1. 01A main logo, a second version, and a small mark for tight spaces
  2. 02Your colors, with the codes your web person will ask for
  3. 03Two fonts, and which one goes where
  4. 04A pattern you can use on slides and backgrounds
  5. 05Mockups, a favicon, and profile pictures
LinkedIn headline

Fee-only planning for families who are doing well and wondering if they’re doing it right.

Directory listing

Fallbrook Fi

Fee-only · Flat fees · Clovis, California

Email signature

Devin Watts, CFP®
Fallbrook Fi
Book a 45-minute intro call

03

Your profiles, already written

These are the places people check before they call you. I write each one in your voice, and you copy it and paste it in.

  1. 01Your directory listing
  2. 02Your Google Business Profile description
  3. 03Your LinkedIn headline and about section
  4. 04Your email signature
  5. 05A one-page cheat sheet you can hand to anyone who writes for you
Why It Matters

Referrals carry most firms. They also slow down.

62%

of an advisor’s new clients come from referrals. By year ten, growth from referrals drops to 4%. Kitces calls it the coasting zone.

82%

of advisors got zero clients from social media last year. Kitces puts it down to not having a clear niche.

$0.06

is what a firm with a clear niche spends to win a dollar from referrals. Without one, it’s $0.23. Same referrals, almost four times the cost.

Kitces Research, How Financial Planners Actually Market Their Services, 2026

How It Works

Here’s how the two weeks go.

Day 0
You swipe
Day 1
We talk
Days 2 to 10
I design
Day 14
You get your files
The Price
$4,500

That’s the whole price. You pay once, and it holds one of four spots in the next group.

Price
$4,500
Time
Two weeks
Who does the work
Me, a former advisor, with a design contractor
What you leave with
Your logo and look, your brand written down, and your profiles written

If you want a website later, book the Breakaway within 90 days and I’ll take the $4,500 off.

Eric Scruggs · Hark Financial Planning · Founder
“Partnering with Josh to develop my brand exceeded every expectation. He helped me turn my words about what Hark stands for into a visual identity. The feedback from clients has been overwhelmingly positive.”
Who Does It

I was an advisor first.

This started in a conversation with Justin Castelli, RLP®, CFP®. We were talking about how to make my process easier for advisors who aren’t ready for a full rebrand. Every app that ever made something easier boiled it down to one move, so I said it out loud: what if you just swiped through what you like? Tinder for branding. I picked every card in the deck myself, and the logos below are firms I’ve designed for.

AdvisorDesigner
Questions
Start

Give it ten minutes.

Swipe through the deck on your phone. If you like what you see at the end, book a call and we’ll talk.

Need a website, a new name, or a few designs to choose from? That’s the Breakaway, and what you pay for the Sprint counts toward it.

FinArt Studio. Everything’s drawn by hand.