Creative partner to founders and marketing leaders · Since 2010
Great brands aren’t built by doing more. They’re built by refusing to settle for less. Brand Havan is a creative partner for ambitious companies who believe every detail matters. From strategy and identity to cinematic storytelling and campaigns, we make the quality of what you’ve built impossible to overlook.
30 minutes with the person who leads the work. Not a sales team.
Selected work
Softeq × TechCrunch Disrupt · Technology services
Softeq needed to pull attention on one of tech’s busiest floors and make complex services legible at a glance. We led creative direction and built custom motion graphics for large screens and a 7-foot by 20-foot LED wall.
Why it matters for CES → We’ve designed for the exact format your booth will run on, at the pace a trade-show crowd moves.
VentureBuilder.vc × NOV · Venture studio
Eleven startups, Seed through Series A, pitching to a data-driven industry audience. The intro film had to frame the venture model fast, using kinetic typography, drone footage of industrial sites and a score built to hand the stage to the first founder.
Why it matters for you → Translating new technology for a skeptical, senior audience is the job. Your buyers are that audience.
My Eyeris · Consumer tech
Instead of one ad for everyone, we built “These Are For…”. A top-of-funnel brand film fed the retargeting pools, then separate films spoke to adventurers and gamers, each shot in its audience’s own visual language.
Why it matters for you → Creative built as a funnel instead of a single hero spot, so a paid team can actually test against it.
MONQ · Wellness device
A portable aromatherapy diffuser in a crowded wellness category. We chose stop motion, a medium as patient as the product, and built a calm visual language from linen, wood and golden-hour light, from opening the box to the first breath.
Why it matters for you → When the spec sheet can’t set you apart, craft and feeling can.
Have a launch, a show or a brand that’s outgrown its creative?
Book a creative direction call →The Brand Havan Standard
Excellence reveals itself in the smallest decisions. The frame that took another hour. The story refined one more time. The typography, pacing, color and emotion that finally feel exactly right.
Not because someone asked for it. Because the work deserved it.
Your brand earns greater trust with buyers, investors and the people you want to hire.
Your company stops blending into its category and starts looking like the leader of it.
Your message gets clearer and more memorable. People can repeat what you do after one viewing.
Your marketing team gains a creative partner it can trust with the brand, not a vendor it has to manage.
Thoughtfully conceived. Meticulously crafted. Built to mean something.
How we work
Most companies don’t have a talent problem. They have a product that moved faster than its story. We close that gap as the creative department you’d build if you had the time: strategy, film, motion, design and copy, led by one creative director and produced by one studio.
We sit beside your marketing team. Your people own the plan and the numbers. We own the craft, the production and the pace.
Audience, message, and what each asset has to do in the funnel. You see the roadmap before we produce anything.
Cinematic brand films, stop motion, event-screen animation, paid social variations and the words that go with them, all shot and directed in-house.
One production day planned to feed months of cutdowns. Assets tagged for testing. Each month’s work informed by what last month’s did.
CES 2027 · Las Vegas · January 6 to 9
You’ve invested in the space, the travel and the product. We bring the creative up to that level with hero films, motion explainers, exhibition visuals, campaign content and sales assets, planned as one arc so the show opens your Q1 instead of closing your Q4.
Positioning, hero launch film, motion explainer, LinkedIn announcement campaign.
Exhibition visuals, LED-wall and screen motion, product demo loops, executive announcement video.
Show recap film, paid social cutdowns, and sales assets for every conversation the booth started.
The same team rolls into a monthly partnership. No re-briefing, no new vendor.
Film and motion for early January has to be in production by mid-November. If CES is on your calendar, this is the month to talk.
The engagement
Ongoing · most clients
$5K to $12K / month
An embedded senior creative function for the year, for teams with a media budget and a roadmap who need the creative to keep up.
Fixed scope · start here
Priced per launch
One launch, done properly: CES, a product release or a funding announcement. A defined package, a fixed date, and a natural path into the partnership if it works.
Scope is shaped on the first call. You’ll know the price before any work starts.
The math
Every option below is right for someone. Here’s how they compare for a growth-stage team that needs senior work without building a department.
| Option | Build in-house | Freelance roster | Traditional agency | Brand Havan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annual cost | $400K+ for director, producer, copywriter* | Varies by project | Retainer plus production fees | $60K to $144K |
| Time to first work | 3 to 6 months to hire | Fast, per person | Weeks of onboarding | Producing within two weeks |
| Who manages it | You | You, across every vendor | An account team | The creative director, directly |
| Disciplines covered | Whoever you hired | Stitched together | Broad, across several teams | Strategy, film, motion, design, copy |
*Estimate from U.S. base salaries for senior creative director ($130K to $180K), video producer ($75K to $110K) and copywriter ($65K to $95K), before benefits, tools and recruiting. Brand Havan range reflects the $5K to $12K monthly retainer.
Who you’ll work with
“Our edge isn’t just aesthetics. It’s psychology: understanding how your customer thinks, and what they dream about.”
Jamice Ivie
Founder and Creative Director
Jamice has directed brand films, motion and campaigns since 2010 for venture studios, consumer tech, wellness and fashion. He leads every engagement himself. The person on your first call is the person in your planning meetings and on set.
Getting started
Tell us what’s coming in 2027. We’ll look at your current creative beforehand and tell you honestly where we’d start, or whether we’re the right fit at all.
A written plan: priorities, first deliverables, timeline, and how we plug into your team and tools. Fixed scope or monthly, your choice.
Monthly cycles from there, delivered campaign-ready and formatted for your platforms.
Questions
Strategy comes before production for exactly this reason. We’ve translated venture models for energy executives, enterprise services for a TechCrunch floor and optics for gamers. The first weeks are spent learning your buyer, not opening files.
Beside them. Your team keeps the plan, the channels and the numbers. We supply senior creative direction and production, working in your tools and your calendar.
If we start in time. Film and motion for early January need to be in production by mid-November. On the first call we’ll tell you plainly what’s realistic for your date.
Paid creative is delivered in variations, tagged so your team can test hooks, formats and messages. Each month’s work is shaped by what last month’s results showed.
A kickoff, a monthly planning session and review rounds on the work. One point of contact on your side is enough.
No. The Launch Sprint is a fixed-scope project. Many teams start there and move to a partnership once they’ve seen how we work.
Start the conversation
You’ve built something worth believing in. Spend thirty minutes with the person who leads the work. Bring what’s coming in 2027: a launch, a show, a raise, or a brand that’s fallen behind. You’ll leave with an honest read on where to start, whether or not we work together.
30-minute creative direction call · Google Meet
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