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Identity first. Who you are matters more than a font. Never a template.
What makes my business mine?Before the logo, there’s you.
We find who you are and carry it onto every surface people see. Strangers get you before you say a word.
Steve and Nolan, a small West Michigan studio.
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Twelve questions, three things to do this week, nothing to buy.
For food trucks, coffee shops, realtors, festivals and events, creators, software, and small shops.
Who is Stolan Acres?
Before anything gets designed, we find who you are. Stolan Acres is Steve and Nolan, married co-founders of a West Michigan studio. For small businesses, and for people who are the business. We listen, write it down as your Blueprint, and carry it onto every surface people see, so the right people finally look. Never a template. It starts free.
By Steve and Nolan, co-founders of Stolan Acres.
- Identity First, Brand Second.
- Married co-founders
- West Michigan
- Since 2022
- Two books on the method
If you’ve paid for a logo or a site before and still looked like everyone else, you’re who this is for.
Who you are first. Then how you look. Then the site. A human eye on every screen. Never a template. Yours to keep.
Why not use a template or Canva?
You are not a template.
Make them obsessed with you, not your logo.
Two rebrands. A site you paid for twice. Posting every day with nothing to show.
The world runs on instant everything, the same five looks dressed up as identity. We bet the studio on the other thing.
AI is not your competition. The copy-paste economy is.
Work made to be sold, not made to fit anyone, leaves you carrying identity debt: the gap between who you are and what people see. That is not your fault. We use the best tools there are, AI included, and a person with taste decides, after we listen to you. Then what people see is you.
Where do I go from here?
Everything grows from the root.
Who you are is the root. Four branches grow from it, and each one opens onto something real.
The rootYouRings like fingerprints. No two trees the same.
Or keep going. The trunk is the path, and it starts free.
What does it cost?
It starts free and climbs.
Every rung carries your Blueprint; what changes is how far it goes.
A million ideas and no way to know what to do. Here there is one path, and it starts free.
The taller the tree, the more people see it.
- FreeThe Identity Debt Audit.Your score now. Add your email for three things to do this week.
- $497The Page.One page that says who you are before anyone reads a word.See The Page, $497
- $2,497The Site.The flagshipA full site, designed by a person, with who you are inside it. The identity call is inside it.See The Site
- $4,497The Site + Kit.The site, then who you are on every surface people see, with 30 days of us in the room.See the Kit
After launch, keep us close by the hour or monthly. Brand Stewardship, $1,500 to $3,500 a month, for clients who built their identity with us. Brand System Build, from $12k, by application. See every service
What does it become?
This is what a root becomes.
Found first, then carried onto every surface people see. Two of them, live, as they are.
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Let’s find you first.
If you’ve wanted someone to just walk you through it, that is what the identity call is, once you’re in. One of us is on every call. We mostly listen, and nobody opens a design file until we know you. Start with your score.
Not for you if you want five logos to pick from by Friday, or you would rather sound like everyone else.
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Just want the one page? The Page, $497.