I turn brand into measurable growth

A full-spectrum brand leader spanning creative direction, web, and AI-driven growth systems — backed by analytics. I turn brand into outcomes you can measure, and build the teams and systems that keep them compounding.

Stefanie Bernal
Stefanie Bernal Brand & Growth Leader — Creative & AI
Proven outcomes across brands
$18M
revenue behind the brand
Inc. 5000
first listing, earned on brand
$7M
raised behind the next brand
14K
organic users a month, from zero
62%
of traffic earned through search
26%
sustained quarterly user growth
17×
AI-search referrals in a year
#1
organic result for its own name
70K
peak new users a month
$18M
revenue behind the brand
Inc. 5000
first listing, earned on brand
$7M
raised behind the next brand
14K
organic users a month, from zero
62%
of traffic earned through search
26%
sustained quarterly user growth
17×
AI-search referrals in a year
#1
organic result for its own name
70K
peak new users a month

One operating model, from brand to growth

Each stage feeds the next, measured end to end — and increasingly run with AI agents inside the work rather than beside it.

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Brand

Positioning, identity, and design systems built to scale.

Web

Experience and conversion that turn visits into pipeline.

Growth

SEO, GEO, lifecycle, and demand that compound.

AI

Agents inside the work — systems a team runs, not just prompts.

Brand decisions, measured in growth

Three chapters from building brand, web, and growth — each an outcome first, with the strategy and craft behind it.

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The brand system behind Corvee's growth

Design SystemsBrand IdentityCollateral

Built Corvee's design system and every asset its teams deployed — from a logo and a thin brand book to the standards that carried the brand across sales, marketing, CS, and finance.

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Engineering organic search from zero

SEO & GEOContentAnalytics

Built organic search into a channel the company owned — an SEO and generative engine optimization strategy that grew organic to ~14,000 users a month (about 62% of traffic) and 17× AI-search referrals.

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Stefanie Bernal×Design partner

Full circle with the designer who trained me

PartnershipProductionBranding

The senior designer who hired me out of college later joined my team as a contractor. A full-circle collaboration on production, PM, and branding, in her words.

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The range behind the strategy

Direction rests on craft. A wider body of hands-on brand, design, and experimental work — proof of the eye that shapes every decision. All of it made by me.

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Corvee brand system collage

Brand & Design

Identity, campaigns, web, email, and print across B2B SaaS, beauty, and small business — the executional craft behind a decade of brand building.

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DM-Denim graphic elements guidelines book

Experiments

Typographic studies, personal explorations, and AI-assisted experiments — where the eye keeps sharpening and new ideas get tested.

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Notes on brand, growth, and AI

A point of view on where marketing is heading — and a live demonstration of the GEO and content strategy I build, applied to my own site.

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Let's build something that grows

Open to brand and growth leadership roles. The fastest way to reach me is email or LinkedIn.