Brand Audit
Positioning, identity and system audit with prioritised recommendations.
Creative Consulting
Creative Consulting for teams that want senior direction.
Audits, workshops and fractional creative direction — senior craft and strategy dropped into your team without the overhead of hiring one.
Overview
What this practice does — and who it's for.
What it is
Advisory engagements — brand, website, packaging and creative audits, workshops, and fractional creative direction for in-house teams.
Why it matters
Most in-house teams don't need another agency. They need a senior creative voice, a sharper brief, and a system that scales.
Who it's for
Founders and CMOs whose in-house creative has plateaued, teams juggling multiple agencies, and businesses between full-time creative leaders.
Business outcomes
Higher creative standards, aligned teams, faster decisions and a brand that stops drifting.
Capabilities
Everything included inside Creative Consulting.
Every capability below is delivered inside this service — no separate engagement, no separate scope.
Website Audit
UX, SEO, performance and conversion audit for existing sites.
Packaging Audit
Shelf, structural and system audit for FMCG and D2C ranges.
Creative Audit
Full creative-output review across channels with a strategic roadmap.
Brand Workshops
Founder and team workshops on positioning, voice and creative direction.
Marketing Consultation
Advisory on channel strategy, creative planning and campaign architecture.
Design Consultation
Creative direction on active projects — brand, product or campaign.
Fractional Creative Director
Part-time senior creative leadership for in-house teams.
Long-Term Brand Advisory
Ongoing advisory retainer for founder-led and mid-market brands.
Problems we solve
The patterns we see — and change.
If you recognise more than two of these, creative consulting is likely the highest-leverage next step for the brand.
- In-house team has plateaued.
- No senior creative voice to make the call.
- Multiple agencies, no coherent brand.
- Founder is the creative bottleneck.
- Brand is quietly drifting.
- Hard to hire senior creative leadership.
Our approach
How a creative consulting engagement runs.
A considered process built for clarity, collaboration and craft at every step — you always know what happens next.
- 01
Discovery
Founder interviews, business goals, and audience clarity — the brief is engineered before any craft begins.
- 02
Research
Category audit, competitor mapping and customer signal to ground every decision in evidence.
- 03
Strategy
Positioning, narrative and creative brief that connect business outcomes to design direction.
- 04
Creative Direction
One clear creative concept with distinctive territory — reviewed before we go wide.
- 05
Design
Craft phase — systems, assets, films or interfaces produced with editorial discipline.
- 06
Review
Structured feedback loops with stakeholders and pressure-tests against real-world context.
- 07
Delivery
Production-ready files, guidelines and rollouts, hand-held through the launch window.
- 08
Support
Ongoing partnership — templates, iteration, and evolution as the brand grows.
Benefits
What changes after the work ships.
Creative Consulting is an investment, so it should be judged on outcomes — recognition, trust, pricing power and the speed at which your team can move.
Senior judgement, on demand
A second opinion from someone who has shipped brands, before you commit budget to the wrong direction.
Raise the quality bar
Clear creative standards and review rhythm lift everything your in-house team and vendors produce.
Spend less on rework
Most creative waste comes from unclear briefs. We fix the brief before the work starts.
Keep the brand coherent as you scale
More channels and more people mean more drift. Consulting keeps the centre holding.
InvestmentTransparent pricing.
Transparent pricing.
Tailored solutions.
A starting point for scope, timeline and outcome. Every proposal is scoped to your business after a Discovery Call.
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Prices in non-INR currencies are indicative conversions from INR at current reference rates. All invoices are issued in INR + 18% GST.
Launch
For a focused audit or workshop.
₹25,000 – ₹60,000
Timeline · 1–2 weeks
- Single audit or workshop
- Structured report
- Prioritised recommendations
- 60-min presentation
- Follow-up Q&A
Growth
For monthly advisory and creative direction.
₹75,000 – ₹2,00,000 / month
Timeline · Ongoing
- Monthly advisory retainer
- Bi-weekly creative reviews
- Team workshops (quarterly)
- Live project feedback
- Async Slack support
Signature
For fractional creative leadership.
Starting from ₹3,00,000 / quarter
Timeline · Ongoing
- Fractional Creative Director
- Weekly team leadership
- Cross-agency alignment
- Brand governance
- Hiring & vendor support
- Quarterly business review
Every project is unique. The investment ranges above are indicative and vary depending on project scope, deliverables, timeline and business goals. Final proposals are shared after a Discovery Call.
All prices in INR · GST extra
Need something tailored?
Let's discuss your project and recommend the right solution for your business.
Industries we serve
Sector fluency, not sector limits.
We work across ten primary sectors, each with its own visual language and buying behaviour.
- Healthcare
- FMCG
- Food & Beverage
- Manufacturing
- Education
- Technology
- Real Estate
- Luxury
- Wellness
- Startups
Why Iksh Studio
A studio built like a consultancy.
Four reasons founders choose Iksh over a freelancer, a large agency or a template — and stay for years.
Strategy First
Every project begins with positioning, audience truths and business outcomes — never a moodboard.
Research Driven
Founder interviews, category audits and customer signal replace guesswork with evidence.
Business Focused
We design for the metric that matters — pricing power, recall, conversion, retention.
Long-Term Partner
Most engagements renew. We work as the senior creative layer on your team for years.
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