Brand Identity Web Design Social Media Go-to-Market ◉ Active · Launching 2026

Equitide
Building the Brand from Zero

Pre-seeded crowdfunded real estate investment trust · 2026 · Building the full marketing, brand, web, and social media foundation ahead of a crowdsource funding launch.

Final Identity Equitide · 2026

2026 brand identity. SVG source files — pixel-perfect at any size, on any background.

Active · Crowdfund opening August 2026

// The company

Equitide is a vertically integrated real estate trust built on one idea: your money should do something good while it grows. Margin is deferred to exit instead of extracted during construction, so projects cost less to build, meaning better returns for investors and more attainable rents for tenants. When I joined at founding, the brand was a name and a concept. Everything else (identity, website, social presence, investor messaging, go-to-market) was mine to build.

The brief

"Build the brand that makes investors trust us with their money and communities want us in their neighborhoods, before we have a single completed building to show them."

// The 2026 brand system

Equitide has to win two audiences at once: investors who need to trust a return, and communities who need to trust the mission. The name (equity plus tide) gave the answer: the wave-form mark, explored across Trustworthy, Home Developer, and Disruptor postures before landing between the first and last. The June 2026 system update retired the original Navy/Cream/Gold palette. The new system (Burgundy, Brand Green, Deep Green on White/Stone grounds) is built for a regulated offering, with WCAG-verified contrast across all pairings.

Equitide 2026 color palette specification — six colors with hex, RGB, CMYK, and usage rules
2026 palette specification: White · Stone · Near Black · Burgundy · Brand Green · Deep Green. HEX, RGB, CMYK, WCAG ratings, and Pantone matches. The previous Navy/Cream/Gold palette is retired. Authored as a governing document, not a moodboard.
Interactive

Explore the full Equitide design system

The complete brand system as a living reference document: color with WCAG ratings, all twelve logo variants, the typographic scale, UI components, spacing, and the voice and tone rules that govern every piece of Equitide communication.

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Color palette Logo system Typography UI components Spacing Voice & tone

// The system in application

A system only earns its keep when it produces consistent work across every surface. These pieces (web, print, and paid social) are built entirely from the tokens above: the same palette, the Inter and IBM Plex type stack, the logo variants matched to their backgrounds, and the compliance rules that put a labeled disclosure on every return figure.

Equitide homepage and live offering card built from the design system
Web · Homepage hero and live offering card. Full-color wordmark on stone, Brand Green progress and accents, Burgundy primary actions, and the required disclosure traveling with the return figures.
Equitide investor one-page leave-behind built from the design system
Print · Investor one-pager. White-and-Green wordmark on the Burgundy header, the four messaging pillars, and IBM Plex Mono for all figures.
Equitide paid social ad built from the design system
Paid social · Square display ad. Near Black ground with the EQ mark as watermark, Brand Green CTA, and a shortened compliant disclosure.

// Website direction

The site serves investors, future residents, and community partners from one front door, under securities-offering rules most brand sites never touch. Every return figure is a labeled target; the disclosure travels with every page. The live site at equitide.io carries the company's first offering, opening summer 2026.

Equitide equitide.io live site — three pages from the 2026 launch build
equitide.io as launched, 2026. Left: access-led homepage with the $10 minimum and 12% target return. Center: alignment narrative with the waterfall explained. Right: live offering page for Argo with the raise progress bar and investor metrics.
Equitide website direction — earlier narrative explorations in the v1 direction
Earlier direction explorations. Three narrative bets tested before landing on the final: access-led, alignment-led, and stack/community-led. The v1 Navy/Teal palette; the live site uses the 2026 Burgundy/Brand Green system.

// The WeFunder campaign video

I scripted, directed, and produced the WeFunder campaign launch video: a 90-second cut delivered through HeyGen with Canva graphics. Twelve script iterations to land the right register: personal and conversational, not pitch-deck formal. Posted to Garth's personal LinkedIn first, with the company page resharing, to let pre-launch trust attach to the founder before the raise.

Equitide WeFunder Campaign Launch Video · Garth Wells, CEO · Scripted, directed, and produced by Dana Constance · HeyGen AI video · Canva graphics · 2026

Companion case

How a two-person team ships like five: the Equitide content engine

The brand is built. Keeping it alive across five channels every week is a second discipline. See the AI-accelerated workflow behind the social presence, the weekly content engine, and a 600% follower lift in four weeks.

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AI workflow Content ops Social strategy Fact-checking

// Status and scope

Live

Brand system, site, and social all active at equitide.io

12

Logo variants across the full identity system

Aug 2026

Crowdfunding campaign opens to investors

WCAG

Verified contrast across every color pairing

This case study will expand as the brand and launch develop. Check equitide.io for the live site.