Every brand resource tells you something different.
Start with positioning. No — start with audience. No — here's a 40-page template, good luck.
I was building my own brand — a handcrafted botanical incense line called Sensori Awakened — and I kept hitting the same wall. The vision was clear. The feeling was precise. I knew exactly what the brand should be before I could explain what it was.
The tools I found were built for one side of that problem or the other. The creative tools asked me to feel. The operational tools asked me to execute. Nothing helped me translate between the two.
That gap is where most founders lose the thread.
I built Theseus because I needed it myself.
It is an interactive brand-building tool built in Figma Make. One question at a time. Four stages. Each one deeper than the last.
The Horn pulls your founding premise out of the abstract and names it.
The Maze maps the sensory and visual world your brand actually inhabits.
The Heart confronts what you are selling, to whom, at what price — and writes your positioning statement back to you in a single sentence.
The Sword turns everything into an operational playbook for a one-person founder.
The system listens. It adapts. It quotes your own words back to you as the questions get sharper.
By the end, every decision traces back to the first thing you said was true about your brand. That connective logic is The Thread — borrowed from the myth of Theseus navigating the labyrinth. The founder is Theseus. The complexity of building alone is the labyrinth. The methodology is what gets you out.:
That is what the thread does when it holds.
You leave with four generated documents and a markdown file ready to build on.
AI Fashion Shopping & Outfit Recommendation Platform
Designed a modern AI-powered fashion shopping platform that helps users discover personalized outfits and shop smarter.
The concept combines AI-driven outfit recommendations, style matching, virtual outfit previews, and a personalized wardrobe experience in a clean, premium interface.
Recently got interviewed by Breef alongside our brand strategist @Helen Heidel about getting to know your audience, building brands that actually connect with people, and why trying to appeal to everyone might be holding your brand back.
We also talked about sharing your work before it feels perfect, which is definitely advice I need to take myself lol.
My portfolio just got a new look.
Fresh design with motion and a lot of small details you only find when you start playing with it.
See it live: https://rivii.work
Building something? If you want a site that looks as good as the thing you’ve built, my inbox is open.