Building a Scalable Brand for the Middle East’s Fintech Leader
Designing for Trust, Delivering with Clarity
Lean is transforming financial infrastructure in the Middle East - making it easy for startups to securely access user-permissioned banking data through a developer-first API. With $105M in funding and fast-growing adoption, their brand needed to keep pace with the product and show up consistently across every touchpoint.
The Challenge
Lean had the bones of a strong identity, but without formal guidelines in place, key visuals were being used inconsistently. As the company scaled, this led to fragmented design outputs that diluted recognition and made it harder to communicate with clarity.
The Approach
As part of the Anyday.Design team, we worked closely with Lean’s marketing and product teams to refine and expand their brand system. This meant identifying what made the brand recognizable, streamlining its core elements and building a more cohesive visual foundation - one that could flex across formats without losing integrity.
This wasn’t about redesigning everything. It was about elevating what worked and creating design assets that reinforced Lean’s positioning at every stage of growth.
What We Delivered
Brand identity refinement and systemization
Multi-platform content for marketing and social
Motion graphics for campaigns and feature launches
Print and event materials for high-visibility touchpoints
Custom-designed merchandise to extend the digital-first brand into the physical world
The Result
Lean emerged with a more unified, professional and scalable brand presence - one that matched the quality of their product and supported their next stage of growth. Today, the brand identity we helped shape plays a key role in how Lean builds trust, communicates value and stands out in a rapidly evolving space.
A bold, flexible brand system designed to scale with MENA’s leading fintech - crafted for trust, clarity, recognition and momentum across every touchpoint.