Crop. When the strategy needs to be seen.

When your brand needs designing as well as defining, that's Crop, the full‑stack branding agency I run with phenomenal designer Dave Forsyth.

Carl Mesner Lyons and Dave Forsyth working together in the Crop studio

Strategy and design, one team.

Crop finds the truth about a brand, makes it beautiful and crops the rest. Dave and I lead every project ourselves, use modern AI-era tools to move fast, and bring in trusted specialists when the work calls for them. No juniors, no account handlers, none of the agency faff.

Carl Mesner Lyons

Strategy and story

Carl Mesner Lyons

I lead strategy and story: turning a brand's reason for being into positioning and language that actually gets used, from the boardroom deck to the sales call.

Dave Forsyth

Design and identity

Dave Forsyth

Dave leads design and identity, with international experience creating brands for global businesses. From visual identities to websites and design systems, he builds work that survives contact with the real world. Lucky Dave →

CloudCMO or Crop?

Both start with the same thinking. The difference is how far you need it taken.

CloudCMO

Come straight to me.

When you need a senior marketing brain, and your own team or agency will bring the work to life.

  • Fractional CMO
  • Brand strategy in words: positioning, narrative, messaging, tone of voice
  • Go-to-market and focused projects
  • Advisory and mentoring
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Crop

The whole brand, built.

When the brand needs designing as well as defining, by one senior team that owns the result from first idea to final asset.

  • Brand strategy and naming
  • Visual identity and design systems
  • Websites, from design to build
  • Rollout: campaigns, templates, training
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The short version: if it needs designing, it's Crop.

Define. Deliver. Defend.

Brands are hard to build and easy to lose. In an AI world, both are truer than ever. So Crop does three things.

Define

Find the truth, make it beautiful, crop the rest.

A brand platform, story and identity that is true, motivating and distinct. The foundation everything else stands on.

Deliver

Everything the story needs to be told.

Website, tone of voice, messaging, templates, workshops, training. Built so your team can tell it without us in the room.

Defend

Keep the promise, every time.

Our time and our tools, so the brand you build survives the day-to-day reality of running a business.

Brands we've cropped.

Every project gets the right team. Alongside Dave and me, Crop draws on a bench of trusted specialists, so you get exactly the skills the job needs, and no more. See all the work →

Let's build a brand worth talking about.

Tell us what you're working on. You'll hear back from Dave or me, not an account manager.

Just need me? For fractional CMO, strategy or advisory work, book a CloudCMO call →