I spent 15+ years as a CMO and Marketing Director for other companies before I went Bald. I lost my hair – but found my calling:

Leading a creative agency that builds unapologetically bold ideas for brands with big (hairy) audacious goals. 

With emotion, insight, and imagination, we Baldly take you where no brand has gone before.

Brands go Bald because:

❌ Full marketing teams are expensive to staff in-house
❌ Finding reliable freelancers takes a ton of trial and error with high turnover
❌ Companies need fresh takes from people who can see the forest for the trees
❌ Average agencies burn businesses with cookie-cutter processes and soulless results

What Bald does different:

✅ Treat clients like partners and collaborate
✅ Operate as an immediate extension of your in-house creative
✅ Provide golden trifecta of strategy, creative, and marketing under one roof

Bald’s team of world-class branding experts, designers, strategists, and marketers have worked with brands like Tesla, Audi, Coca Cola, Under Armour, HP, and Volkswagen. 

Between us, we’ve directed Super Bowl ads, won 9 Cannes Lions, 19 Loerie awards, Best ad on TV awards, and more…

Here’s what we offer:
Brand strategy
Brand identity
Brand marketing
Brand campaigns

We’re rulebreakers, misfits, free-thinkers, and future-dreamers.

With our unique process, we’ll help you go Baldly where no brand has gone before. 

Our magic method:
1️⃣ Research and discovery
2️⃣ Insights & pattern recognition
3️⃣ Brand definition
4️⃣ Brand expression
5️⃣ Brand distribution

It’s hard to see what makes your brand truly shine and stand out from the inside. Bald can shave your creative load and comb through the noise to wax smooth your bald spots.

Let your heart rule your head.

Ready to go Bald? —> ​​https://bald.agency/

Hillel Hurwitz

2025
Year of the Snake 🐍
Shedding our skin.

Baby agency → full-fledged shop
One of the Fastest Growing Agencies in America (Adweek)

Team Retreat: Costa Rica 🌴

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2026
Year of the Horse 🐎
Giddy up.

Fastest growing → most innovative and ground-breaking agencies in America.

Team Retreat: A ranch in Texas 🤠

Let’s go!!!!

Building brands with sharp strategy, crisp creative, and masterful marketing.

Christmas of 2023 I hit rock bottom.

Hubby and I had just moved to a new state and I began the harrowing task of job searching, where I was in a constant state of up and down. My nerves were fried from thinking a job offer was on the horizon only for it to crumble away and I'm back at square one.

My husband wasn't able to work because he was starting aviation training, so all the pressure is on me to support us. 

But no problem, right? I'm a creative. Time to get creative and solve this problem. 

December rolled around. 

From the heavens, like a shining angel, descended my dream company with an interview request for me. 

After a long 6 week process, many emails, and two interviews, they ghosted me. I knew what was coming next.

It broke me. 

During the day I would hold it together, but at night, my thoughts overwhelmed me. 

I would lie awake for hours combing through all my life decisions wondering how I got to be such a failure. 

I would think about how the one time my husband needed me to support us, I let him down.

The next week, it came. 

The rejection letter. They were nice about it. 

I read the email, and something inside of me shifted. I knew what I had to do. 

I felt weirdly free. I decided I would hire myself.

I had no idea what I was doing, but I tried anyway.

Printing some cringey flyers, I went door-to-door to local businesses (I mostly talked awkwardly to confused receptionists lol). What I was doing was not effective. I dove into research and books.

In May 2024, I launched Pivot Branding. Within a few months, I realized my editing background combined with design skills created something startups desperately needed: not just a pretty pitch deck, but one that distills complex technology into words investors actually understand.

A few months later, I hit $10K in monthly revenue.

Now I get to do what I'm genuinely built for: helping businesses thrive by clarifying their message through both words and design.

I'm obsessed with using storytelling structure to create...

✅ Pitch Decks to land investors
✅ Pitch Scripts for smooth presentations
✅ Landing Page Design that converts

I mainly work with startups in the Seed - Series A funding rounds.

Versaviya Despars

Not to be overly vulnerable, but the last few days have been difficult.

Imposter syndrome hit hard.

Then yesterday, I got a message from Brady Starr, a founder I consulted with last week:

"I've been thinking a lot about our call. Your framing around decision fatigue as the core problem really stuck with me. It helped snap a bunch of things into focus—not just for TasteOS, but honestly for how I think about positioning products in general. I've already started tightening the story around that single throughline."

Just like that... imposter syndrome gone.

What I do works. It helps people. 

But when I'm stuck in my own head, it's hard to see that. 

Imposter syndrome has a way of making my world feel small and my work feel meaningless.

Brady kept going:
"Your feedback wasn't just 'nice notes'—it actually helped me commit to a single story instead of circling a bunch of good-but-competing ideas. The way you pressure-test messaging, cut through noise, and force clarity is exactly what founders need when they're too close to their own product. It was immediately useful, not abstract."

The next time you're feeling down, just remember: Someone out there has a better life because of what you do. 

They may not reach out and tell you like Brady did, but that doesn't mean it's not true.

You have something special to offer the world that no one else has.

Keep going.

I help startups unlock funding by telling the right story in their pitch. | Decks & Landing Pages

Home office update – now featuring Jackson Pollock inspired flooring, paired with a mixed-media drywall mural. Exploring negative space through a deliberate no-furniture concept that allows the materials to speak for themselves.

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I was on a call with a founder who was raising seed money.

I asked a simple question.

“Do you have any data showing your app actually improves focus?”

Silence.

Then: “Uh… not really. I might have a testimonial somewhere.”

I had to level with him. 

"Your first priority is to get some data. I don't care if it's five of your friends testing this in your living room. You need something to show investors even a little proof that your idea works."

Because I see this pattern often, founders build a product and expect to get flooded by investor cash... with zero evidence of demand or proof it works.

When investors are evaluating a startup, they're asking themselves:

Is this worth the risk?

Even tiny traction signals reduce risk and goes a long way. 

If you’re pre-revenue, show SOMETHING.
- Letters of intent.
- A scrappy pilot.
- A waitlist of people who actually signed up.

There’s a massive difference between these two statements:

“We’ll have traction after we raise.”
“We already have traction. Now we want to scale.”

One makes investors nervous, the other makes them lean in.

You need evidence that someone, somewhere, will use this or pay for it.

Start small.
Prove it works.
Then ask for money to make it bigger.

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photo: me searching for all the missing data startups don't have

genius business hack: schedule 2am - 3am for your deepest work.

hear me out.

you're up anyway.

You're thinking about business anyway. 

You're writing emails in your head. You're redesigning your pricing model. 

You're having imaginary conversations with clients where you're way more articulate than you'll actually be.

This week alone I've drafted 5 LinkedIn posts, 3 hard conversations, 1 Slack message, and 2 business plans while staring at my ceiling at 2:47am.

So why fight it?

Just lean in. Block the time. "Deep work: existential dread edition."

Put all that anxiety to work FOR you. Your 2am brain is unhinged, supercharged by stress, and weirdly productive.

It's already writing your quarterly projections and revising your website copy. 

Might as well feel productive for it.

When you inevitably solve your entire marketing strategy at 3:14am, you'll want receipts.

Sleep is for people without businesses to build anyway.

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(I'm kidding. Please sleep. Your brain needs rest 🤣)

Winter storm? No thanks. Spent my week in Cancun with some seriously smart marketing peeps. Business retreats hit different when there’s an ocean view. ☀️

The Queen of England and I were chatting in my throne room the other day and she told me she’s very jealous of me being the queen of messaging for startups.

I told her I understood. Power recognizes power.

She asked how I rule my kingdom.

I said mostly with coffee, Canva, and politely telling founders that their “quick overview” is actually twelve ideas fighting to the death.

She nodded. Very regal. But I noticed a glint in her eye.

She had another question.

“With all those competing ideas,” she asked, “how are you supposed to be memorable to investors?”

I paused.
The question was sharp. I could feel her testing my claim to the throne.

I lifted my chin.

“The trick,” I said, “Is to minimize the amount of brain power the investor needs to understand your idea. I have developed a process to do just that.”

She crossed her arms, skeptical. 

“What does that process look like?” she asked.

I sat up straighter in my throne.

“First, you decide who you’re talking to.
Then you ask one ruthless question: if this audience only remembers one thing about your startup, what should it be?”

She leaned in.

I continued, 
“You boil that answer down to a single phrase.” 

“And then,” I said, my eyes growing with excitement, “everything earns its place. Every slide, sentence, and visual must support that idea. If it doesn’t, it’s thrown out of the castle.”

Silence.

Finally, she smiled.

“So effective communication isn’t about sounding impressive,” she said. “It’s about editing.”

Exactly.

We adjusted our crowns. Mutual respect was established.

The moral of the story is simple:
Investors don’t remember everything.
They remember one thing.

If you don’t decide what that one thing is, they will.

And they’re usually thinking about lunch.

ok bestie, we need to talk.

it's time to lock in for 2026.

you goofed off for the first week of the new year but... it's time to play that Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack on YouTube and get inspired.

I wanna see it. 

I wanna see you absolutely demolish your goals while everyone else is still figuring out their morning routine.

This is your year to stop saying "I'll get to it eventually" and actually get to it.

That pitch deck you've been putting off? Build it.

That rebrand you keep thinking about? Start it.

That email you've been meaning to send to that one person? Send it.

I'll wait.

The people who win in business aren't the ones with the best ideas.

They're the ones who actually do the thing while everyone else is still planning to plan.

So crank up that epic Hans Zimmer soundtrack, make yourself an unnecessarily large coffee, and channel your inner Jack Sparrow. 

He may not have been the best pirate, but everyone knew his name.

2026 is yours for the taking. Go get it.

He had just gotten his redesigned pitch deck back from a new designer.

And he hated it.

She changed the background.

Updated the icon colors.

Tweaked a few layouts.

“That’s not what I needed,” he said.

“I don’t need just a designer.”

“I need someone to look at the information and tell me what to remove.”
“ChatGPT helps a bit,” he added.

“But it’s still not great.”

I smiled.

Because he had just described my job perfectly. I don’t just make things look nice. I take a butcher knife to your content and question everything.

Does this slide support your one main point?
No? Cut it.

Are you missing proof that anyone actually wants this product?
Add it.

Is this sentence doing real work?
Or just taking up space?
Delete it.

Most designers add polish.

I start by tearing into it like a madwoman with a chainsaw.

Because investors don’t fund pretty decks.

They fund clear, compelling stories that don't confuse them with competing information.

Your deck doesn’t need more slides.

It needs fewer, better ones.

If you’re sitting on a 20-slide deck that feels bloated, unfocused, or chaotic, that’s the problem.

And it’s exactly what I fix.

I don’t redesign.

I rebuild from the story up.

That’s why founders come back after working with designers who just “made it look nice.”

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