Research & Positioning
Audience and stakeholder research, positioning, narrative and strategic direction.


Arch29 works with organizations navigating growth, change and complexity — bringing clarity to how the business is understood, experienced and supported digitally.
The work starts with understanding what the business actually needs.
Research, experience and technology come together around the problem — with the shape of the work determined by what the business actually needs.
Audience and stakeholder research, positioning, narrative and strategic direction.


Journeys, information architecture, content strategy and experience direction.
Platform strategy, structured content, CMS architecture and frontend implementation.
Selected Work
Selected engagements across research, positioning, experience architecture and digital delivery — from clarifying complex organizations to shaping the experiences and platforms that support them.
Including award-winning and internationally presented work.

The business has evolved, but its positioning, story or digital experience hasn’t kept pace. What once worked can start to undermine clarity and credibility.
Expansion, a new offering, partnership, investment or launch brings new audiences and expectations. The business needs to show up with the clarity the moment requires.
Audiences, messages, content and digital touchpoints have multiplied over time. What should feel coherent becomes harder to understand, navigate and manage.

Start with the business, the people around it and what is already known. Research, evidence and constraints clarify the real problem before a direction is chosen.
Turn that understanding into choices — positioning, narrative, journeys, structure and experience direction. The goal is a clear point of view on what should change, and what should not.
Carry the direction into the digital experience, content structure and technical implementation. Strategy stays connected to the thing people actually use.
Thinking on positioning, experience and the digital decisions that shape how businesses are understood.
Arch29 Labs
Labs is Arch29's prototyping environment, where strategic, experience and technical decisions are explored in working form before a larger investment is made.
Explore Labs

Arch29 is an independent strategy, experience and technology practice.
We work with organizations navigating growth, change and complexity — helping clarify how the business is positioned, understood and experienced, then carrying that direction into digital platforms and implementation.
The work can begin with research, positioning or an unclear audience problem rather than a predetermined deliverable.
Often when the business has changed faster than the way it is understood or experienced.
That may be during growth, repositioning, expansion, a new offering, launch or another high-stakes moment — or when audiences, content and digital touchpoints have accumulated without enough structure connecting them.
The visible problem may be a website or platform. The underlying problem is often broader.
Arch29 is best suited to established and leadership-led organizations dealing with meaningful complexity.
The common thread is not industry. It is a situation where positioning, audience needs, experience and digital execution can no longer be treated as separate problems.
Yes.
Arch29 can work from research and strategic direction through experience architecture, content systems and digital implementation. The scope depends on the problem rather than requiring every engagement to include every discipline.
That continuity is intentional: decisions made early in the work remain connected to what is ultimately designed and built.
The work generally moves through three stages: understand, define and realize.
We begin by understanding the business, audiences, existing evidence and constraints. That understanding informs positioning and experience decisions. When implementation is part of the engagement, those decisions are then carried into the digital experience and technical build.
The depth of each stage changes depending on what the organization already knows and where the real uncertainty sits.
Arch29 Labs is a prototyping environment for exploring strategic, experience and technical decisions in working form.
Prototypes can be used to examine structure, journeys, workflows and product ideas before committing to full production. Some Labs work is self-directed and publicly available; other prototypes are created privately during early client engagements.
Labs makes ideas tangible enough to discuss, challenge and refine before larger decisions are made.
Arch29 is intentionally structured as an independent multidisciplinary practice rather than a collection of separate service departments.
Research, positioning, experience architecture and technical implementation can stay connected around the same problem instead of being handed from one discipline to another.
That does not mean every engagement requires everything Arch29 can do. It means the solution is not predetermined before the problem is understood.
Most practices decorate.We architect.