Move as One.

When your brand has outgrown the story you tell about it, we find the one true story underneath.

We are Cheerleader Agency, the European Category Design Studio. One that takes category strategy all the way into brand, design, and market impact.

If this is on your mind, let’s get to work together.

Funding

From concept to category.

We helped Elke grow from a concept on paper to a brand that raised €1M in pre-launch funding.

One Move cases

NVRD

More authority for industry association NVRD

Which box does the market put you in?

Pick your own box

Our approach

From ambition to adoption. Without doubt.

A category isn't built in an afternoon. It's a sequence of moves that turns ambition into clarity, clarity into conviction, and conviction into action. We do this in three steps.

    Category 
Strategy

    We determine which category you can claim, what you stand for, and how you redefine the playing field.

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    Brand
    Design

    We shape your category claim into a distinctive brand that strengthens your position and makes it instantly recognizable.

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    Go to
    Market

    We build the connective tissue to activate your category, charge it, and launch it convincingly in the market.

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Our Solutions

The challenges we tackle together

You have a good product. Your customers are happy. But every new conversation starts with explaining — and the explaining takes too long. The story doesn’t land the way you mean it. Not because the product isn’t good enough, but because the context is missing: the frame that tells people why your solution is exactly the right one. Does this sound familiar?

  • Why doesn’t the market immediately understand what we do?
  • How do we stop explaining and start convincing?
  • How do we differentiate without losing ourselves?
  • How do we know when our positioning is right?

You’re growing. But it’s not happening by itself. Every new client conversation costs more energy than it should. The pipeline moves, but slowly. Your team works hard, but it feels like rowing upstream. That’s rarely a sales or marketing problem. It’s a positioning problem. When the market doesn’t understand what you do better, every conversation becomes a battle for conviction. Does this sound familiar?

  • Why does new business cost us so much time and energy?
  • What’s holding back our growth when the product is good?
  • How do we make the right clients find us — instead of the other way around?
  • How do we build momentum instead of forcing it?

Ask five people on your team what you do and you’ll get five different answers. The original story was never really documented. It lives in the founder’s head, but doesn’t scale. Every new employee, every new channel, every new conversation adds noise. Until the brand becomes a mosaic instead of a statement. Now it sounds like everyone else.

That’s not a communication problem. It’s self-competition — every version of your story fighting for attention inside the same story.

  • How do we make sure everyone tells the same story?
  • Which story should the founder no longer have to tell themselves?
  • When is our story strong enough to work without us?
  • How do we keep the story consistent as we grow fast?

You’re good at what you do. Your clients know it. Your colleagues know it. But the market — the people who don’t know you yet — don’t see it. You’re being underestimated, overlooked, or compared with players who aren’t nearly as far along as you are. That’s not modesty. It’s a visibility problem. Authority isn’t something you have — it’s what the market attributes to you. And that requires a different strategy. Does this sound familiar?

  • How do we become seen as the authority we already are?
  • Why are we being compared to players we’ve long since passed?
  • How do we translate our expertise into a position the market recognises?
  • How do we go from undervalued to inevitable?

Most brands fight for attention within an existing category. You want something different: to define a market that doesn’t exist yet, or that exists but has no name. That’s not just ambitious — it’s the smartest move a founder can make. Because whoever defines the category also sets the rules. But it requires a different strategy than positioning. It requires category design. Does this sound familiar?

  • How do we define a category that doesn’t exist yet?
  • How do we condition a market that doesn’t yet understand our solution?
  • What’s the difference between a niche and a category?
  • How do we become the reference point in a market we defined ourselves?

Built something real, but the market still can't place you?

Let's find the one line of thinking that changes that.

Hard work on the wrong problem is still hard work.

Find out what's really in the way

Our workshops

Insight. Engagement. Clarity.

We don’t deliver a strategy document and go home. We work through it together, so the clarity sticks. Depending on where you are, we run focused sessions to unlock what’s stuck.

Category workshop

Category workshop

How our category workshop helps you create a new market category.

Fuel for thinkers

Sharp thinking for brands that won’t settle

How to launch your own brand

How to Launch Your Own Brand

create a brand identity from scratch

How to create a strong brand identity from scratch

Why Branding needs to start with the future

Why branding needs to start with the future

complex to clear

How Brand Design Turns Complexity into Clarity

from revelation to revolution

From Revelation to Revolution

revelation-part3

Great ideas don’t spread on their own

Een abstracte suggestie van de toekomst

How We Realize the Future of Your Brand

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Experiences

We’re incredibly happy with our rebranding—both the process and the result. Short lines of communication, highly flexible, a pleasantly critical approach, and creative craftsmanship. A collaboration that definitely leaves us wanting more!

Kelvin Derksen

Communication manager – NVRD