From the first business plan to a team that runs on its own. Strategy, brand, marketing, support and AI from one partner, so your business grows in the right direction.
Find your stage
Choose the sentence that sounds most like your business today, and see where we would start.
Every business moves through these five stages. You can start at any of them, and we can stay with you through the rest.
Stage 01
Start by turning the idea into a plan.
We work out what you will sell, who will buy it and how it will make money, then write it into a plan you can act on.
What we do
A website is one piece of a business. We work on the whole of it, from the first plan to a team that runs well without us.
Get clear on the business.
What you sell, who buys it, and how it makes money, written into a plan you can act on and show to lenders or partners.
Look like a business people trust.
An identity and an online presence that make you look established from your first day.
Get in front of customers.
Photography, video, music and content that show what you offer and give people a reason to choose you. Music is composed for your adverts, videos and events.
Free up your time.
Reliable support for the daily work, and AI set up inside the tools you already use, tested so it can be relied on.
Build a team that can do it themselves.
Practical training and independent advice, so your people use AI well on their own work and the business keeps improving.
Start at any stage.
Begin with one need, and we can stay with you for the next.
Selected work
Brand, photography and digital work for businesses at the start of something.
Packages
Two packages cover what most new businesses need first. Each is scoped to you and priced before work begins.
Plan + Build
For businesses getting ready to open their doors.
Fixed price, quoted after a short conversation.
Ask about LaunchReach + Run + Grow
For businesses ready for more customers and less admin.
Fixed price, quoted after a short conversation.
Ask about GrowthAny stage
For businesses that need one thing done well.
Fixed price, quoted after a short conversation.
Ask about a servicePublications
A two-volume series on creating professional images with AI, published by Lisiwe Academy. It is the same method we use in our own visual work.
AI Prompt Engineering for Visual Media, Volume 1
How to describe an image the way a photographer sees it: camera angle and framing, light and time of day, visual style and composition, then the visual character of places across eight regions of the world.
AI Prompt Engineering for Visual Media, Volume 2
A step-by-step method for getting consistent results: building characters that stay the same from image to image, keeping a style steady across a series, and diagnosing and fixing an image that misses.
About Lisiwe
New businesses often have a vision, but not a clear path forward. We combine business strategy with creative work to turn that vision into a practical plan and help bring it to life.
How we work
Clear scope and a fixed price, so you always know where your project stands.
We learn about your business, what you need and when you need it.
You receive a written proposal with the scope, the timeline and a fixed price.
We do the work and review it with you at agreed points along the way.
You receive everything we made, and we show your team how to use it.
Questions
Anything else, ask us directly. We reply to every message.
It depends on what you need. Your proposal states the timeline before any work starts. Smaller projects take a few weeks, and larger ones are planned in stages so you see progress early.
Every project has a fixed price, agreed in writing after a short conversation about your needs. There is no hourly billing, so the price you accept is the price you pay.
A deposit secures your start date, and the balance is paid at milestones set out in your proposal.
Yes. We work online, so we can work with you wherever your business is based.
You do. Once the project is paid in full, the website, brand files, photographs and documents we made for you are yours to use.
Yes. We can refresh an existing website, brand or plan instead of starting from nothing, and we will tell you honestly which approach gives better value.
No. We start from where your team is today and explain everything in plain language, using your own work as the examples.
Start a project
Tell us a little about your business, what you would like done and your timeline. We will reply with next steps and, where it fits, a written proposal.