Small steps, big impact:

quick projects for real progress.

Sometimes you just need a clear place to start. These short, focused engagements are designed to deliver quick wins and immediate clarity—helping you tackle pressing challenges without overcommitting time or budget. Whether it’s crafting a pitch deck, mapping a process, or aligning your story, these offerings set the foundation for smarter decisions and better outcomes. Let’s get things moving.

Pitch Deck Quick-Start

Your pitch deck isn’t just slides—it’s your story, your credibility, and the key to unlocking opportunities to grow and scale.

This engagement helps you craft a clear, compelling pitch deck that gets customers, stakeholders, or investors aligned and excited. Thoughtful strategy and design come together to tell your story, showcase your value, and inspire confidence in your vision.

Timeline: two weeks
Flat fee: $6,500

Walk into the room with clarity, confidence, and a deck that speaks for itself.

What's included:

Storytelling strategy

A collaborative session to refine your story, clarify your key points, and make sure your narrative aligns with your goals.

Deck design

A professionally designed 12–15 slide deck that’s engaging, visually cohesive, and tailored to your audience.

Visualizations

Up to three custom illustrations to simplify complex ideas, highlight key data, or make abstract concepts easier to understand and remember.

Process Mapping Quick-Start

Overwhelmed by messy workflows or misaligned services? Let’s map it out together.

This collaborative, visual process helps you identify inefficiencies, pain points, and opportunities for improvement. The real value comes from going through the process itself: by stepping back and mapping out a single workflow or service, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of what’s working, what’s not, and where to focus next.

Timeline: two weeks
Flat fee: $3,500

Visualize your process, identify pain points, and unlock opportunities.

What's included:

Collaborative working session

A one-day session to map out a current workflow or service. We’ll identify bottlenecks, redundancies, and areas causing frustration or delays.

Process mapping

I’ll synthesize our findings into a clear, professional process map that visually represents your current workflow, complete with annotations that highlight pain points and opportunities—serving as a clear roadmap for action.

Investor One-Sheet Quick-Start

Struggling to get investors to see your potential? Let’s craft a one-sheet that makes your startup impossible to ignore.

This engagement gives you a clear, professional investor snapshot—designed to grab attention, communicate your story, and spark interest. A small investment that can open big doors.

Timeline: one week
Flat fee: $2,500

Make your startup stand out in a crowded funding market.

What's included:

Storytelling strategy

A collaborative session to define your narrative. Together, we’ll pinpoint the problem you solve, your market opportunity, and the key factors investors care about, giving them a clear reason to say “yes.”

Expert design

A polished, impactful one-page PDF that presents your story with clarity and precision.

Visualizations

Custom illustrations to bring key data, milestones, or projections to life—so your message is easy to understand and remember.

Need more than a quick win? Let’s tackle what’s holding you back and get you moving forward.

Real clients. Real clarity.

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TLDR; SARA IS THE BEST.
Sara is a delight to work with! She brings rigor without ego to the work, which makes her a great thought partner when tackling complex challenges and themes. In practice, this means that she listens intently for sound reasoning in the interest of excavating true user-centered insight. She helps clarify thought processes that are otherwise easy to get lost in, is a deft collaborator, and balances being flexible and responsive with ensuring that project work meets requirements of timeliness and quality. I highly recommend Sara as a thought partner and communication designer for her ability to identify the right problems to solve in the most efficient way, her flexible approach, openness as a collaborator, and the quality of her work product.

Jenn Yoo
Principal
Inventional

Sara was an amazing talent to add to any project we had. Whether it was help in early thinking and thought starters, or pulling together the final graphics and presentation, she allowed each project to be successful and have the polished material we needed. Sara is extremely talented at taking all the different pieces of information given to her and crafting an eloquent and strategic message that was exactly what I was trying to deliver.

Megan Vollink
Manager, New Business Innovation
Steelcase

Sara engages deeply with the materials throughout the development process, asks thoughtful questions to clarify the content, and creates visuals that bring abstract concepts to life. Sara’s partnership has been important for the thought leadership and research work my team does.

Ivy K. Lau
Global Public Policy and Research, Government Relations
PayPal

We’ve worked with Sara for several years, and she never disappoints! She helped us turn an outdated, information-rich pitch deck into a fun and persuasive story. I appreciated her curious and thoughtful approach, pushing to understand the market and our business to create an honest and compelling pitch. She makes it look easy, and she’s a pleasure to work with.

Ray Sayers
President
Thoroughbred Fulfillment

After working with Sara in a previous role with a former company, I knew she was the perfect partner for this project. We needed someone who could join us in creating the foundation for our brand and determine a clear direction for how to leverage our look and feel moving forward. She was a seamless part of our team and was a joy to work with. Today, it’s such a delight to see the brand guide come alive in everything we do.

Nichole Kladder
FVP | Chief Marketing Officer
Mercantile Bank

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