Maquette Works · Brand Strategy & Content for Maker-Founders

Your work is exceptional. Let's make it land

I help founder-led brands in heritage, built environment, and artisan trades structure their story so the depth that's already there starts doing the work. Thirty years across publishing, media, hospitality, and built environment. I see brands differently because of that range.

Gaby Martin
30 Years |
Publishing & Media
Squarespace |
Circle Member
Systems |
Architect
London |
International Reach

Your story, and your voice, surfaced by structure

01

Brand Strategy

Many founder-led brands have the substance but not the structure. I find what's different about your work and build a framework that makes it visible. The right people, in the right order.

02

Content Architecture

Your website is your billboard. I build content that compounds: editorial depth, search visibility, and a clear story that does the selling so you don't have to.

03

Website Design & Build

Business-first websites built around what your business needs, not a template, or what suits a typical agency's portfolio. Accessible, search-ready, and designed to convert visitors into enquiries, not vanity showcases.

04

Ongoing Direction

A website launch is the start, not the finish. I help founders keep building. Editorial plans, content updates, and the confidence to run it themselves.

L.A.N.D. How exceptional work lands

L

Listen

Before anything gets built

I start by understanding your work, your world, and what you're actually trying to say. Not a brief-filling exercise. A real conversation about what makes your business different and who needs to hear it.

A

Audit

See your brand the way a visitor does

Using the Hero's Map™ Method, I map what's working and what isn't. An honest reading of what your online presence is actually saying about you. Not a checklist, but a strategic eye on the gap between your substance and your visibility.

N

Narrate

Your voice, structured for the page

This is where your story takes shape. I build the content architecture and find the language that sounds like you. A narrative that guides visitors from curiosity to enquiry, without losing what makes you, you.

D

Deliver

A website that works as hard as you do

Strategy becomes a live site. Built, tested, search-ready, and designed to grow over time. Plus the framework and confidence to keep building on it yourself.

Systemised expertise, not a wing and a prayer

MVP

ThoughtForge™

From insight to published authority

Complete thought leadership platform: assess readiness, capture expertise, preserve authentic voice, publish across formats. Four-tier product ladder from initial assessment to full book and audio ecosystem.

Launch Ready

The Hero's Map™

Strategic website wayfinding

Website assessment methodology positioning the consultant as cartographer, not builder. Three tailored reports from one assessment. Focuses on what your website should do before any technical debate.

Validation

Wayfinding Language™

Content that guides, not just informs

Seven-principle content transformation framework. Replaces "copywriting" with strategic communication designed for web, search, and AI readability.

Live

L.A.N.D.™

Listen · Audit · Narrate · Deliver

The full client process from first conversation to live site. A four-stage framework that ensures nothing gets built until it's understood, audited, and shaped around your voice.

Methodology in action

Hero's Map™ Method Wayfinding Language™ Content Framework

La Flânerie

Southern France · Boutique Hospitality

A boutique holiday house in southern France, drawing a select clientele from greyer cities. This is where every framework I use was built and tested, because it was my own problem first. A property with real character and strong word-of-mouth, but a website that didn't reflect either. We rebuilt the content architecture, codified the voice, and structured an SEO approach that removed OTA dependency entirely.

90%+ Direct Bookings
Page 1 Google Rankings
0% OTA Dependency
80% Admin Reduced

Heritage Estates · Architecture & Built Environment · Artisan Trades · Hospitality · Wine & Food · Publishing · Thought Leaders

The sector varies. The pattern doesn't: real substance, a website that doesn't show it, and a founder who knows something's off but can't see what because they're too close to it.

Tell me about your work

If your own work is exceptional but your systems are still in your head - I build complete ecosystems: business-first websites, frameworks, workflows, documentation, and training.

Bring It to Life

or email Gaby

Based in London · Global Reach · Always Responsive

When I'm not pushing pixels and plotting your way: gastronome, grower, heritage enthusiast, and keen advocate for each.