ABOUT US
Your brand is your competitive advantage. We keep it that way.
Brennan Brand helps founder-led companies that have outgrown word of mouth grow with a clearer brand and sharper marketing. Founded in Silicon Valley in 2010 by Erin Brennan, we've worked through every platform shift since — social, mobile, marketing automation, and now AI. The tools keep changing; your brand is the one advantage they can't copy.
OUR APPROACH
A senior brand and marketing team,
built around your business.
You'll notice this site says "we." That's deliberate, Brennan Brand is Erin Brennan and the team she assembles. Erin leads every engagement and depending on what your project needs, she either brings in a trusted specialists or works alongside the team you already have. Sometimes we build a team for you from scratch. Sometimes we become part of yours.
Either way, everything runs through Erin first. You're never handed off to a junior strategist you've never met. You get senior judgment and one consistent point of view, with exactly as much support as you need.
Most companies are stuck choosing between a freelancer they have to manage, a roster of disconnected consultants, a six-figure agency engagement, or a full-time hire they're not ready for. We built a model that sits in between. Brennan Brand offers a senior team you don't have to manage, sized to exactly what the work requires — no six-figure minimum, no full-time commitment, no junior handoffs. We take your business on as our own and build the right team around it.
Working with Erin Brennan is fast & exciting
Erin gets what you are saying before you even finish saying it, and has already formulated a plan for action. Work with Brennan Brand when you are ready to get things done.
— HEATHER B. | Author & Entrepreneur
WHO WE WORK WITH
You're great at what you do.
We make sure the right people know it.
Where we shine is services: businesses whose value lives in expertise, relationships, and trust, and whose growth depends on making that clear to the right people. From $30M companies to Emmy-nominated documentaries, nonprofits to international campaigns across Europe, our clients span different industries, different stages but all have the same underlying problem: the business got great at what it does, but the brand never caught up.
Startups
Technology, biotech, and other founder-led ventures
Professional & Advisory Firms
Lawyers, accountants, consultants, agencies, private-practice therapists
Experts & Creators
Authors, coaches, speakers, filmmakers
Health & Wellness
Gyms, retreat centers, pediatric day healthcare facilities
Construction
Flooring contractors, waterproofing, painting, general contractors
Nonprofits
Mission-driven organizations
LEAD STRATEGIST & FOUNDER
Meet Erin Brennan
Erin's clients tend to describe her the same way: a translator, a dot-connector, and the term “herding cats” has been used more than once; because she takes the tangle of half-formed ideas in your head and turns it into clear positioning, language, and a clear action plan.
That's part craft and part training. Erin’s background spans brand strategy, marketing systems, linguistics, and user experience/behavioral psychology. When she takes on a new client she absorbs the business so completely she can often describe it better than the people who built it. It's also why she works with only a handful of clients at a time — that kind of attention doesn't scale, and she's not interested in the version of it that does.
Erin founded Brennan Brand in Silicon Valley in 2010 and has built brands through every major platform shift since — social, mobile, marketing automation, and now AI. Nearly two decades in, her core argument has only held up: the tools change constantly, but the clearest brand always wins. She works as a true partner, not an agency you hear from once a month, not a vendor at the end of an email chain. It's one of the reasons why clients across the U.S. and Europe have stayed with her for over a decade.
Some Highlights
Taught digital marketing at General Assembly, one of the most recognized names in tech and digital-skills education.
Has trained and certified in AI since 2022, studying under leading voices in the field.
Placed 2nd in a Silicon Valley startup pitch competition judged by VCs and incubators including Y Combinator, Erin was the only woman to place.
Has spoken on the power of brand at startup incubators across Europe, Asia, and the Bay Area.
A trained linguist, Erin is fluent in Spanish, conversational in Italian, and has a life goal to speak 5 languages fluently.
Outside Brennan Brand, Erin is a speaker and documentary filmmaker whose work explores how people navigate uncertainty. When she's not working, she's usually walking her dogs, on a beach volleyball court, or traveling somewhere new (having spent years living and working abroad). More about Erin →
Where we’re located
San Francisco, CA
Los Angeles, CA
