Your brand won online. Now win the shelf.
Forged from Arnell Group’s iconic creativity, Fahrenheit 212’s innovation methodology and Colgate-Palmolive’s global brand building, we help challenger CPG brands, and the funds behind them, win in store, on Amazon and in AI.
Inside a Category Giant
Challenger & Growth Strategy
Magic you can measure.
Fahrenheit 212 paired money and magic. The job was to bring an idea to life, real enough that people could see it, hold it and react to it. We still work that way. ARA takes it one step further. It turns brand strategy into evidence that people can check.
ARA is Brand Intelligence for the AI Era. It measures how AI reads, describes and recommends a brand, benchmarks it against competitors and builds a 12-month growth roadmap. What AI gets wrong about a brand is a map of where its strategy is unclear.
A prototype only has to survive the room. A brand strategy has to survive the room and the spreadsheet.
ARA is a membership.
Brand Experience
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Category Reinvention.
For brands facing existential challenges, we ask “what do we want/need to be in 10 years, what is our glide path to growth and relevance?”
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Omnichannel Expertise.
Design and deliver holistic brand experience across product, packaging, retail, digital, content
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Team Building.
Building design functions from zero in 12–18 months, in global companies and in growing portfolio brands.
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Turnaround Leadership.
Enterprise-wide transformation experience with C-suite engagement
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Revenue Impact.
Track record of turning strategic design into measurable business results, from Hill’s to Subway.
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Creativity & Craft.
Agency background and multiple startups means faster diagnosis, learning and execution
Speaking
About.
Jared is a brand and design leader who helps challenger brands grow, and helps the funds behind them create value..
As Colgate-Palmolive’s first-ever SVP & Global Head of Design, he turned a packaging function into a global design-led growth engine. He unified the Colgate masterbrand across 120+ markets and revitalized icons like Irish Spring and Softsoap.
Before that he built brands at Arnell Group, FutureBrand and Fahrenheit 212, and founded The Velo Group, ENDVR and gliider.
He believes brand is under-leveraged by private equity. A brand-growth mindset, embedded across a portfolio, is a lever for differentiated value creation.
He founded ARA, Brand Intelligence for the AI Era, to measure how AI reads and recommends brands, and he is now partnering with his first funds to put that lever to work.
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