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Zack Chmeis

Strategist and Technologist

Brand strategist, designer and creative producer. For more than fifteen years I have moved across the world, working with Chris Do of The Futur, Eli Altman of A Hundred Monkeys and Marty Neumeier of Liquid Agency.

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Portrait of Zack Chmeis

Called in when the problem has no name yet.

More than 25 companies have brought me in to look at their brand the way they no longer could: to advise their leadership, to question the assumptions everyone else had stopped questioning, and to leave behind a way of thinking their teams still work from today.

The frameworks that came out of that work are now used by agencies and companies all over the world. I tend to arrive before the brief exists, and I stay until the problem has a structure, a direction and a decision behind it.

Selected work and credits.

  1. 01 Credited Scramble By Marty Neumeier Book
  2. 02 Credited Run Studio Run By Eli Altman of A Hundred Monkeys. Thanked for help with the website. Book
  3. 03 Creative producer and head strategist Alt Creative Creative studio working in film, with Ash Thorp Film
  4. 04 Community manager The Futur With Chris Do Community
  5. 05 Interviewed The Carton by Eggs Published on Medium Read
  6. 06 Author Pre-Align A guide for agencies and strategists Look inside

My strategies and frameworks have been used by agencies whose clients include

  • DreamWorks
  • Snapchat
  • Nike
  • Apple
  • Facebook
  • Microsoft
  • Xbox
  • Ubisoft

Fifteen places, five continents.

From Canada to Australia, I have been brought in to consult on projects in fifteen places across five continents, many of them large or mega scale.

Canada USA London Denmark Sweden Latvia Germany Switzerland Ukraine Turkey Lebanon Jordan UAE Morocco Australia

A guide to selling strategy.

Most strategy is lost before it is presented, in the moment a client quietly files it under cost. Pre-Align is the method I wrote to win that moment: a structured way for agencies and strategists to align a client on what strategy is worth before a single proposal is opened.

$500K+

Signed in new client work in under sixty days, after an agency rebuilt its pitch around Pre-Align.

Their clients include Red Bull, Warner Bros., UC Berkeley

Two printed copies of the Pre-Align guide
Open spreads from the Pre-Align guide
The Pre-Align guide on a yellow surface

I work with creators and influencers.

You have spent years earning an audience that trusts you. I work with a small number of creators and influencers to turn that trust into something that lasts: we work out what your audience actually wants from you, and then I design it, build it, launch it and run it with you, as a digital product of your own.

Built, launched and managed on

Strategy

  • An idea shaped around what your audience already asks you for
  • Positioning, pricing and the offer, worked out with you
  • A clear plan from first draft to launch day

Design and build

  • The whole product designed and built, start to finish
  • All the materials and information, written and produced
  • Brand, covers and visuals made to match you

Launch

  • Your store set up on Whop, with checkout and member access
  • A sales page, written and designed
  • Launch posts, stories and captions, ready to publish

After launch

  • Everything managed on Whop, so you never touch the tech
  • Updates and support for your buyers
  • Clear numbers on how it sells

Apply as a creator

Every collaboration starts with an application. My team replies to every one within two weeks.

Want to work together?

Thank you for thinking of me. Unfortunately my time is fully booked with current projects, so I cannot take on anything new right now. Join the waiting list and I will reach out personally as soon as a place opens.