Selected work

Brand strategy, positioning, messaging, and creative direction for opinionated startups through Off-Menu.

Selected client work by Elan Miller
Client The POV What I did
Cognition Scope Up. In a world that wants you to settle, Devin exists to help you go big.

Cognition is the team behind Devin, an AI software engineer built to help teams take on their biggest projects.

I helped the team crack its brand strategy & messaging, creating an emotional story around what ambitious teams can now attempt with Devin.

Scale AI No Shortcuts. In a market full of snake-oil salesmen promising easy paths, Scale builds trust through radical honesty about what reliable AI takes, then does the hard work that unlocks 100x outcomes.

Following Meta’s investment, Scale needed its brand to reflect the company it was becoming.

I helped reposition it for this new chapter and built a story that could rally the team, attract top talent, and turn its unreasonable commitment to doing the hard work into a defining philosophy.

Rho A Bank That Blows Your Mind. In a world automating everything, Rho makes high-performing founders feel seen in ways they’d never expect from a financial institution.

Rho was getting lost in a sea of fintech competitors all promising modern banking and better support.

I helped reposition the brand around its most defensible advantage, an extraordinary level of human care, and built messaging designed to make Rho the obvious first choice for high-performing founders.

Wischoff Ventures  Shake Sh*t Up. The founders worth betting on are the underdogs audacious enough to challenge the establishment.

After building a fiercely contrarian personal brand and raising a $50M fund as an outsider, Nichole needed Wischoff Ventures to match her fighting energy.

I helped position the firm around founders audacious enough to shake things up, then translated that strategy into a bold, edgy identity with a literally fiery red palette.

Fountain Question Everything. At Fountain, we challenge the protocols, assumptions, and cultural stories that tell people to accept decline, then go off-script in service of the patient.

Fountain pioneered bringing hormone medicine online, but an influx of generic competitors was making the category feel interchangeable.

I helped turn its off-script, patient-first approach into Prime Medicine, a new category and brand story that clarified Fountain’s advantage and supported its premium positioning.

Finder  The World’s First “Not Boring” Comparison Site. Finder makes financial decisions feel approachable, infectious, and even a little outrageous.

Finder wanted to escape the anxious sameness of financial comparison sites and become a brand people might actually enjoy using.

I helped position it as your smartest, most enthusiastic friend when it comes to money, then brought that idea to life across its voice, bubbly-eyed identity, and design system.

Aleo  Zero Knowledge, by Design. Aleo gives developers the privacy-first foundation to build an actually secure internet.

Aleo wanted to turn its zero-knowledge technology into a movement and move the privacy conversation beyond doom, gloom, and damage control.

I helped position it as a lifestyle brand that gives developers an edge, then built a dark, mysterious identity around the badassery of creating an actually secure internet.

Also worked with

A2B Ventures, Acctual, Angstrom, Aurora Innovation, Avalanche, Buzzfeed, Chapter One, Driving Tests, Eclipse, ENS, Founder Shield, Glodust, ILLA, Juniper, Ketone-IQ, LFJ (fka Trader Joe), Marble, Meetperry, Melrose PR, Mento Labs, Onboard, Parcel, Paradigm, Perp City, Primitive, Prodigal, Slingshot AI, Super LA, Superluminal, The Surrogacy Foundation, Twitter, Uniti, Watt, WebAI, and Within.

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