A branding agency in Manchester that also builds the product.
Most Manchester agencies hand you a logo and a PDF. We take the same thinking through to the website, the app and the systems behind them, so what launches feels like one considered thing.
Senso started in Manchester in 2022 and the studio still works from here. We are a branding agency in the proper sense of the word. Positioning, naming, identity and guidelines. But we are also a product studio, which means the brand we design is the brand you ship. UK founders come to us when the identity and the product need to be decided together rather than stitched after the fact.
What a branding agency should actually do
A brand is a set of decisions, not a folder of assets. The name, the position, the voice, the identity and the way the product behaves all need to agree with each other. Our Manchester team runs that whole chain. We start with research and positioning, design the visual and verbal identity as a system, then carry it into the interfaces people actually touch. That last step is where most agency work falls apart, because the agency leaves before the build starts. We stay.
Brand and product, decided together
When the identity is designed in isolation, the product team spends the next year translating it. Buttons that fight the type scale. Colours that fail accessibility. A voice that works on a billboard and nowhere else. Because our designers and engineers sit in the same studio, the identity is tested against real screens from the first week. The result is a brand that survives contact with the product, and a product that feels like the brand.
Work you can check
We rebuilt the brand and trading platform experience for X Rate Capital, a UK foreign exchange business. We took Feynic Technology in Glasgow from an engineering firm with no digital presence to a positioned brand with a site that wins them work. We built REASN, a fashion retail platform, from identity through to storefront. And we built Signet, our own e-signing product, end to end, which is the strongest proof we can offer that we ship what we design.
Built in Manchester, working anywhere
The studio is Manchester born and most of our UK client base is northern, but the work travels. We run a second studio in Dubai and partner with teams across Europe and the United States. For UK clients that means senior people in your timezone, in person when it matters, without the London agency premium attached to the same thinking.
How an engagement runs
Most projects begin with a short strategy sprint. Two to three weeks of research, positioning and creative direction that ends with a clear recommendation, not a mood board. From there we move into identity, then product design and build, with one team across all of it. Timelines are honest, the founders stay close to the work, and you will never be handed off to a delivery team you have not met.
Selected Work
Our Work
What we do
Before anything is designed, it's decided. Positioning, research and brand architecture that give every decision after it a direction.
When the experience is the product. UX and UI for websites, platforms and apps, researched, prototyped and tested for the people who'll use them.
From first wireframe to shipped product. Websites, apps and design systems built to be maintained, measured and grown.
The operational layer behind the brand. CRM, automation and integrations that keep growing teams fast and organised.
Brand
- Brand Identity
- Brand Strategy
- Brand Guidelines
- Market Research
- Commercial Modelling
Design
- UX/UI Design
- Web Design
- App Design
- Design Systems
- Prototyping
Product
- Website Development
- App Development
- E-commerce Development
- CMS Development
- Product Management
Systems
- Internal Tooling
- CRM Implementation
- Workflow Automation
- System Integration
- Data & Reporting
Our Model
- 40+ COMPANIES PARTNERED
- 2 REGIONS, MCR · DXB
- EST. 2022
Frequently asked questions
Identity projects with us typically start around five thousand pounds, and full brand plus product engagements run from fifteen thousand upwards depending on scope. We price by deliverable rather than by day, so you know the number before we start.
No. Manchester is home and we love working face to face, but our clients are spread across the UK, Europe, the US and the Middle East. Distance has never decided the quality of an engagement.
We build what we design. Most agencies stop at guidelines and hand the product to someone else. Our identity work is carried through to the website, the app and the operational systems by the same team, so nothing is lost in translation.
A focused identity project runs six to eight weeks. Brand plus website is usually ten to fourteen. Full brand and product builds depend on the product, and we will give you an honest timeline before anything is signed.
Yes, and it usually goes well. We slot in as the brand and product layer while your team keeps ownership of day to day delivery. Everything we make is documented and handed over so your people can run with it.
We do, and for the right founders we go further than a normal agency. Our ventures model trades part of the fee for equity or revenue share when we believe in what is being built.