Most agencies sell you pieces. Mellström understands and builds systems underneath them, so branding, web, marketing and spatial experience actually pull in the same direction.
Caterpillar
Email + Paid Media + Content
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Work For
01 / The Problem
Sometimes you don't need more.
You need to know what's working, what's holding you back, and what needs to happen next.
Adding more marketing to a broken system just makes the noise louder. We diagnose before we build.
02 / What We Do
Brand strategy, positioning, identity, messaging and creative direction that create a clear, credible signal.
This is how Musicology went from concept to franchise model in months.
Decades of experience across web development, ecommerce and informational websites, built as part of the larger system.
Built the same way we build everything else: as infrastructure, not a one-off project.
Authentic video storytelling builds trust, authority and familiarity around brands, founders and organizations.
This is the engine behind Revel Realty's compounding local authority.
Understand demand, create the right signals and build systems that consistently reach the right audience.
This is how Unsocial Club found its winning products before spending on ads to scale them.
Turn brands into places people can walk into, interact with and remember. From early concepts and customer journeys to visualization and production coordination, we connect brand, experience and the teams that bring physical spaces to life.
Moving ideas from concept toward buildable retail and branded environments.
One business.
One connected system.
03 / For Founders
Different stage.
Different problem.
Same fundamentals.
04 / About
Valentin Mellström
Founder & Creative Director
Founder & Creative Director Valentin Mellström built his career inside iconic brands, government and entertainment, including work with Ford and Caterpillar, before bringing that same systems thinking to founders building from zero.
Today, he brings that experience together to build brands, content and marketing systems designed to perform in the real world.
Based in Windermere, Florida
05 / How We Work
We take the time to understand the business, customer and opportunity before committing resources to execution.
Clarity creates confidence.
Confidence creates commitment.
Commitment creates momentum.
06 / Selected Work
LUCK DIDN'T BUILD THIS.
CAT WORKWEAR
Client
CAT Workwear brings one of the world's most recognizable industrial brands into apparel built for people who work for a living.
Developed performance creative across email, paid media and organic content, balancing CAT's established brand identity with product storytelling, promotions and conversion-focused campaigns.
Organic demand → Paid growth
Find the winners. Amplify them.
Client
Unsocial Club is a men's grooming and lifestyle brand built around individuality, humor and a counterpoint to overly polished men's branding.
Rather than fighting for space in crowded barbershops, the strategy targets independent men's retail, gift and craft shops with curated, giftable bundles.
Meta campaigns are used to drive and test bundle demand, while organic Amazon sales reveal which individual products customers naturally choose, allowing proven winners to be amplified instead of relying on assumptions.
LÄNK ACADEMY PLAYER SIGNED TO SC BRAGA
DURING THE BRACARA CUP.
LÄNK FC VILAVERDENSE ESTABLISHED
NEW FACILITIES BUILT IN BRAGA
MORE ACADEMY PLAYERS MOVED INTO PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL
Client
Bracara Cup brought together elite European youth teams including SC Braga, Olympique Marseille, RCD Espanyol, AIK, FC Nordsjælland and Länk FC for an international tournament in Braga, Portugal.
Mellström developed the tournament identity and experience, connecting the competition to the culture, history and mythology of its host city.
0 → 100+ LEADS
BEFORE OPENING.
70 SIGN-UPS
PROGRAMS START AT $300/MO.
Client
Developed for music industry veteran Jeff Hanson, who discovered and managed Creed, Paramore and Sevendust.
Together, we shaped the concept to be scalable while staying deeply rooted in real music-industry mentorship, serious music education and a safe, trusted after-school environment.
Content → Authority
Built to compound.
Client
Revel Realty is a Central Florida real estate company building authority around the people, expertise and communities behind the business.
We developed an ongoing content engine that turns conversations, local knowledge and expertise into consistent long-form and short-form compounding content based on data-driven keyword research.
Additional brand experience
Ford / CAT / Legendary Whitetails / Thorogood
07 / Testimonials
“Valentin not only designed the brand but took ownership of its development, systems design, and scalable strategy, helping us go from concept to a functioning franchise model within months. What struck me was his ability to hold the big picture and the operational detail simultaneously and keep both moving without losing either. He consistently bridges creative vision with business realities.”
Jeff Hanson
Founder & Music Industry Executive, Former Manager: Creed, Paramore, Sevendust
Every quarter without a working system is a quarter competitors close the gap.
Starting something new?
Growing something good?
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+1 321 246 0713 | Windermere, Florida. Or give us a call to get the conversation started.
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