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Connota — the meaning engine for brands

See what your campaign really says.

Semiotics-driven analysis for brands and agencies, in any category.

AI makes content infinite.
That makes meaning the scarce resource.

The insight behind Connota, from the Media Innovation research, 2022–2025
The problem

Every review meeting runs on instinct

Usually good instinct. What’s missing is the why.

The brand manager

Has to justify the call

Approves the campaign, and then has to explain to leadership why.

The agency

Ends up defending

Presents strong work, until someone says it “doesn’t feel right”.

The volume

Outgrows the review

More assets and variants than ever. The time to review them properly isn’t growing with it.

How it works

Teach it your brand once. Then test every campaign.

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Upload your assets with the brief they must deliver on. Connota reads them against brief, brand, channel and culture, and returns scored, evidence-anchored findings, each one pinned to the exact spot on the asset. Here is what that looks like.

Connota reads an asset
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Why the sector matters

Every category has its codes. The question is whether you use them or hide in them.

Category codes

What the sector expects

Brand codes

What only you own

The gap

Where you disappear

Connota reads both, and shows you exactly where the balance tips.

Anatomy of a finding

Evidence down to the pixel, with an action attached

Evidence

Measured

The cap’s teal measures absent on the front panel: nearest hue 60° away from the registered #00CCCC.

Finding

Named

The brand’s most distinctive colour is missing at the garment’s highest-visibility point.

Why it matters

Explained

Colour is a recognition trigger; its absence weakens attribution exactly where most people look first.

Action

Fixed

Specify the Pantone equivalent for the embroidery thread and request a strike-off before the production run.

The AI writes the findings. Fixed rules calculate the score.

Insights that travel

One analysis. Everyone argues from the same evidence.

For leadership

Management summary

The verdict and the priority actions, at a glance.

For the makers

Designer view

Every finding pinned to the exact spot it’s about.

For everyone

Share link and Slack

One revocable link, no account needed to view. Or straight into Slack.

Who it is for

Who feels the difference

Brand teams

The brand manager

Your judgment made the call. The report backs it up, every finding traced to evidence.

Agencies and studios

The agency

You know the work is strong before you walk in. The conversation starts from evidence, not defence.

No strategist on staff

The founder

The review a seasoned strategist would give, measured against your own brand.

The builder

Nick Grosveld

Fourteen years of brand building, for clients including Philips, NXP and Caterpillar, and seven and a half years leading brand and digital experience at CZ and Just. Brought AI into CZ’s workflows well before it went mainstream, and is now building the tool he wished he’d had for years.

Early access · small pre-test group

See it on your own work.
Shall we?

Fictional brands, AI-generated images. Demo analyses are illustrative, not actual Connota output.
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