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Six fixed-scope behavioral systems engagements for product and business leaders.

// 01 Overview

Six ways to close the gap between intent and behavior.

Pierce/Co. is a behavioral systems consultancy. We help product and business leaders design the systems that shape how customers decide, act, and stay. Our work spans six services — each one a fixed-scope engagement, priced upfront, built to ship something durable.

Every Pierce/Co. engagement starts with the same question: what behavior are you trying to produce, and what's currently in the way? From there, the right service depends on where the gap is — in how buyers perceive you, how your product guides them, how your team is organized to deliver, or how your design system reinforces (or undermines) the experience.

If you're not sure which service fits, the Behavioral Audit is usually the right starting point. It's the diagnostic engagement that surfaces which of the other services will produce the most leverage for your business.

Behavioral Audit

A four-week diagnostic that scores your business on nine behavioral levers driving buyer decisions.

The Behavioral Audit is Pierce/Co.'s flagship engagement, delivered through our productized platform, ENARGEA. We evaluate how growth-stage SaaS companies are perceived by their buyers — across nine categories spanning clarity, credibility, perceived value, and decision friction — and produce an interactive scorecard with prioritized recommendations.

This is the right starting point for most teams. It identifies which behavioral systems are working, which are leaking revenue, and where the highest-leverage interventions live.

Who this is for

Product, growth, and marketing leaders at B2B SaaS and Retail companies. Other verticals considered case-by-case as our evidence base expands.

Product & Growth Strategy

Identify the behavioral levers that move your core metrics — acquisition, activation, retention, monetization — so growth becomes structural rather than tactical.

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Most growth work optimizes individual surfaces: a landing page, an onboarding flow, a pricing tier. We work one level up. We map how behavioral decisions chain across the funnel, identify where the system is producing the wrong outcomes, and design the interventions that change behavior at the structural level.

The output is a growth strategy your team can execute against — not a slide deck of recommendations, but a sequenced plan with clear behavioral hypotheses, success metrics, and implementation guidance.

Who this is for

Product and growth leaders who've run the standard playbooks (A/B tests, funnel optimization, pricing experiments) and hit diminishing returns. Teams that need to step back and rethink the system, not just tune it.

Brand & Perceived Value Design

Align what your brand promises with what your product delivers, so customers experience the value you intend.

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When the brand and the product send different signals, customers do the math and conclude you're overpriced. Brand & Perceived Value Design is the work of closing that gap — making sure the messaging, positioning, pricing, and product experience all reinforce the same perception.

This is not a rebrand. It's a systems engagement focused on the specific moments where perceived value is being formed or eroded, and the changes needed to make those moments land the way you want.

Who this is for

Companies whose pricing is under pressure, whose positioning feels generic, or whose brand has drifted from the actual product experience. Common trigger: a competitor with a weaker product is winning deals on perceived value.

Product & Experience Design

Architect products and services that guide the right behaviors, reduce friction, and make value obvious.

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This is hands-on product design work, applied through a behavioral lens. We design flows, interfaces, and interactions that make the desired user behavior the path of least resistance — and that make the value of taking that path immediately legible.

Engagements typically focus on specific product surfaces where behavior matters most: onboarding, key activation moments, upgrade flows, retention triggers. We work alongside your existing design and engineering teams or independently, depending on what you need.

Who this is for

Product teams shipping new surfaces or redesigning critical flows, where the cost of getting the behavioral design wrong is high. Especially relevant for products with complex onboarding or non-obvious value props.

Behavior-Focused Workshops

Align your team around shared behavioral outcomes so cross-functional work stops fragmenting.

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When product, growth, design, and leadership are optimizing for different metrics, the customer experience fragments — even if every team is doing good work in isolation. Our workshops give cross-functional teams a shared framework for thinking about behavior, a common vocabulary for talking about it, and a working session to align incentives and KPIs around the outcomes that actually matter.

Workshops run one to three days, on-site or remote, and produce concrete artifacts: aligned KPIs, a behavioral systems map, and a working agreement for how the team will collaborate going forward.

Who this is for

Leadership teams that recognize cross-functional misalignment is producing fragmented experiences and want to fix it at the team level, not just the org chart level.

Design Systems & Pattern Libraries

Build the component library, token structure, and documentation your team needs to ship consistently as you scale.

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Design systems are the layer where behavioral consistency either compounds or collapses. We build design systems that give your team a shared language for the product — consistent components, clear rules, and the foundation to move faster as you scale. We work at three levels depending on what you need: a Figma design system, a coded component library, or an integrated Claude Skill that makes your system queryable by AI.

This is one of our most active engagement types and frequently the right next step after a Behavioral Audit surfaces consistency issues across product surfaces.

Who this is for

Early-stage and growth-stage teams that are done duct-taping it together — onboarding their first full-time designer, preparing for a funding round, or tired of inconsistency slowing them down.

// 03 How we work

The same shape, every engagement.

Every Pierce/Co. engagement follows the same shape, regardless of which service.

Scoping conversation
A short call to understand your business, your team, and what success looks like. No prep required — we'll do the homework before we talk.
Fixed scope, fixed price
Once we agree on the engagement, you get a clear scope and a fixed price. No hourly billing, no scope creep surprises. The price is the price.
Senior delivery
Pierce/Co. is led by Jonathan Pierce, a behavioral systems architect with 16 years of experience designing products and systems at Dropbox, Goldman Sachs, Bass Pro Shops, Nestlé Purina, Whirlpool, and Intuit. Every engagement is delivered with senior-level thinking — no junior handoff, no offshore team you didn't hire.
Built to last
We don't ship deliverables that go stale. The work is built to be picked up, used, extended, and maintained by your team after we're gone.
// 04 Frequently asked questions

Questions we get asked.

If you're not sure where the highest-leverage gap is in your business, start with the Behavioral Audit. It's designed as a diagnostic — a four-week engagement that scores your business across nine behavioral levers and identifies which other services (or which internal work) will produce the most impact. If you already know the gap — for example, you need a design system, or your team needs alignment around behavioral outcomes — you can engage directly with the relevant service.
Most Pierce/Co. engagements are fixed-scope project work. We occasionally take on advisory retainers with prior clients where there's a clear ongoing need, but we don't lead with retainers. The fixed-scope model produces better outcomes and clearer accountability for both sides.
Most of our clients are growth-stage SaaS companies, roughly Series A through C, though we've worked with enterprises (Dropbox, Goldman Sachs, Purina) and earlier-stage startups depending on the engagement. The Behavioral Audit and Design Systems engagements are best fit for companies with at least a working product and some customer base. Workshops and strategy engagements can work earlier.
Traditional agencies sell hours and staff up to fill them. Pierce/Co. sells fixed-scope engagements delivered by a senior practitioner with deep behavioral systems expertise. We don't have a junior team, we don't bill hourly, and we don't take on more clients than we can deliver senior attention to. The trade-off is we take fewer engagements per year; the benefit is the work is consistently senior-led and built to last.
Yes. Most of our work is remote, and we've worked with teams across North America, Europe, and Asia. On-site work for workshops or kickoffs is available where it makes sense.
For the Behavioral Audit, the reserve flow lives at enargea.ai. For any other service, email hello@pierceand.co with a short description of what you're trying to figure out. We respond within two business days to schedule a scoping conversation.
// 05 Start a conversation

Not sure which service fits? Start with a conversation.

If you're navigating a behavioral systems challenge and want to explore whether Pierce/Co. is the right fit, the fastest way to start is a short scoping conversation. No prep required, no commitment expected.

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