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TWO DIRECTIONS · ROUND 1 · COMPANION TO CONCEPT 01 (/v1) AND CONCEPT 02 (/v2)

Both concepts share one standard: Blackhawk provides sophisticated wealth management built around planning, coordination, and collective expertise. They differ in what they put at the center — the process (Concept 01) or the people (Concept 02). Brand basis: the supplied logo (wide-tracked serif wordmark, sans subline, charcoal on white). No other brand specifications were supplied, so all colors and fonts below are conceptual and should be reconciled with the firm’s slide deck.

Concept 01 — The Coordinated Plan

1. Concept name

The Coordinated Plan. Internal line: Everything connects.

2. Creative idea

A complex financial life has many moving parts; Blackhawk is the team that brings them into alignment — complexity, then coordination, then clarity.

3. Strategic rationale

• Trust: order and precision signal competence before any claim is made.
• Planning expertise: shown through relationships between decisions, not a list of services.
• Collaboration: the quarterback diagram places Blackhawk as the coordinating layer around the client.
• Families and business owners: the problem section pairs a business sale with a concentrated stock position — one example per audience.
• Institutions: an equal pathway in Who We Serve; the architectural tone reads credibly to committees.
• Conversion: Schedule a Consultation in header, hero, and closing band; Learn About Our Approach as the persistent secondary.

4. Emotional experience

Relief, clarity, control. “My financial life may be complex, but these people know how to organize it.”

5. Visual personality

Composition: strong 12-column grid, 64px outer margins, split layouts with a fixed label column. Spacing: generous 96px section rhythm, tight internal leading. Shape: square corners, hairline rules, circles only for nodes. Typography: precise sans with mono labels. Photography: one strong image per major section, never decorative. Graphic language: thin connection lines, rings, layers, numbered indices.

6. Color strategy (conceptual)

Warm off-white ground; charcoal ink derived from the logo as primary text and dark bands; a single desaturated slate blue for connection lines and the one highlighted step. No gold. Dark bands are used twice (model, final CTA) as structural anchors.

7. Typography

Hanken Grotesk for H1 (84px, 500, tight tracking), H2 (48px, 500), body (17–20px, 400) and navigation (16px, 500). IBM Plex Mono for labels, section numbers and diagram nodes (12–13px, tracked caps). Optional: a serif close to the wordmark for pull-quotes only, once the brand deck confirms it.

8. Photography

• Team: advisors in genuine working sessions; documents, laptops, natural light.
• Portraits: consistent shoulders-up, neutral backdrop, 4:5.
• Office/lifestyle: real Blackhawk offices, not staged boardrooms.
• Architecture: restrained details — stairs, windows, structure — echoing the grid.
• Geography: subtle; reserved for location pages.

9. Hero

Headline: Complexity deserves coordination. Support: planning, investment management, and professional collaboration around one goal — better decisions with greater clarity. CTAs: Schedule a Consultation (solid) + Learn About Our Approach (text link). Credibility: Boutique Wealth Management · Affluent Families · Business Owners · Institutions · three offices. Composition: type left, advisor photo right, with a small diagram card (Tax, Investments, Estate, Business, Retirement → Your Plan) overlapping the photo edge.

10. Homepage wireframe

1. Header — logo, five nav items, solid consultation button.
2. Hero — objective: establish identity and trust. As above.
3. The Challenge — “Your financial life doesn’t exist in separate pieces.” Two panels show one decision fanning into five areas. Sets up the need for coordination.
4. The Blackhawk Model — dark band. “One team. One coordinated strategy.” Ring diagram; CTA See How We Work. The central brand idea.
5. Collective Expertise — “Better decisions benefit from more than one perspective.” Five lenses converge into one recommendation. Bridges to intellectual capital.
6. Planning Depth — “Experience where complexity matters.” An index of six situations, each showing what it touches. CTA Explore Our Capabilities.
7. Who We Serve — three equal image cards, families first.
8. Our Approach — five steps on a single line; Coordinate highlighted. CTA Explore Our Approach.
9. Team — “Experience, multiplied.” Four portraits with focus labels. CTA Meet Our Team.
10. Asset Management — “Investments should support the plan.” Goals → Plan → Allocation → Implementation layers. CTA Explore Asset Management.
11. Final CTA — “Bring the pieces together.” Schedule a Consultation + Contact Blackhawk.
12. Footer — three offices, disclosures.

11. Team presentation

Uniform portraits in a four-up grid, name, title, and one area of focus. Strong but secondary to the model; depth lives on the team page.

12. Financial quarterback visualization

Client at the center, Blackhawk as a ring around the client, outside professionals on an outer orbit connected to the ring. Five nodes maximum, no arrows or flows. Reads in one glance; never implies Blackhawk replaces the CPA or attorney.

13. Planning expertise

A single indexed list, not six cards. Each row pairs a situation with the areas it affects (e.g. Concentrated Stock — risk, taxes, income, giving), so capabilities reinforce the coordination story rather than read as products.

14. Who we serve

Three identical cards, same image ratio and copy length. Families listed first to counterbalance the business-owner depth shown elsewhere.

15. Our approach

Understand, Analyze, Coordinate, Implement, Evolve on one continuous rule — the visual reads as a single engagement, with Coordinate marked as the differentiator.

16. Asset management

Positioned beneath the plan: a stepped-layer graphic puts goals and plan above allocation and implementation. Principles listed plainly; no charts.

17. Mobile

Hero stacks headline, support, solid CTA, then secondary link; diagram card moves below the photo. Ring diagram becomes a vertical list with Blackhawk as a bracket. Lenses and approach steps become vertical timelines. Sticky bottom bar keeps Schedule a Consultation reachable.

18. Accessibility

Charcoal on off-white exceeds 12:1; secondary text stays above 7:1; no thin gray type. Diagrams carry text alternatives. Visible focus rings, logical H1–H3 order, descriptive link text, 44px+ targets, reduced-motion respected (no motion required).

19. Compliance

“Better decisions” and “greater clarity” should be reviewed as aspirational, not promised. No performance graphics, AUM, or tax-savings figures. Direct indexing and annuities copy needs suitability qualifiers on interior pages.

20. Key differentiator

The planning model is the hero. Complexity is organized visually; people support the system.

Concept 02 — Collective Intelligence

1. Concept name

Collective Intelligence. Internal line: Good advice is individual. Great advice is collaborative.

2. Creative idea

Blackhawk’s advantage is the thinking of an entire team — presented like a thoughtful editorial publication about judgment.

3. Strategic rationale

• Trust: faces and voice build trust faster than structure.
• Planning expertise: expressed as the questions the team asks, then organized by life stage.
• Collaboration: the team photograph leads; lenses and generational depth reinforce it.
• Families and business owners: three representative scenarios — Family, Executive, Business Owner — at equal weight.
• Institutions: a direct line beneath the scenarios; fuller pathway in navigation.
• Conversion: Schedule a Consultation in header, hero, and close; Meet Our Team as secondary, reflecting the concept’s center.

4. Emotional experience

Trust, respect, personal connection. “These are the people I want thinking about my financial life” — and “I would actually call them.”

5. Visual personality

Composition: editorial — oversized statements, asymmetric splits, full-width imagery. Spacing: larger pauses (112–128px) between ideas. Shape: rules and text do the work; almost no boxes. Typography: light serif display, italic emphasis. Photography: dominant. Graphic language: minimal — a single connected line for the quarterback idea.

6. Color strategy (conceptual)

Warm paper ground and near-black warm charcoal (from the logo) for text and dark sections. One muted clay accent for small labels and the “You” node. Two dark bands (perspectives, asset management) and a dark footer.

7. Typography

Newsreader for H1 (112px, 300), H2 (56–80px, 300), pull-quotes and scenario copy. Hanken Grotesk for body (17–19px), navigation (15px, 500), buttons and H3. IBM Plex Mono sparingly for labels and numbering.

8. Photography

• Team: wide editorial group images with mixed generations, candid rather than posed.
• Portraits: three-quarter length, environmental, varied framing; one featured large.
• Office/lifestyle: real working moments — hands, documents, conversation.
• Architecture: quiet interiors as breathing space.
• Geography: distinctive Scottsdale and Wisconsin imagery in the locations section.

9. Hero

Headline: Expertise works better together. Support: diverse experience, specialized knowledge, and coordinated planning for complex decisions. CTAs: Schedule a Consultation (solid) + Meet Our Team (outline), Explore Our Approach (text link). Credibility: boutique wealth management for affluent families, business owners, and institutions; three offices. Composition: centered logo masthead, large serif headline, full-width team photograph.

10. Homepage wireframe

1. Masthead header — nav split around a centered logo; consultation button right.
2. Hero — as above.
3. Introduction — “Wealth management is ultimately a judgment business.” Software / markets / products versus experience, context, creativity, coordination, judgment.
4. Different perspectives — dark band; six areas of thinking, each with team photography and the question it asks.
5. Generational depth — paired portraits; benefit of the combination.
6. Who we help — three labeled representative scenarios; institutions line.
7. Planning depth — Build, Protect, Transition, Invest, Retire, with two capabilities each.
8. Approach — “Advice starts with understanding.” Five questions. CTA Learn About Our Approach.
9. Financial quarterback — “Your advisors should be talking to each other.” Blackhawk — CPA — Attorney — You.
10. Team feature — large portrait, placeholder quote, four further advisors. CTA Meet the Blackhawk Team.
11. Asset management — “Thoughtful planning requires thoughtful investing.” Six principles.
12. Locations — “Local relationships. Broad perspective.” Three offices.
13. Final CTA — “Start with a conversation.”

11. Team presentation

Dominant: the team appears in the hero, the perspectives band, generational depth, and a featured-advisor module. Every quote must come from the advisor and be compliance-reviewed; the concept uses a clearly labeled placeholder.

12. Financial quarterback visualization

Deliberately later and simpler than Concept 01: one horizontal line of four parties, the client highlighted. On mobile it becomes a vertical line.

13. Planning expertise

Capabilities sit inside a five-stage framework so a visitor finds their moment (e.g. Transition) rather than browsing products.

14. Who we serve

Scenario narratives with equal length and weight; two personal, one business, making families visibly central. Labeled as representative examples, not clients.

15. Our approach

Framed as listening: five questions in large serif type. The formal process steps are summarized in one line and detailed on the approach page.

16. Asset management

“An expression of the plan.” Editorial principles (philosophy, strategy, tax considerations, risk, implementation, discipline) in plain language; no charts.

17. Mobile

Headline scales to ~48px; logo left with menu and a persistent consultation button. Perspectives become a swipeable row or single column. Paired portraits stack. Scenario columns become sequential blocks.

18. Accessibility

Light serif only at display sizes (48px+); all body copy in the sans at 17px+. Dark-band text stays above 7:1. Italic emphasis never carries meaning alone. Descriptive image alt text for every team photo.

19. Compliance

Advisor quotes and any client-facing scenarios need review; scenarios must remain labeled as hypothetical. Avoid implying credentials in the six areas of thinking. “Judgment” claims should not imply superior outcomes.

20. Key differentiator

The people are the hero. Complexity is explained narratively; the process supports the team.

Strategic comparison

The tradeoff

The Coordinated Plan makes Blackhawk’s method legible in seconds and scales well to interior pages, SEO content, and institutional audiences. It depends less on photography, so it can launch before a full shoot — but it risks feeling systematic if the human imagery is weak.

Collective Intelligence builds a warmer, more personal connection and is harder for competitors to imitate, because the asset is the team itself. It depends heavily on an excellent photo shoot and on advisors willing to contribute their own voice; without both, it loses its power.

In short: choose the method as the promise, or the people as the promise. Either can borrow from the other — Concept 01’s ring diagram can serve Concept 02’s approach page, and Concept 02’s perspectives band can humanize Concept 01.