Senior creative judgment, on demand

Senior creatives,

Applied to your work.

A marketplace where senior creatives give feedback, make changes or redo your brand communication or marketing task.

Vetted senior creatives. 72 hour turnaround. You set the price. Pay only when you approve.

From raw to remarkable

You bring the brief. We bring the judgment.

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Step 01

Brief

Your raw material. The brief, the AI draft, the rough idea. A starting point, not the answer.

Step 02

Judgment

A senior creative applies taste, reasoning, and experience. The good parts kept, the rest reworked.

Step 03

Deliverable

Sharp, distinctive, structured work — with the reasoning behind every decision.

Trusted by discerning founders & senior marketers from:

HighbridgeEffectuateGoods Copenhagen

The problem

Every brand can now use AI to generate strategy, copy, and design in seconds. Most of it is forgotten as quickly as it’s created.

Applied Taste connects founders and marketers with senior creatives who know the difference between brand work that’s technically correct and unmistakably right.

The three modes

Validate

Take your existing concept, copy, or campaign and get a senior creative verdict: approved, rejected, or redirected. With clear reasoning behind every call.

Elevate

Move your AI-generated work from almost there to actually good. Inline edits, accepted or rejected, from someone who knows the difference.

Reimagine

A senior creative in the loop with you, async. Sparring on half-formed ideas, pushback before you commit to a direction, the question you didn't think to ask. Taste applied while the work is still moving — not a verdict at the finish line.

What we can help with

From naming to campaign concepts.

Post a task - include your initial ideas or work you’ve already generated - and we’ll match it with a senior creative.

Pricing by mode

Brand Naming

Name candidates with rationale, risk notes, and a recommended shortlist.

Elevate · €520

Brand Positioning

A sharp positioning statement and the strategic logic that holds it up.

Elevate · €460

Mission, Vision & Belief

Structured foundations document. The words your team actually uses.

Elevate · €340

Brand Voice & Tone

Voice principles with do/don't examples your writers can apply tomorrow.

Elevate · €360

Brand Manifesto

The stake in the ground. A manifesto with beliefs unpacked.

Elevate · €420

Messaging Framework

Audience-by-audience messaging matrix with proof points and traps to avoid.

Elevate · €440

Value Proposition

One sentence that earns its place, plus the alternatives that didn't.

Elevate · €300

How it works

Brief in. Judgment out. Three steps.

Step 01

Post your task

Choose a task type, describe what you need, set your price. Your Brand DNA pre-loads the brief so the creative already knows your voice, audience, and positioning.

New brief

Tagline for our Series A launch.

TypeTagline
Budget€340
Brand DNAAttached
Step 02

A screened creative picks it up

Individually approved for your specific task type. Work starts within 72 hours. No interviews, no proposals, no back-and-forth.

Copywriter

Marcus Chen

Cuts until only the necessary words remain. Then cuts again.

11 yrs exp
Step 03

Approve and release

Receive a structured deliverable with the work, the reasoning behind it, and clear next steps. You only pay when you're satisfied.

02 · Reasoning

Why this direction

Anchored to your audience's hesitation, not their aspiration. The line works in mouth and on page.

The creatives

Senior. Screened. Sharp.

Every creative on Applied Taste has built brands, shipped award-winning campaigns, and made thousands of consequential decisions. Their taste and judgment are the difference between your brand going unnoticed or delivering impact.

8 senior creatives72h median turnaround

Brand Strategist

Aaron Bateman

Helps start-ups build stronger brand foundations. Cuts through noise to find what actually holds.

14 yrs exp

Marketing Strategist

Gus Murray

Connects brand positioning to commercial reality. Strategy that actually drives growth.

15 yrs exp

Copywriter

Marcus Chen

Cuts until only the necessary words remain. Then cuts again.

11 yrs exp

Creative Director

Sofia Andersson

Holds the line between what looks good and what actually works.

18 yrs exp

Art Director

James Okafor

Makes visual systems that hold up at scale. No mood boards, no fluff.

9 yrs exp

Brand Strategist

Ava Moretti

Turns founder instinct into brand architecture others can build on.

12 yrs exp

Questions

What you might be wondering.

Your brand deserves better than technically correct.

Post your first task and see what senior creative judgment looks like.