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BBS Law, a reputable legal firm with offices in Manchester and London, has a long-standing reputation for its exceptional expertise in commercial and property law. As the firm experienced rapid growth and expanded its team to nearly 70 professionals, it became crucial to overhaul its brand and digital presence to reflect its evolving ethos and establish a cohesive image. The challenge for BBS Law was to undergo a comprehensive brand and website transformation.

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Brand Strategists Are More Essential Than Ever in the Age of AI

Brand Strategist

Let’s get one thing clear: AI isn’t coming. It’s already here. It’s writing copy, generating images, building websites, remixing data into “insights,” and powering a new wave of tools that make it easier than ever for anyone to create something that is good-enough.

 

But here’s the catch: good-enough isn’t necessarily good.

 

We’re entering a strange new phase of the internet. The creative playing field is being flattened not by vision or skill, but by access. Everyone suddenly has the same toolbox and the route to entry has been reduced. The gatekeepers are gone. Which sounds like a revolution, until you realise it could also create a tidal wave of sameness. Brands are in danger of blending together in a blur of generated content and generic tone.

 

That’s where brand strategists matter more than ever.

 

Not because we’re anti-AI. Quite the opposite, we welcome it. But because tools don’t build brands. People do. Strategy does. Clarity does.

 

AI can riff endlessly. It can make 100 headlines in 10 seconds. It can make logos, tweak colours, simulate personas, and analyse engagement. But what it can’t do is see the invisible threads that pull a business, a culture, a consumer, and an idea into a brand.

 

That’s the strategist’s job.

 

We aren’t just swimming in data. We make meaning from it. We don’t just describe what a brand does. We help define why it matters. We spot the tension. We articulate the edges. We make decisions. Bold ones. That’s not something you can prompt into existence. It comes from experience, judgment, taste, and an ongoing conversation with the real world.

 

AI can produce content. But content is not brand. Brand is context. Brand is intention. Brand is what makes the difference between a post and a platform, between a founder story and a movement, between a product launch and cultural relevance.

 

The danger in the AI era isn’t that creativity is dead. It’s that originality is harder to recognise. It’s that bad ideas can be dressed up in decent design and shipped at scale. It’s that creative teams become reactive instead of directive, stuck in a loop of fast iteration instead of breakthrough thinking.

 

A brand strategist breaks the loop.

 

The best strategists aren’t just adding value, they’re multiplying it. They’re the ones asking the uncomfortable questions in the pitch room. The ones saying no to the fourth iteration of the same design. The ones who know that trust isn’t built by looking like every other brand in the feed. It’s built by being unmistakably you.

 

A brand strategist helps teams wield AI with intent instead of overwhelm. They keep work anchored in a real point of view, not just a trending template. The brands that will win in this next-generation won’t be the ones who move fastest. They’ll be the ones who move with purpose.

 

In a world where anyone can create anything, the real question isn’t how you’ll make. It’s why.

 

And that answer won’t come from the machine. It will come from the strategist. Still human. Still necessary. Still irreplaceable.