Chris Znerold Product + Brand Systems · AI Design Engineering

People-powered insurance

Creative director for Authentic, 2022 Launched, 2022

Strategy:

Authentic sells captive insurance: business owners own the risk pool instead of renting it. The founder workshop chose 'revolutionary' over 'collective', because the product changes who holds the money.

Design:

A mark of three figures around a common space, seen from above, repeated as a pattern across the stationery. Then the splash site, the risk dashboard and the investor decks.

Leadership:

Stay Gold was agency of record for three months in 2022, and I ran the work as head of brand and product. The site went live with the dashboard and the investor decks behind it.

Authentic sells captive insurance to people who want to own the risk pool rather than rent it.

Product in Hand

The mark is the people.

The mark alone on cream, red. Then the mark tiled into a pattern on a black gift box and a cap. On the dark dashboard, a community pool and a portfolio risk screen.

The pattern-wrapped gift box, open, the mark on the black lid

Product in Life

The pool, on a dashboard.

A business owner joins a pool with people like them and watches it on a dashboard, the community pool and the portfolio risk, rather than waiting for a renewal letter once a year.

The splash site, Hello, we are Authentic, over the community pool and portfolio risk dashboards

Product in Culture

Bought once, resented twelve times.

Insurance is bought once a year and resented twelve times. A brand in that category usually looks like the company holding the money rather than the people in the pool.

The Future State of Embedded Captive Insurance: the pattern and the Authentic lockup on dark
Position:

Head of Brand & Product at Stay Gold

Services:

Brand strategy, identity, UX/UI, investor decks

Partner:

Authentic

Status:

Launched, 2022