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“I want to do this myself.”
Get practical lessons, a place to build, and a next step you can actually follow. Learn what to give AI, what to check, and what stays yours to decide.
Explore learningA launch plan. A useful digital product. A shop, newsletter, or content process you can make your own. Start with one piece of your business and learn how to put it together.

Two ways to get there
A free place to start
Put the useful context in one place: what matters, what you’re working on, and the instructions you want AI to follow.
Get the free resourceGet practical lessons, a place to build, and a next step you can actually follow. Learn what to give AI, what to check, and what stays yours to decide.
Explore the membership ↗Work with Belles on your brand, website, marketing, or AI workflows. We’ll agree on the work, the price, and who owns what before the build begins.

Give AI the Backstory helps you put the useful context in one place: what matters, what you’re working on, and the instructions you want it to follow.
Give your AI tools the design rules for the brand you already have.
$497
See the scope ↗Find your position, shape your voice, and build a complete visual identity.
$1,997
See the scope ↗Bring your brand into a focused website with a clear next step.
From $2,997
See the scope ↗Develop your brand and website together, from the first decisions through the build.
From $4,994
See the scope ↗Three hours of private, practical help with your tools and your project.
$997 · Three sessions of one hour
See the scope ↗Keep connected offers and customer journeys working from the same brand decisions.
Custom pricing
See the scope ↗Connect the brand across your teams, audiences, websites, and systems.
Custom pricing
See the scope ↗Put your brand to work in content, campaigns, CRM, and recurring workflows.
Custom pricing
See the scope ↗For your first idea, your next offer, or the work you’re ready to try doing differently. Founders, small businesses, and curious beginners are welcome. Learn inside one Belles workspace, with Learning and Brand Studio together.
The Belles membership / Monthly
per month
Both plans include the same library and monthly sessions.
Explore Learning ↗The Belles membership / Annual
per year, save $117
Compared with twelve monthly payments. Private AI Training and implementation services are priced separately.
Explore Learning ↗
I learned storytelling at Reuters, LIFE, and The Daily Beast, then took that thinking into brand strategy, early-stage building at Bev, and marketing and technology in healthcare.
Belles brings those experiences together: clear positioning, practical teaching, and the systems that help a good idea become something people can use and recognize.
She helped build Bev in its early days. Backed by Founders Fund, the brand went on to achieve nationwide direct-to-consumer and grocery distribution and was later acquired by E&J Gallo.
Different industries, same lesson: a good idea is not enough. The strategy has to survive the handoff to people, content, software, and every decision that follows.
That is the thinking behind Belles. Lily turns what a company should be known for into a brand system its team can actually use and its buyers can recognize. Her work is backed by education at UNC Chapel Hill and Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.
Lily and her husband, William, are raising two daughters alongside two yellow Labs, Lucy and Charlie, and Linus, an orange Scottish Fold. The pets are named for Peanuts characters, a small nod to Lily’s mom, who loved Snoopy and lost her battle with ALS.
At home, William plays everything from Bach to Josh Ritter, John Mayer, and Taylor Swift on guitar while the girls dance around the house. Lily is grateful for it every day.
Keep the brand you have. Give your AI tools clear visual instructions.
$497Explore Agentic Design FileGet the positioning, voice, and visual identity working together.
$1,997Explore Brand FoundationTurn an existing brand into a focused website with a useful next step.
From $2,997Explore Website BuildBuild the brand and website as one connected project.
From $4,994Explore Brand Foundation + WebsiteThree private sessions shaped around your level, tools, and project.
$997Explore AI TrainingCoordinate research, content, lead follow up, and recurring work around your business.
Custom pricing after scopingExplore Agentic OSBring connected offers and customer journeys into one coherent brand.
Custom pricingExplore Brand Layer BuildAlign a more complex business across teams, audiences, and systems.
Custom pricingExplore Studio InfrastructureKeep content, campaigns, CRM, and marketing workflows moving.
Custom pricingExplore Ongoing Marketing SupportA few useful answers