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Top 25 Brands consulting firms based in San Francisco, United States
RevenueBase identified 251 brands consulting firms headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 2,991 professional contacts across them, including 840 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers brands consulting firms headquartered in San Francisco, United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 23, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest brands consulting firms based in San Francisco, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 782 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Formerly Essence, we are now EssenceMediacom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 661 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Prophet is the Uncommon Growth Company-accelerating impact for business and marketing leaders through consulting, experience, and creative services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Turner Duckworth are behind the brand identities for some of the world’s most iconic brands; Coca-Cola, Amazon, McDonald’s, Samsung and Levi’s - to name a few.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “21CB is a global brand consultancy that partners with the world’s most brand-ambitious leaders who want to unleash brand as a driver of purposeful, profitable growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Mortar, we don’t just create marketing-we deliver “A-ha” moments that make brands unforgettable.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Elixir is a San Francisco-based brand strategy firm specializing in strategy and design for memorable corporate identity, positioning, messaging, marketing collateral, direct…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We close the gap between where companies are and where their brand needs to be.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Born & Bred is a brand and design agency in San Francisco, California that specializes in brand strategy, brand identity, and brand execution.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Led by former executives from The North Face® and Apple®, we provide expert brand marketing and retail consulting to global clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Harnessing controlled weirdness as a force for good is a full-on superpower.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Pier2 Marketing is a full-service marketing firm built around one purpose: helping our clients boost their brand, grow their business, and make smarter decisions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Design brands that impact millions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “World-class branding, marketing and social media for real estate agents, teams and brokerages.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Dakotomy is a strategic brand and growth consultancy that partners with venture-backed startups and top-tier VC firms to build the clarity, credibility, and traction required for…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ray Studio is a boutique branding, graphic design, strategy, and storytelling agency based in the San Francisco Bay Area.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Every codebase now has a second author.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Moniker is an identity studio based in San Francisco, California.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Gilmour Craves excels at strengthening and building brand identities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MKMCreative is a multi-faceted, boutique agency delivering creative solutions and meaningful relationships with clients by taking a customized approaching to curating…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Great technology doesn't sell itself.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For 29 years, Howry has helped start-ups to Fortune 100 companies differentiate themselves in their competitive markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Us in a nutshell: We’re your outside in-house agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “An innovative brand, strategy, and experiential marketing platform that specializes in making the ordinary extraordinary.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Lopez & Company is a marketing consulting firm focused on helping companies plan, design, and execute effective marketing strategies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2015, Theory SF is a multi-disciplinary marketing agency located in the heart of San Francisco.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 23, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: brands consulting firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names brands consulting firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of brands consulting firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name brands consulting firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Brands consulting firms based in San Francisco, United States at a glance
As of Sep 23, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for San Francisco, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for San Francisco, over 251 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among brands consulting firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in San Francisco, United States whose own description of what they do matches “brands consulting firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names brands consulting firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among brands consulting firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside San Francisco are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 840 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 23, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Brands consulting firms by metro in the United States
- Brands consulting firms in New York1197
- Brands consulting firms in Los Angeles730
- Brands consulting firms in Atlanta477
- Brands consulting firms in Chicago475
- Brands consulting firms in Miami369
- Brands consulting firms in Houston320
- Brands consulting firms in Austin316
- Brands consulting firms in Dallas305
- Brands consulting firms in Denver271
- Brands consulting firms in San Francisco251
- Brands consulting firms in San Diego225
- Brands consulting firms in Portland216
- Brands consulting firms in Seattle212
- Brands consulting firms in Minneapolis209
- Brands consulting firms in Boston195
- Brands consulting firms in Charlotte170
- Brands consulting firms in Philadelphia165
- Brands consulting firms in Tampa165
- Brands consulting firms in Washington160
- Brands consulting firms in Orlando153
- Brands consulting firms in Phoenix149
- Brands consulting firms in Nashville148
- Brands consulting firms in New York City119
- Brands consulting firms in Cincinnati111
- Brands consulting firms in Las Vegas103
- Brands consulting firms in Brooklyn102
- Brands consulting firms in San Antonio100
- Brands consulting firms in Indianapolis97
- Brands consulting firms in Raleigh97
- Brands consulting firms in Richmond97
- Brands consulting firms in Columbus94
- Brands consulting firms in Scottsdale93
- Brands consulting firms in Fort Lauderdale87
- Brands consulting firms in Kansas City86
- Brands consulting firms in Detroit85
- Brands consulting firms in Cleveland72
- Brands consulting firms in Charleston70
- Brands consulting firms in Milwaukee67
- Brands consulting firms in Baltimore66
- Brands consulting firms in Pittsburgh66
- Brands consulting firms in St. Louis65
- Brands consulting firms in Salt Lake City64
- Brands consulting firms in Jacksonville63
- Brands consulting firms in Irvine60
- Brands consulting firms in Greenville58
- Brands consulting firms in Fort Worth56
- Brands consulting firms in Louisville56
- Brands consulting firms in Birmingham55
- Brands consulting firms in Santa Monica54
- Brands consulting firms in Madison52
- Brands consulting firms in Omaha51
- Brands consulting firms in Boulder50
- Brands consulting firms in Newport Beach50
- Brands consulting firms in Grand Rapids49
- Brands consulting firms in Columbia48
- Brands consulting firms in Rochester47
- Brands consulting firms in San Jose46
- Brands consulting firms in Sacramento45
- Brands consulting firms in New Orleans43
- Brands consulting firms in Tulsa43
- Brands consulting firms in Boca Raton42
- Brands consulting firms in Buffalo41
- Brands consulting firms in Oklahoma City41
- Brands consulting firms in Colorado Springs40
- Brands consulting firms in Miami Beach40
- Brands consulting firms in Sheridan40
- Brands consulting firms in Knoxville39
- Brands consulting firms in West Palm Beach38
- Brands consulting firms in Bend36
- Brands consulting firms in Beverly Hills36
- Brands consulting firms in Oakland36
- Brands consulting firms in Springfield36
- Brands consulting firms in Wilmington36
- Brands consulting firms in Asheville35
- Brands consulting firms in Boise34
- Brands consulting firms in Franklin34
- Brands consulting firms in Fort Collins33
- Brands consulting firms in Memphis33
- Brands consulting firms in Alexandria32
- Brands consulting firms in Gilbert32
- Brands consulting firms in Long Beach32
- Brands consulting firms in Virginia Beach32
- Brands consulting firms in Baton Rouge31
- Brands consulting firms in Arlington30
- Brands consulting firms in Costa Mesa30
- Brands consulting firms in Des Moines30
- Brands consulting firms in Lexington30
- Brands consulting firms in Remote30
- Brands consulting firms in Newark29
- Brands consulting firms in Huntsville28
- Brands consulting firms in Marietta28
- Brands consulting firms in Naples28
- Brands consulting firms in Sarasota28
- Brands consulting firms in Tucson28
- Brands consulting firms in Wichita28
- Brands consulting firms in Lancaster27
- Brands consulting firms in Plano27
- Brands consulting firms in Tallahassee27
- Brands consulting firms in Honolulu26
- Brands consulting firms in West Hollywood26
- Brands consulting firms in York26
- Brands consulting firms in Durham25
- Brands consulting firms in Glendale25
- Brands consulting firms in Pasadena25
- Brands consulting firms in Rockford25
- Brands consulting firms in Savannah25
- Brands consulting firms in St Louis25
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names brands consulting firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many brands consulting firms are there based in San Francisco, United States?
RevenueBase identified 251 brands consulting firms headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Essence, headquartered in San Francisco, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most brands consulting firms?
New York leads with 1197 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (730) and Atlanta (477).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 840 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 251 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 23, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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