San Diego · est. 2019
Communications & Brand Studio

Avenir Thinking is a communications and brand studio.

We work in long-term partnership with a small number of clients on strategy, brand identity, digital platforms, growth, and AI operations.

Through Avenir For Good, our software arm, we also build a nonprofit CRM and a gala ticketing platform for mission-driven organizations.

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Case study

A Woman’s Voice

A full brand system for the San Diego Women’s HIV Conference — identity, stage design, social, and conference materials.

Brand system · Identity · Campaign — 2025
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Selected work · Video

American Promise

All video work
[ Video still — American Promise · multi-state field production ]

Are you with us? A multi-state video production for a national civic campaign.

Direction · Production · Post — 2025
Selected work · Brand & Identity

A Woman's Voice

All brand & identity work

A unified identity for the San Diego Women’s HIV Conference and its year-round campaign.

Identity · Print · Environmental — 2025
Selected work · Software — Avenir For Good

Software we build for nonprofits.

Avenir For Good is our software arm. We ship and maintain two products built around how mission-driven organizations actually operate — not how generic SaaS imagines they do.

[ Product UI — Supporter briefing ]
01 / Product

Avenir CRM

A nonprofit CRM with an AI-driven supporter briefing.

Two paragraphs of context on every supporter, generated before the meeting — gift history, recent touchpoints, current programmatic interests, and the relationship arc in plain language. Built for the executive directors and development officers who walk into rooms every week and need to remember everyone.

[ Product UI — Gala dashboard ]
02 / Product

Avenir Gala

A ticketing platform built specifically for nonprofit fundraising events.

Tiered tickets, table seating, sponsor packages, paddle raise, and silent auction — in one system designed around how galas actually run. Replaces the patchwork of Eventbrite, OneCause, Greater Giving, and spreadsheets most development teams stitch together every spring.

Selected work · Web Platforms

Sites we built and ship.

All web work
Thoughts

Notes from the practice.