About Fat Cap

We're the brand strategists who tell you what no one else will.

Then we help you fix it.

Most consultants will nod along to your brief, validate your existing assumptions, and invoice you handsomely for the privilege.

We are not those consultants.

We know what it's like to do everything "right" and still watch your strategy quietly fail in real time. We built a product business from scratch, spent years hustling, relaunching, and staring at results that had absolutely no business being that mediocre given the effort involved.

Then we stopped building for the customer we'd invented in our heads and got obsessive (almost uncomfortably so) about understanding who was actually showing up. What they believed. What they needed. What the gap was between our story and theirs.

Once we utilized that information: Revenue jumped 150%. A subscription took off. Retention doubled. Our accountant started asking questions.

That obsession with understanding and building specifically for our core fans became our methodology. And that methodology is Fat Cap.

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What makes us different

We've actually run a business like you.

We're not consultants who learned from case studies and conference panels. We've sweated profit and loss statements. We've ugly-cried over failed launches. We've made the expensive mistake of building the wrong thing for the wrong reason — and then figured out how to fix it.

We do deeper, not louder.

While everyone else is telling you to scale, we're asking whether what you're scaling is actually working. Because more of the wrong thing is just a faster way to burn your budget. We'd rather find the right thing first. Then build something worth amplifying.

We make competition irrelevant

When your strategy is built around what your audience actually believes (not what you assume they believe) something shifts. Your message lands. Your campaigns convert. Your core fans stop comparison shopping because nothing else feels like it was made specifically for them.

Meet the team

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Megan Eckman

The “what if we tried something absolutely crazy” visionary

Megan sees the opportunity hiding inside the problem. She's a pattern-recognition machine with an artist's eye, a strategist's brain, and an unhealthy obsession with designing killer customer experiences.

Superpower: ADHD-fueled pattern recognition that spots strategic disconnects from three miles away

Credentials that matter: Built and scaled a product business across retail, wholesale, and subscription revenue streams. Survived a global pandemic with international supply chains intact and customers still happy. Knows what it actually takes to build an audience that won't shut up about you.

Actual degrees: BAs in Art and Creative Writing, UX/UI certificates

Businesses I've worked with:

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Jeffrey Opp

The "let's make sure this actually works" strategist

Jeffrey is a futures thinker who turns complex, high-stakes strategy into things people can understand and act on. He led design strategy for a $500M fundraising initiative and created social campaigns that raised $2M in 24 hours. He protects organizations from the very expensive mistake of building the right thing for the wrong reason.

Superpower: Dyslexic thinking that finds the solution nobody else could see because they were all looking in the same direction

Credentials that matter: Strategic design at the intersection of brand, systems, and human behavior. Makes the complicated simple. Makes the simple irresistible. Has enough certificates to wallpaper a small room and the receipts to back all of it up.

Actual degrees: MFA in conceptual art, Futures Thinking Specialization, product design certification and many more

Why "Fat Cap"?

Graffiti artists have two kinds of spray caps: fine tips for detail work, and fat caps for making bold, sweeping strokes that cover an entire wall.

Most consultants are fine-tip people. Careful. Precise. Coloring inside the lines someone else drew.

We're fat cap people.

We make big, bold moves. We cover the whole wall. We ask the questions that change the direction of everything — not just the campaign, not just the messaging, but the entire way your organization understands itself and its audience.

Because subtle is forgettable. And you didn't get into this to be forgettable.

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Ready to find out what's actually broken?

Let's have the conversation your last three strategy meetings were afraid to have.

Schedule a discovery call ->

No pitch. No pressure. Just straight talk about what's going on — and whether we're the right people to fix it.