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A hands-on workshop for founders who are serious about owning their brand

Own Your Terms®Building & Protecting Your Brand

Walk in with an idea. Walk out with a brand.

In one session you'll build your brand from the ground up using AI tools — learning from AI experts Aisha Wynn and Lana Hout and attorney Shivani Honwad, Esq. on how to come up with a name you can actually protect — and walk out with a brand guide and legal strategy.

October 20, 2026 · 4:00 – 7:00 PM PTIn person $497 · Virtual $397

Limited seats · One session

Own Your Terms: Building and Protecting Your Brand event flyer

§ 01 — Who this is for

Founders and creatives who…

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Naming, launching, or rebranding

You're naming a business, launching a new offering, or rebranding — and want it to look and hold up professionally.

02

Trademarking on the “someday” list

You've been putting off trademarking because the process feels confusing, expensive, or like a “someday” problem.

03

AI-curious, AI-stuck

You want to use AI tools to move faster on brand identity, but don't know how to prompt for it or where to start.

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One session, done right

You'd rather spend one session getting this right than months untangling it later.

§ 02 — Why this workshop

The usual path

Most branding workshops teach you to design.

Most legal content teaches you to file.

Almost nobody walks you through both in the right order — which matters, because the order is exactly where founders get burned. Name a business, fall in love with a logo, spend money on merch and a website… and then find out the name conflicts with an existing mark, or the class codes were wrong, or there was never a contract protecting who owns the IP in the first place.

Flipped

This workshop flips that: legal thinking before the brand is final.

You'll learn how to think about trademark conflicts and legal protection before you finalize your brand — so the brand guide and name you walk out with are ones you can actually build a business on.

§ 03 — What you'll walk away with

One clear brand. A toolkit you can keep using.

You'll actually build it during the workshop, with live access to AI experts Aisha Wynn and Lana Hout and attorney Shivani Honwad, Esq. as you work.

(1)

Your brand book

Estimated value · $750

Clarify your positioning, ideal audience, brand voice, messaging and visual direction — a foundation for how your brand looks, sounds and shows up.

(2)

Your own AI brand brain

Estimated value · $500

Set up AI to understand your business, audience, voice and rules, so you can create smarter and faster without starting from scratch every time.

(3)

A stronger brand name

Estimated value · $300

Generate or pressure-test your name, research availability and potential conflicts, and learn what makes a name more protectable and eligible for USPTO registration.

(4)

A trademark protection roadmap

Estimated value · $1,500

Learn preliminary clearance, trademark classes and the USPTO filing process, plus contract language, licensing and cease-and-desist basics for protecting your brand.

(5)

Ready-to-use brand messaging

Estimated value · $500

Develop your value proposition, elevator pitch, website messaging, brand story and core messaging pillars to clearly communicate what you do and why it matters.

(6)

Three reusable AI brand-building agents

Estimated value · $500

Take home an AI Brand Launch Packet with reusable tools for brand strategy, naming, positioning and consistent messaging — long after the workshop ends.

Each asset priced on its own: brand book $750 · AI brand brain $500 · three reusable AI brand-building agents $500 · naming and availability framework $300 · trademark strategy and protection guidance $1,500 · ready-to-use brand messaging $500.

Estimated combined value of the take-home assets

$4,050+

In person $497 · Virtual $397 — less than a third of the individual value.

§ 04 — Your investment

Your brand. Your AI. On your terms.

Come with an idea. Leave ready to build it, market it and protect it. Choose how you'd like to join us.

In person

$497

Build alongside founders, AI experts Aisha Wynn and Lana Hout and attorney Shivani Honwad, Esq. in the room.

Virtual

$397

Attend the live workshop online with Aisha Wynn, Lana Hout and attorney Shivani Honwad, Esq. and build your brand from wherever you are.

A note on the legal sessions: these are educational, built to help you understand the process and ask better questions — not a substitute for advice on your specific situation. Attending the workshop does not create any attorney-client relationship.