Born unveils new brand identity for Jiffi as tech agency shifts to ‘clarity engineering’
Independent creative agency Born has delivered a full rebrand for Jiffi, a fast growing Sydney based tech agency known for helping businesses cut through operational chaos. The new identity marks a major shift in how Jiffi expresses its purpose, reflecting the company’s evolution into a category defining force in what both teams call ‘clarity engineering’.
When Born began work with Jiffi earlier this year, they found a company with strong momentum and a reputation for fixing the mess that software keeps promising to solve. But the brand had not caught up with the impact the team was delivering. Jiffi had a distinct way of thinking, a clear philosophy and a set of practices that clients kept trying to define, but the story lacked its own language. Born was brought in to uncover that through line and build a brand system powerful enough to hold it.
“Jiffi was solving problems that nobody else wanted to touch, but their story was a little confused, and undersold,” says Born co-founder and strategy lead David Coupland. “They were being mistaken for another consultancy, when in reality they were doing something far more important. They were engineering clarity in a world that is increasingly more confusing”
Born developed a brand framework and messaging system that made sense of what Jiffi was providing. Instead of adding more software to broken systems, Jiffi embeds inside businesses to rebuild workflows, communication loops and technical foundations from the inside out. Born recognised that this approach was not just a service model, it was a category in its own right, a response to the growing complexity and noise inside the tech ecosystem.
“The tech industry has created an oversupply of tools and an undersupply of clarity,” says Coupland. “Jiffi’s entire philosophy pushes against that. They strip away noise, rebuild fundamentals and make operations make sense again. Our job was to crystallise that into a brand that felt sharp, practical and confident.”
The result is a new identity built around structure, motion and precision. The brand system emphasises simplicity, alignment and the kind of thinking that cuts straight through clutter. It is designed as a practical toolkit the Jiffi team can use across internal culture, client engagements and the next phase of growth.
Managing director and co-founder of Jiffi, Jake Shelley says the new identity captures a reality the team had been living for over two years: “We kept hearing the same thing from clients, that we made their business make sense again. Born helped us understand that this was more than feedback, it was our category. They gave us the language and clarity to claim it.
“We never cared about looking like a typical agency. We cared about doing the work that fixes things. Born built a brand that reflects that. It feels engineered, not decorated. It feels like us.”
Coupland says the alignment between the two companies made the process unusually seamless: “Jiffi rejects fluff, and so do we. They wanted a brand that was clean, confident and brutally clear. No noise, no theatrics. Just a strong point of view executed well. The rebrand gives them a platform that can scale as fast as they are growing.”
With the new identity in place, Jiffi is preparing for its next phase of expansion, led by increasing demand for embedded operational and technical delivery, and is off the back of their recent AFR Fast 100 award, placing 10th.
Adds Shelley: “This brand is not a reset. It is a recognition of what we have already been building. And now we have the identity to match it.”
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