The team

Three people who've seen what happens when brand breaks.

We come from brand agencies, AI labs, and growth teams. We built HaveBrand because we couldn't find a tool that did what we needed.

Mara Holt

Mara Holt

Co-founder & CEO

Mara spent a decade at Wolff Olins and IDEO building brand systems for companies from Series A startups to global enterprises. She then served as VP of Brand at a Series B SaaS, where she watched, up close, as AI tools began eroding the identity she'd spent two years establishing. She left to build the solution she couldn't find.

The brands that survive AI aren't the loudest. They're the most consistent.

Wolff OlinsIDEOVP of Brand @ Kova
Reza Tahir

Reza Tahir

Co-founder & CTO

Reza was an ML engineer at Cohere before leading AI infrastructure at a series of martech startups. He understands, at a technical level, why language models hallucinate brand claims, and how to build guardrails that work with the model rather than against it. He built the first version of HaveBrand's Brand Brain in a weekend.

LLMs don't lie about your brand on purpose. They just don't know what you actually stand for. That's fixable.

CohereHead of AI @ MarkrStanford CS
Jordan Park

Jordan Park

Co-founder & CPO

Jordan led growth and marketing operations at HubSpot and later Figma, where they ran brand governance across a 600-person marketing org. They've built brand guidelines that lived in Notion and died in obscurity, which is exactly what drove them to build something better. Jordan owns product at HaveBrand with a simple mandate: make clarity effortless.

I've written more brand guidelines than I can count. None of them worked. Systems work. That's what we're building.

HubSpotFigmaHead of Marketing Ops @ Stackwell

The founding moment

“We were sitting in a brand review and half the room didn't recognize our own positioning in the AI-generated copy. That was the day we decided to build HaveBrand.”
Mara Holt, Co-founder & CEO

We're building a team that believes in this problem

We hire for conviction, not credentials. If you've been inside a growing team and felt brand drift firsthand, we want to talk.

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