The Authority Sprint · A 45-day build

Somewhere right now, someone is deciding about you.From photos that no longer read as you.

Planet Ü rebuilds the version of you the internet finds, until it matches the highest, most potent version of the person they just met. Five founders, one 45-day authority build, run tight.

In plain terms: a strategic diagnostic, an art-directed session for stills and video, a produced long-form interview, and three feature placements. Forty-five days, built as one engagement.

The first five come in at $2,500, valued at $13,497. It pays off in the next room you walk into.

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The gap nobody names

In the room, you're unmistakable. Online, you're a few seasons behind.

Someone meets you and understands the weight of the work inside a few minutes. Then they go looking online, and the gap shows up immediately: a headshot from an earlier chapter, a bio written for who you used to be, a presence still catching up to the person standing in front of them. You get read at half the resolution of your actual work. The deals that gap costs you never announce themselves. They quietly go to someone whose presence already looks as sharp as their pitch.

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Dauss has elevated my brand to a place that I didn't know was possible, that I had dreamed of, but he brought it to vision…a total dream come true!

— We Are The Women

What the five get

One clear story, defined and grounded once, carried everywhere after.

The diagnostic finds the story. The session gives it a face, the episode gives it a voice, and the press puts it under your name. Forty-five days, one build.

The read · 01

The Authority Diagnostic

A full strategic teardown of where your presence is and where it’s costing you. Narrative, positioning, visual signal, platform architecture, market perception. You leave knowing exactly what’s holding the work back.

What’s delivered
  • A 45 to 60 minute walkthrough video
  • A written strategic report
  • A 30-minute follow-up call
The capture · 02

The Editorial Session

Two concepts, art-directed end to end, with b-roll captured alongside the stills. Wardrobe, light, and setting built around who you are becoming. The “next, NEXT version of you,” as Julie Santiago put it, shot before the rest of the world catches up.

What’s delivered
  • A two-concept portrait session
  • Motion b-roll for social and web
  • A gallery of finished, retouched frames
  • Lifetime usage rights to every image and clip
The record · 03

The Strategic Podcast Episode

A recorded conversation built around your thinking, shaped so the ideas land for the people you want in the room. Produced and edited for the platforms where your audience already spends its attention, including the AI agents now doing a share of the searching.

What’s delivered
  • A produced long-form episode
  • 10 social media short-form edits
  • Full audio and video files
The placement · 04

The Publication Bundle

Strategic feature articles placed in CEO Weekly, US Reporter, and LA Weekly. Third-party proof that sits under your name when someone searches you, doing the vouching you cannot do for yourself.

What’s delivered
  • Three strategic feature articles
  • Live links for your site and profiles
  • A press-mention line you can reuse

You leave with the material and the map: the imagery, the story, the voice, the third-party proof, and clear direction for where each piece lives. Your team handles installation, and they will finally have something worth installing.

Or we handle it. The Sprint is the front door to Planet Ü, seven studios covering photography, film, ads, social, web, and media. Whatever the build surfaces that you want carried further, one-off or ongoing, is a conversation and not a referral.

Across the Planet Ü ecosystem

3.2M

avg monthly impressions across client profiles

+48%

avg engagement lift post-build

$1M+/mo

one client’s revenue, since April 2025

$14M/mo

in ad spend managed across clients

The math no one runs

You have known about this for a year. Maybe longer. The photos that no longer look like you, the site you keep meaning to rebuild, the version of your story you tell in person and have never gotten onto a screen. You know it costs you. You’ve just never sat down and priced it.

So price it. One introduction you didn’t get because someone searched you first and quietly moved on. One partner who took the other meeting. One rate you didn’t quote because the work around you didn’t yet look like the work you do. Win back just one of those, once, and the build has paid for itself ten times over. Most founders lose several a year and never see the invoice.

Because a door that doesn’t open makes no sound.

That is the real number. Not what a session costs, or an edit, or an audit, all of which get cheaper every month and none of which decide anything on their own. The cost is the year you spend deciding, again, to fix it later.

This is the one place it gets done as a single thing: the strategy, the face, the voice, and the proof built together by one hand, so they agree with each other. Five founders at a time is all a sprint holds. When these five are gone, the next opening is at a higher number and a later date. The moment to do this is the one where you stop deferring it.

First five founders $2,500 Everything above, built as one. Nothing sold by the piece, because the value was never in the pieces. Claim my spot

One of the best investments I've made into my business so far, and I've made a LOT of investments into my business.

— Julie Santiago

Working with Dauss on my rebranding photoshoot was incredible from start to finish.

— Rachel
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Why early wins

The price rewards the founders who commit first.

Open nowFounders 1–5$2,500
Founders 6–10$3,500
Founders 11–15$4,900
And up

The first five set the rate for everyone after them. Planet Ü has built this work for years across seven studios; the Sprint is the compressed version, and these five are the ones it gets calibrated around. Their builds become the case studies. Once the cohort fills, the number steps up and stays there.

Who this is for

Built for founders whose reputation already outran their website.

You already know this feeling. You closed the deal, earned the trust, left the room as the most impressive person in it. Then they searched your name and found something that undersold you: an old photo, a thin bio, a site you’ve meant to rebuild for a year now. You’ve been too busy building the actual thing to fix how it looks from the outside. This closes that one piece, in one 45-day build, before the ladder moves.

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One of the most powerful conversations around my brand I think I've ever had.

— Alex Waters
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What to expect

From the moment you claim your spot to the day your features go live, here is exactly how the 45 days run, and where we carry it for you.

01
Claim your spot

Fill out the form, pick your date and time, lock in the rate

You complete a focused intake form, choose your Vision Call time, and your rate locks at the current tier. Within the hour you receive a confirmation, your client portal login, and a single point of contact who stays with you the entire build. Nothing else is required from you yet.

02
The read begins

Your Authority Diagnostic starts within days

Your Authority Diagnostic begins the moment you book, on its own track, so momentum starts before we even speak. Inside 7 days you receive a recorded walkthrough and a written report covering narrative, positioning, visual signal, and platform architecture, followed by a call to talk through every finding. You will know exactly where you stand and why.

03
The direction is set

The Vision Call

A recorded Zoom session where we set the creative direction for everything ahead, the editorial shoot, the podcast episode, and the press. You arrive as you are; the diagnostic and intake did the preparing. You leave with a clear picture of the story we are building and how each piece will carry it.

04
Concepts take shape

We build your two concepts, and lock your episode

We develop two art-directed concepts for your session, guide wardrobe, location, and styling, and lock your podcast recording date. You approve the direction before anything is shot. Every logistical detail, from call sheet to shot list, is handled on our side.

05
The capture

The session runs

Your editorial session is directed end to end, stills and cinematic b-roll captured together in one shoot. You are guided through every setup, so the day feels composed rather than performed. This is where the next version of you gets a face.

06
Delivery

Your assets land together

Your finished gallery, your produced podcast episode, and ten short-form social edits arrive together as one coordinated release inside your portal. Everything is organized, labeled, and ready to use. One delivery, not a trickle of files, so the whole new presence lands at once.

07
The placement

Your features go live

Your feature articles go live in CEO Weekly, US Reporter, and LA Weekly, carrying the new positioning and imagery under your name. We handle the placement and send you every link as it publishes. Forty-five days after you claimed your spot, the version of you the world finds matches the one people meet.

Last spot at the founding rate.

After this one, the rate steps up and stays there.

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$2,500 · 45 days · five founders a cohort