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Coast

Driving progress.

Overview

Coast is a fintech product designed to make fleet operators’ lives a lot easier. The team wanted a brand and website that would drive their business forward and stand out in a crowded market.

Our Role

Architecture

Website Design

Copywriting

Development

Context

A white card with Coast branding and a blue route line, crossed by a small delivery truck.

Fleeting glory.

Billed as the financial services platform for the future of transportation, Coast was founded by Daniel Simon, a serial entrepreneur with a history of admirably disruptive behaviour. It’s backed by a roster of investors who know what they’re doing, including Avid Ventures, Accel and Insight Partners. When Daniel asked us to help design their brand and website, they were still in stealth mode, so we had to be super quiet.

A website mock-up for Coast showing a landing page with headline text, navigation links, a sign-up form and a dashboard-style card with charts.

Coast is clear.

As a newcomer disrupting an industry full of comfortable incumbents with outdated practices and opaque pricing models, Coast wanted to enter the market like a breath of fresh air. Keywords: Clarity, modernity and transparency.

Keep calm and carry on.

Easily distinguished by deep blue oceanic tones, Coast’s brand is designed to exude calm, clarity and transparency in a sea of noise and confusion.

A blue card with the Coast logo lies at an angle on crumpled blue woven plastic.
Four rounded diamond shapes in blue, light blue, pale yellow and white on a dark background, suggesting a simple modern emblem.
Bold white headline on a vivid blue background, with a thin horizontal line and diamond marker along the bottom edge.
A bearded man in a cap and orange padded vest stands outdoors with a vehicle blurred behind him.
A white poster taped to a wooden post against a bright blue background, with bold text about fleet and fuel payments made easy.
A hand-drawn style illustration of a tilted gold coin with blue and black starbursts on a pale grey background.
Blue branded cards and packaging mock-ups for Coast, with shipping labels, a handset icon and promotional text on a light blue background.
Smiling middle-aged man in a blue T-shirt against a light background with a blue diamond shape.
White wavy logo shapes on a bright blue textured background, with two small rounded squares in pale yellow and light blue.
An open brand guidelines book showing a large logo on a blue page and a wave pattern with a small blue mark on the facing page.

A vehicle for marketing.

As the main expression of the brand and its elements, the website uses all the tools at its disposal to communicate Coast’s remarkable simplicity, clarity and transparency.

A smartphone showing the Coast website with a cartoon pig icon, emerging from a blue fabric background.
A two-column website mock-up for Coast, showing homepage sections, product interface cards, marketing copy and blue-themed branding.
Three feature cards for fleet management: a vehicle, a traffic cone and a spend reporting dashboard.
Tablet mock-up of a Coast sign-up page with fleet control headline, email form and a vehicle illustration on a blue background.

Coast-to-coast partnership.

As Coast has grown and matured, its marketing efforts have proliferated. Our initial work on the brand and website has evolved into an ongoing partnership where we work with Coast’s team on everything from website updates, ad campaigns, and all kinds of printed material.

Two Coast guide covers on a blue background, each showing a truck and route line, titled “What is fleet management?” and “Driver tracking 101”.
Bright blue Coast website graphic featuring the white word “Deploy” beneath a vertical teal bar with diamond markers.

“Together is a kind of magic hat for tech startups. They’re one of the few agency teams that can help every step of the way — from inception to growth.”

Daniel SimonFounder, Coast

With Thanks To

Daniel Simon, Alek Grinberg and the team at Coast.

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