Vertical Case Study · Bundle

Blackstone
Fitness × KNVL

Two Fresno/Clovis gyms. One KNVL vertical. Both came from the same Fresno fitness pipeline — scoped back-to-back with FORGED on Fightgirl and TEMPERED on Trinity Gym, so the brand work compounds instead of restarting.

Clients
Fightgirl + Trinity Gym
Packages
FORGED + TEMPERED
Industry
Fresno Fitness Vertical
Location
Clovis / Fresno, CA
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FG
Fightgirl · FORGED
TG
Trinity Gym · TEMPERED
Blackstone Fitness Vertical Clovis · Fresno · Bundle
01 — The Vertical Challenge

Fresno gyms have no brand moat.

The Fresno/Clovis fitness market is full of gyms competing on price and equipment. Low-intent Instagram content — bootcamp throwbacks and generic transformation reels — does nothing to retain members or differentiate a facility. The brand is the moat, and almost nobody in the local fitness vertical has built one.

Both Fightgirl and Trinity Gym were sitting in that gap from different ends: one a brand-new youth-fight gym with zero brand presence, the other a legacy gym whose visual identity had gone stale against new boutique competition. KNVL scoped them back-to-back so a single brand language could lift both.

Fightgirl — athlete-led youth-fight gym with no visual system, no merch, no recurring IG cadence
Trinity Gym — legacy gym under competitive pressure with dated visual identity and no paid social direction
Both losing members on price — neither had retention messaging worth keeping someone past the intro month
No shared brand language — owner referrals, events, and cross-promotion were all generic gym marketing
02 — The Treatment

Two gyms. Two tiers.
One vertical playbook.

FORGED on Fightgirl shipped the brand kit + 4 logo concepts + social system. TEMPERED on Trinity Gym delivered a full brand system plus a 4-week paid social direction. Both gyms now share a vertical language without copying each other.

FORGED · $899
Fightgirl
Brand-new youth-fight gym in Clovis. Athlete-led. Zero prior brand. Needed a real IG presence, merch-ready mark, and a weekly content cadence the coaches could actually run.
Social Kit
6–8 IG post templates
Identity
4 logo concepts
Voice
Athlete-led cadence
Shipped a post-ready brand system the coaches could pull from weekly. Athlete-led voice preserved — no corporate polish that would have killed the gym's actual energy.
TEMPERED · $1,899
Trinity Gym
Legacy Clovis gym fighting boutique pressure. Dated visual identity. No paid social direction. Existing member base to not alienate — and a price war to exit.
Brand System
Full identity + voice
Paid Social
4-week pilot direction
Retention
Member messaging angle
Full brand rebuild with a retention-first messaging angle. Existing members stay on the bus, new members see something that justifies the price. Paid social pilot built into the delivery so the gym has numbers to point at after week 4.
03 — The Outcome

Two gyms. Built. Live.
One vertical open for the next.

Both gyms shipped to live within six weeks. Trinity continues as an ongoing retainer. Fightgirl has a brand the coaches actually execute from every week. The vertical — the words, the visuals, the cadence — is now repeatable for any Fresno/Clovis fitness operator who comes next.

2
Gyms built
from scratch
6
Weeks from kickoff
both shipped live
8
Logo concepts
total across both
1
Ongoing retainer
(Trinity Gym)
Vertical-tuned content cadence — athlete-led voice on Fightgirl, member-led voice on Trinity, no copy-paste between the two
Paid social direction shipped with Trinity — 4-week pilot ready to launch as soon as the gym signs off
Member retention angle built into Trinity's messaging — owner has a real answer to "why is this gym worth the price"
Voice consistency across both gyms — same vertical language, different coach-led execution
Both gyms shipped live — not PDFs in folders, systems the coaches and owner can pull from this week
Vertical playbook now exists — any future Fresno/Clovis fitness lead references this, not a generic case study
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FORGED starts at $899 · TEMPERED starts at $1,899
FORGED
$899
Full brand system in 5 business days
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TEMPERED
$1,899
Full brand system + paid social pilot
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