Condata
Rebuilding a 70-year brand from the ground up
Rebuilding a 70-year brand from the ground up
Project type
Brand
Industry
Finance
Location
United Kingdom
Services provided
Brand
Strategy
Design
Copy
ConData has been auditing freight bills since the 1950s. Founded as Continental Freight Data Systems by two truck drivers manually checking for overcharges, they've grown into a business that processes around $50 billion in annual freight spend for clients including General Motors, Boeing, Walmart, and Lockheed Martin.
But their brand hadn't kept pace. Despite 70 years of history and a client roster most companies would envy, ConData were essentially invisible in their market. New CEO Chris Cassidy arrived with a clear mandate: reposition the business from a legacy freight auditor to a transportation spend optimisation leader, and build a brand and website that could take them there.
We rebuilt both from the ground up.
The new ConData mark isn't decorative. Every element of it carries the brand story.
The 'C' and 'D' of ConData interlock to form a single unified symbol, one half light, one half dark, day meeting night. Together they express the central idea: data, connected. The design draws on the language of data UI interfaces, tracking dials, and graph visualisations, embedding multiple layers of meaning into a mark that rewards closer attention.
A fine outer ring nods to ConData's global reach, completing a logo that retains heritage while signalling an entirely new direction.
ConData's palette does a specific job. Charcoal, black, and white form the dominant base: serious, refined, deliberately restrained. The "less is more" approach keeps focus on data and content, giving information room to breathe.
Orange carries ConData's brand heritage forward as a precision accent, deployed selectively to illuminate the moments that matter most. Warm-toned greys complement the core tones and contribute to the modern aesthetic. Teal-leaning blues are reserved for charts, graphs, and data visualisations, earning their place only where additional colour differentiation is genuinely required.
The new creative direction gave us a system with real range. Fine-line graphics, data node dot work, and directional lines form the visual foundation, but the value of any brand system is proved in application.
We tested how it works in combination with other assets:
Photography treated with tonal colour grading to sit naturally within the palette
A custom icon set developed to the same line weight and precision as the logo mark
Graphic elements worked into layouts, data visualisations, and supporting materials. At every point, the system held.
To give the ConData team the tools to apply it confidently, we developed comprehensive brand guidelines covering every element of the visual language.
The result is a brand that travels. Whether it appears on a client presentation, a platform dashboard, a printed report, or a webpage, the visual language stays coherent and the identity stays intact.
ConData's previous website was, by their own description, closer to a printed leaflet than a serious B2B platform. The new site had one job above all others: turn high-intent visitors into pipeline.
Built on HubSpot Content Hub, the design is clean, premium, and deliberately considered. The colour system does serious work here, with the restrained palette giving the site a sophistication that positions ConData alongside the Fortune 500 clients they serve. Every layout decision is made in service of the user, with clear information hierarchy and intuitive navigation ensuring visitors find what they need and know exactly what to do next.
Conversion paths are built into the architecture from the start, not bolted on afterwards. High-intent calls to action, frictionless routes to demo and sales contact, and a structure that guides procurement, finance, and logistics decision-makers through the platform and services story without losing them along the way.
A flexible build that gives the ConData team full content control, with a section-based system that lets them build and update pages without developer dependency. HubDB powers the case study and resource libraries, keeping high-value content organised and easy to maintain as the business scales.