A New Model for a New World

An agile agency model designed to meet the complex challenges of the emerging world. We give you direct access to the best communications craft to find the narrow path for ecosystem impact.

The Pythia Collaborative is a network of the highest quality communications consultants curated by Saga Blane. The network is flexible: changing shape to respond adaptively to a client’s individual needs and specific organizational realities. In essence, we design a custom agency for every brief, removing the inessential and bloated aspects of traditional communications agencies, to give you direct access to (and the direct price-tag for) the expert minds who can guide the way.

A Co-Creative Approach

We are here to shape a regenerative future together.

Pythia was the Oracle at Delphi who summoned divine inspiration to counsel the powerbrokers of her time. The Pythia was not an individual woman, but rather a role that many priestesses to Apollo could play. She was the voice for feminine collective wisdom, channeled to direct the shaping of the world.

At this crossroads in our planet’s evolution, we are summoning the Pythia again to guide us in shaping a regenerative future. We are here to hold hands with our clients, to support them with multiple heads but singular heart, in bridging our shared hopes for the future with the current reality with courage, conviction, and expansive vision.

Guiding Organizations across Thresholds

At Pythia Collaborative, our brand work is birth work: taking organizations across thresholds in their lifecycle. We are called to launch new brands, to guide organizational evolution through rebrands, and to honor completed organizational lifecycles -composting the energy so it may continue to feed the future, perhaps in a different form. Whatever the project, we work at a systems-level to address the root - not just the symptom - because we are interested in real change and not just the illusion of it. Our systems-level brand work is built on five pillars:

Vision

What is - what if - what now? These guiding questions help us uncover with you your most expansive vision for the future. Through loving eyes, we show you what we see: about your strengths, your challenges, and the possibilities beyond the current imagination. Through Vision Workshopping and deep inquiry, we uncover the direction for the brand work to follow.

Voice

Every brand has a unique voice and we are experts at finding the resonance that will authentically compel your audience. Speaking from an authentic place is the way to cut through the noise and deliver your message. Through voice direction, brand narrative creation, and messaging systems - we show you what your story is to tell, and where and how to tell it.

Presence

Brand work goes beyond the optical. While website, messaging, and visual identity are paramount, they must express an intentional role for the brand. At Pythia, we place every brand into its competitive, collaborative, and cultural context. In this way, we can see it as part of a broader network - identifying the archetypal relevance, and shaping its presence in the world.

Action

Brand behavior is one of the biggest communications methods for creating a brand. From internal organizational systems to external messaging, our team considers your brand as a relational force. We guide brand behavior through organizational consulting, direct coaching, strategic thinking, and program creation. We ask what kind of relationships will amplify the vision, what actions will align and fuel its momentum. What do you want to inspire? How must you show up?

Impact

At Pythia, we understand that value is co-created between the giver and the receiver. For this reason, we bring your audience into the room with us from the very beginning. Seeing yourself through another’s eyes - specifically through the eyes of those you most want to speak to - is essential to understanding how to shape your brand. What authentic value and meaning can your brand offer?

At the Crossroads to the Future

We Embrace Multiplicity: of people, of points of view, of deep wells of expertise. We believe any rich ecosystem thrives from diversity, and the more eyes with which we can look at a problem, the more clearly we can see the way forward. While our collaborators each have a core leadership skill, they are all “hyphen people”, able to guide cross-sectionally.

We Balance Polarities: we go broad and deep, combine intellect and intuition, and integrate creativity seamlessly with strategic thinking. We’ve worked at both the highest corporate levels to grassroots entrepreneur experience and can hold the full spectrum in our view. With eyes fixed on the edge of the future, we remember the wisdom of our ancestors.

We Center at the Heart: At Pythia, we have many heads - but one heart. In this way, we can be both decentralized and participatory without compromising on momentum or decisiveness. Our shared passion is the desire to shape a new, regenerative reality that amends and rewrites the exploitative patterns of the past. Instead of providing answers, we believe, as Rilke said, in “living the questions some distant day into the answer.”

Our Core Collaborators

 Questions

  • We can help bring an initial intuition into precise direction. This is our preferred starting point, as often what clients believe is the challenge is only the surface-level problem, or a red herring. From our expert outside vantage point, we can take a good look at your brand/business and give you an honest assessment as to what the work is to be done, and how to do it. You can book a Brand Reading® to get a pulse on your brand overall. If your brand is the right match for Pythia Collaborative or some of our collaborators, you’ll get a precise plan of action as an outcome of your Brand Reading®.

  • The five people presented - Emma, Saga, Brooke, Callie, and Rebecca - offer core functions of any brand re-imagining and some mix of this core will be present in any Pythia Collaborative proposal. The mix is curated according to the needs and budget of the client.

    Graphic design is also a core function of brand work. However, we find this piece needs to be matched specifically for each individual client, as each designer has a specific style.

    For skillsets that are tailored to a brief - e.g. movement-building expertise, event-production, content creation - we tap our broader networks to find the voices best suited to fill out the whole.

  • While the Pythia Collaborative began as a formalization of as Saga's inner circle of creative partnerships, it has grown to be a truly mycelial web of networks beyond the original network. These are deeply human relationships: we have worked with each other, trust each other, and have amplified each other in ways visible and invisible. For the newer relationships, we have chosen to align because we share a shared vision of a regenerative future, and notice that we are working with the same ideas in our separate corners… so why not work together?

  • Of course! Our collaborators are all independent consultants with their own businesses in targeted fields. If you have a situation that only needs one expert at the table, you can reach out directly via their linked websites, or book a Consultant Curation session where we can guide you towards the best people for your project.

  • Unless otherwise requested, all paperwork is streamlined through Saga Blane LLC to allow for administrative efficiency.

  • If you want to become part of Pythia, email your work to saga@sagablane.com to start the conversation.

Work With Us

Access the Pythia:
Book a Collaborator Curation

Collaborator Curations are 30-min sessions with Saga Blane where you will be matched with the best talent from our network of independent expert communications consultants. Whether you are looking for someone to design your logo, to write your website copy, or guide you through buying Facebook ads - we can connect you with the team who not only knows their stuff, are wonderful human beings and easy to work with, and aligns with your specific frequency.

$111 and includes:

  • 30-min consultation and intake, considering holistically budget, goals, and desired ‘vibe’

  • A 1-page Collaborator Curation assembling our recommendations for your team, or guidelines for hiring.

  • Direct introduction to the talent

Book a Brand Reading

Brand Readings® with Saga Blane are 60-minute sessions for brands of any size and any category to see their brand more deeply.

A brand is more than a name, a logo, or a tagline—it’s a living entity with a distinct presence, energy, and potential. A Brand Reading is an intuitive and strategic analysis that reveals the essence of your brand, clarifies its strengths, and uncovers the deeper story waiting to be told.

Drawing on over a decade of expertise in brand positioning, creative communications, and coaching, Saga offers a sharp perspective on what your brand communicates, where it wants to go, and what’s needed to activate its full potential.

Although deeply strategic, this is a psychic reading for your brand. Whether you’re building something new, refining an existing identity, or feeling stuck in a transition, a Brand Reading offers insight, alignment, and direction to move forward with clarity.

$333 and includes:

  • 1-hour recorded consultation

  • A 1-page distillation of the core outcomes

  • Strategic recommendations for how to direct your brand. This may include a proposal for how the Pythia Collaborative can meet your challenges, or developing a Collaborator Curation and matching your brand with the right talent to fulfill your needs (*included in the cost).