Built for the pace of Boston biotech.

Greater Boston moves faster than anywhere in the industry. Platforms are founded, funded, and out-licensed on compressed timelines, and the story has to keep up. We work with Boston and Cambridge teams to make the science legible at the speed the ecosystem demands.

ServingGreater Boston · Cambridge · Kendall Square

Focus hereVenture creation · Platform biotech · NewCo launch

MomentsFounding · Fundraising · Out-licensing

Studio since2001

The Boston skyline at sunrise seen from the Public Garden, behind the George Washington equestrian statue. — Region Greater Boston — Cambridge and the Kendall Square cluster

Why Boston

The constraint is rarely the science.

Greater Boston is the densest life science cluster in the world: a concentration of venture creation, platform biotech, and academic-industrial gravity that turns science into companies at remarkable speed.

In that environment, the question is whether a non-specialist investor, partner, or regulator can grasp the science fast enough to act. That gap, between what a team knows and what its audience can see, is exactly where we work.

How we help

The founding and fundraising moments that define a company’s first years.

Science value articulation, investor narrative, mechanism visualization and animation, and brand systems for a NewCo launch.

Built to hold up under diligence, on the timelines the ecosystem runs on.

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Selected work in Greater Boston.

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Moderna

Visualizing mRNA as a new class of medicine, from R&D days to the TED stage.

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Flagship Pioneering–founded companies

Brand and platform work with ventures including Ring Therapeutics and Cellarity.

Cambridge-area platform biotech

Mechanism and platform work for additional teams across the cluster.

Teams we have worked with in the region

Moderna Flagship Pioneering Ring Therapeutics Cellarity Foghorn Therapeutics Kymera Therapeutics Obsidian Therapeutics Fractyl Health NorthSea Therapeutics Imviva Biotech Delos Capital

Boston, in figures

years working in Greater Boston

Boston and Cambridge clients to date

Cognition people based in the region

3–5

conferences we show up at each year

Our connection

We live here. The studio is in Seattle; the people are on the ground.

Cognition is headquartered in Seattle, and your Boston engagements are led by senior members of our team: co-founders Kristine Johnson and David Ehlert, lead brand strategist Leisha Muraki, and senior program manager Liz Lattanze. That is a deliberate difference from an office with a nameplate: the people here are practitioners on your projects, not a satellite sales presence.

Around them we bring a trusted network of Boston-area partners: CoreSecure, led by Mike Cormio, for engineering, including Veeva-compliant medical information hubs and large CMS builds; photographer Ken Richardson; and eCast Productions, with Dewey Schultz, for video and production.

It means we’ve long worked shoulder to shoulder with the Cambridge and Boston biotech community, and we know how this ecosystem thinks, builds, and moves.

If you’re building in Kendall Square or anywhere in Greater Boston, let’s talk.

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