Marketing Support for Lightfighter — Invisible Engine
INVISIBLE ENGINE
June 2026 · Capabilities
For Lightfighter · Performance EV · Felton, CA

Brand built
for the jump
from track to category.

A capabilities brief on what we'd build alongside your team as Lightfighter moves from racetrack-proven to category-defining.
01 · The moment
02 / 07
Where Lightfighter is right now

You just closed $6M. The next chapter is street-legal.

You built electric motorcycles that take podiums against gas bikes in MotoAmerica, and a Design Partner Program that turns riders into product co-creators. You did it without the brand infrastructure most performance companies need at this stage. That gap will compound the moment you broaden beyond racetrack-only machines. The brand has to scale ahead of the next product, not behind it.

$6M
Total Seed funding
($3M closed June 2026)
2
Race-bred models
V3-RH · V3-RS
P1
MotoAmerica podium
OrangeCat Racing
Track→St.
Racetrack today ·
Street-legal ahead
02 · The compounding gap
03 / 07
What breaks at this stage

Four brand functions that don't scale by accident.

The engineering team is heads-down on powertrains and thermal performance. Brand and marketing run through a small team and contractors. The model holds for a racing program. It doesn't survive a category launch, a premium street audience, or the next raise.

01

A position that survives track to street

The credibility that wins on the grid has to translate to riders who'll never race. A brand platform that keeps the competition soul intact while opening a far larger performance audience.

02

Racing proof turned into permanent equity

A podium is a moment. A brand makes it permanent. Right now the OrangeCat finish and the MotoAmerica program live in press releases, not in a story that compounds with every race.

03

The Design Partner Program as a moat

Community-led product development is something most brands would kill for, and you have it. Framed right, it's not a perk, it's your origin story and your defensibility.

04

Materials that raise the round and sign the dealer

The deck that closes Series A and the brand that signs premium dealers are the same story for different rooms. At six people with no marketing function, those assets do a team's worth of work.

03 · What we do
04 / 07
Capabilities

Brand strategy is the foundation. The marketing engine sits on top of it.

Invisible Engine is a brand strategy studio, but the work doesn't stop at positioning and identity. We build and run the brand and marketing functions a Seed-to-Series-A hardware team needs and can't yet staff in-house.

01 · Foundation

Brand strategy & positioning

Category claim, narrative architecture, messaging hierarchy, and the verbal identity that carries from grid to showroom.

02 · Foundation

Visual system & design

Logo, color, type, motion. An identity as engineered and precise as the bikes, built to flex across products.

03 · Build

Web & product presence

Site architecture, model pages, configurator and reservation flows aligned to the brand strategy.

04 · Build

Design Partner Program brand

Identity, messaging, and assets that turn the program into a flagship community engine and acquisition channel.

05 · Run

Race-day & video content

Race films, engineering explainers, and social-native cuts that build the brand every time you compete.

06 · Run

Performance & demand

Creative strategy, channel mix, and a measurement framework for reaching motorsport and performance EV audiences.

07 · Run

Investor & partner materials

The Series A narrative, dealer and partnership decks, and the launch assets for the street-legal chapter.

08 · Run

Lifecycle & community

Rider onboarding, reservation nurture, and the email and community programs that keep demand warm between drops.

04 · How we work
05 / 07
Engagement models

Three ways in, sized for where you actually are.

No retainer contracts you'll regret. Each engagement is scoped to a specific outcome with a clear endpoint, and you decide whether the next phase makes sense once you've seen the work.

2 weeks · Fixed scope

Discovery sprint

A complete brand & marketing audit, with a prioritized roadmap.
  • Brand & competitive audit
  • Positioning diagnostic
  • Channel and content baseline
  • 30 / 60 / 90 day roadmap
4–8 weeks · Project

Foundational build

Strategy + identity + the launch assets you need to scale the brand.
  • Brand strategy & positioning
  • Visual system & identity
  • Web & model page builds
  • Design Partner Program brand
Ongoing · Monthly

Fractional brand team

An embedded studio team running brand and content alongside your founders.
  • Race-day & video production
  • Content + social cadence
  • Lifecycle & community programs
  • Weekly stand-ups & reporting
05 · Why Invisible Engine
06 / 07
Why Invisible Engine for Lightfighter specifically

Built for the stage you're in.

Most agencies are built for Series B and beyond. Most freelancers can't carry a multi-function brand engine. Invisible Engine is the in-between, a studio sized for Seed-to-Series-A founders who need strategic horsepower and execution velocity from the same team.

We work almost exclusively with hard tech and performance manufacturing, the companies where the engineering is real and the brand has to earn the same respect.

01 · Hard tech

We brand engineering-led companies.

Manufacturing, deep tech, performance hardware. We make the technical story land without dumbing it down.

02 · Stage-fit

Sized for Seed-to-Series-A teams.

Senior strategists doing the work, not pitching it. No agency overhead, no 12-person calls.

03 · Story DNA

Racing brands. Performance brands. Proof brands.

Lightfighter is built on proving electric can win. The brand work has to carry that conviction at every touchpoint.

04 · Operator-aware

We work alongside in-house teams.

Brian, Nick, and the team stay in the driver's seat. We extend capacity, not replace it.

06 · Next steps
07 / 07
Next steps

Three steps. Two weeks to a clear answer.

01

A free brand audit

Take a few minutes at invisibleengine.co/brandaudit. We'll send back a clear read on where Lightfighter's brand stands today.

02

A 20-minute call

Once you've received your results, we talk through them. You share where the next chapter is pointing. No pitch.

03

A scoped proposal

If there's a fit, we propose the right first engagement: discovery sprint, foundational build, or fractional team.

Here for the guts,
not the glory.
Caroline Schaffer · Founder caroline@invisibleengine.co
invisibleengine.co