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Weaver & Loom

Case Study

Turning Textile Innovation into
Commercial Growth

How Will Be Live helped Weaver & Loom turn a new way of making rugs into clear messages, useful content and stronger business development.

Weaver & Loom brings together digital design and traditional rug production. Will Be Live shaped the narrative, positioning and content that made that offer easier to understand, and supported the commercial conversations that followed.

Client
Weaver & Loom
Engagement
Narrative and system messaging, market intelligence, competitive analysis, positioning, content creation and message testing
Sector
Textile manufacturing

The Challenge

A different way to make. A clearer reason to buy.
Weaver & Loom brought together digital design and traditional rug production. Communicating that offer required more than describing how the product was made.

The content needed to connect manufacturing capabilities with practical customer interests: customization, design possibilities and the process of bringing a bespoke product to life. It also needed to support ongoing conversations with prospective customers and
commercial partners.

12+
middlemen cut from the supply chain
3X
higher wages for artisans
50%
faster production times

The Mandate

1
Translate technical capabilities into clear, customer-relevant messages.
2
Develop content that explains the offer through useful examples.
3
Establish a consistent social media publishing approach.
4
Support business development with relevant content and communication advice.

The Approach

Build content around the conversations the business needed to have.

01
Define the audience and message
Capabilities connected to the questions priority
audiences bring to a sales conversation.
02
Develop content that explained the offer
LinkedIn posts and visuals on product possibilities,
process and customer applications.
03
Create a consistent publishing approach
An editorial plan that kept the business visible
and its value clear over time.
04
Support business development
Advice on using LinkedIn to open and grow relationships, with content as the starting point.

Outcomes and evidence

Commercial progress, supported by a clearer story.

Weaver & Loom joined the Techstars Toronto Accelerator in 2023. Across the engagement, Will Be Live supported founder communication and relationship development around the business. The case brings together the strategic work, examples of execution and the company milestones that followed.

Manufacturing detail
An artisan working on a hand-knotted rug
An artisan working on a hand-knotted rug
Design into production
Nigel Scott’s One Blue Two Blue rug specification
Nigel Scott’s One Blue Two Blue rug specification
The people behind production
Artisans and process that build buyer trust
Artisans and process that build buyer trust

Content in action

Content that made the offer easy to understand.

Founder video: Ali Ghassemi on cutting 12 middlemen (plays muted, on loop)
Ali Ghassemi, Founder and CEO,
on cutting 12 middlemen from bespoke rug-making.
Weaver & Loom LinkedIn posts shown on phones

Strategic Outputs

6
practical assets for content and business development
01
Audience and
messaging direction
02
Content themes and
an editorial plan
03
LinkedIn copy and
supporting visual content
04
Product and manufacturingstories
05
Publishing and
engagement reporting
06
Advice on outreach and
relationship development

Commercial Application

The work gave Weaver & Loom content it could use to explain its offer, maintain a professional presence and support business
development conversations.

Each activity served a commercial purpose: making the business easier to understand, giving prospective buyers relevant information and providing context for follow-up. This was the connection between content development and revenue generation.

“Over the past five years, the Will Be Live team has transformed our social media networks and helped us leverage LinkedIn as a formidable business development tool. With their strategic advice (provided both online and in the real world), we were able to generate hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue and connect with key investors and advisors. This traction, along with these contacts, were essential for our acceptance into Techstars, the world’s most active pre-seed accelerator, through which we secured funding for our next phase of growth.”

Ali Ghassemi
Ali Ghassemi
Founder and CEO, Weaver & Loom
The Will Be Live Perspective

Content should give buyers a reason
to continue the conversation.

For technology and manufacturing businesses, technical expertise is only part of the commercial story. Buyers also need to understand what that expertise makes possible for them. Will Be Live connects Brand Strategy and Demand Creation through clear messaging, relevant content and practical support for business development. The purpose is to help companies explain their value and move commercial conversations forward.