SIXPITCH is an urban design consultancy. Ryan Gravel is its founder and President > “I started my own business because I needed the freedom to work on ideas that don’t fit traditional project models.”

Six is the smallest perfect number and to pitch an idea is to propose one. “Sixpitch” simply captures the idea that our response to any challenge can include more than one answer and be shaped by multiple ideas.

Sixpitch consults on urban design. Our work varies widely, but the common threads are ideas, vision, and the places where we live. Founder Ryan Gravel leads Sixpitch into a variety of roles from project lead to team advisor, but in every case, he brings a unique perspective to the design of our future. Sixpitch helps identify, articulate, organize, develop, evaluate, and design our client’s ideas or vision. We also help make sure the proposals, contracts, and other decisions made in the communication and implementation of those efforts will achieve the outcomes they want. We are both pragmatic and experimental in our approach to opportunities, working to promote human, community, and global health, economic prosperity, equity, and civic identity through the thoughtful adaptation of the infrastructure in our lives.

Connect with @ryangravel on Bluesky and Instagram. #sixpitchlife

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SERVICES – Sixpitch engages all kinds of projects, campaigns, and initiatives. We help leverage physical infrastructure to shape cultural or economic outcomes and related place-based strategies for improving our way of life.

• Urban design & planning
• Field investigations & concept generation
• Vision & concept development
• Infrastructure design
• Site development strategy & design
• Pre-proposal review
• Integration of transportation with social, cultural, and economic development
• Staff resource to special projects
• Concept, project, or business narratives
• Infrastructure audits
• Sprawl policy review
• Civic identity & related policy
• Place-based political strategy & platform development

COLLABORATORS – At Sixpitch, we believe we can achieve more together than we can alone. We are most interested in working with clients and other collaborators who want to affect positive change in cities.

• Public agencies
• Community & business associations
• Project or policy-based non-profits
• Research institutions
• Business innovation teams
• Real estate developers
• Architects & landscape architects
• Urban designers & planners
• Brand & graphic designers
• Project or public finance strategists
• Philanthropies
• Political organizations & candidates

PROJECTS – To see what we’re up to, click here. For public speaking, look here.

SIXPITCH LAUNCH VIDEO – Here’s a little video we made to celebrate our launch in June 2015. (Music credit: “Depart” by Regis Victor via Free Music Archive). Related story here.