About Us
Founded in 2020, Emesley Mattlox was built on one mission: to help startups and small businesses create a strong presence, develop strategic marketing plans, and secure early funding.
From branding to point-of-sale strategies, we work with founders to transform ideas into scalable businesses. Our hands-on approach blends creative marketing with practical business development—resulting in clear messaging, smart positioning, and real investor traction.
To date, our clients have gone on to raise over $1 million in funding, enter new markets, and build brands that last.
Whether you’re launching, growing, or pivoting—we’re here to help you move with purpose and confidence.
Detroit's Business Growth Partners
Emsley Mattlox solves critical problems for startups in Detroit, MI, including lack of local brand visibility, ineffective go-to-market strategy, limited access to early-stage funding, unclear value proposition, weak retail or POS strategy, and underutilized digital tools. We help Detroit businesses build a brand that breaks through locally and digitally, create tailored marketing roadmaps and sales strategies, refine pitch decks, clarify your story, develop point-of-sale marketing strategies, and guide implementation and training so founders can automate and scale smartly.
Our Personality
If Emesley Mattlox was a person, they’d be strategic but street-smart, creative with a no-fluff approach, calm under pressure, but driven by urgency, empowering, not overpowering, and rooted in community, with a global mindset. We bring these qualities to every project, offering practical, creative, and community-focused business solutions.
Success Stories
One of the things we’re most proud of at Emesley Mattlox is helping first-time founders in Detroit—many from underestimated backgrounds—go from idea to fully funded and revenue-generating businesses. In one standout case, we worked with a local beauty startup that had no prior marketing experience, no funding, and just a prototype. Within six months, we helped them develop a brand identity, refine their pitch, and secure over $150K in pre-seed funding. That brand is now in regional retail stores and employing people from their own community.
What makes us proud isn’t just the funding—it’s watching confidence grow. It’s the moment a founder realizes they belong in the room. It’s the ripple effect that happens when one local business succeeds and brings others with it.
We’re not just building brands—we’re helping build Detroit’s next generation of business leaders.”