Fintech, healthtech, gaming. The work that ships through compliance and survives contact with users. Senior engagement on every brief. No juniors on the work. No handoffs out the door.
You shipped the engineering. Now ship the design.
Disclaimers, modals and confirm-dialogs accumulate until the product reads like a legal document. Designers got blocked. Compliance picked up the pen.
Engineering ends up choosing - usually the version that's easiest to merge, not the one that's right.
The roadmap is a compromise between what's possible, what's permitted, and what marketing already promised.
It looks complete on the page. It quietly forks across four squads. Nobody owns the canonical version.
So you keep apologising for the website, the deck, and the way the app looks beside the marketing.
You'd fix all of this if you had a senior design team that could ship through it. Talk to us about a 90-day brief. No pitch deck.
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Studio · Senior engagement
No juniors on the work. No handoffs out the door. Four ways to engage - strategy, sprint, system, studio. The brief is read by the person doing the work.
The doc, the positioning, the case for what to build and why. Upstream of any pixels. We come in, look at the work, talk to the room, and leave you with the argument - written down, defensible, signed off. Decisions before screens.
Identity, product UI, flows, prototypes - the visible artefact. Time-boxed, hand-drawn through to high-fidelity, tested in the rooms it has to survive. Customers, board, compliance, the team that will ship it. The work people see.
Tokens, components, patterns, governance - built so others can use it without us in the room. Designed for the people who maintain it, not the people demoing it. Versioned. Documented. Precise on purpose.
Embedded design as part of your team. Senior-led, retained monthly, woven into the roadmap. Weekly review, monthly target, quarterly reset. No handoffs, no drip-feed, nothing but senior direction.
The studio model most founders inherit was built for a market that no longer exists. Here's what we do instead - and why founders sign.
A 30-minute conversation, no deck. If there's a fit, we'll send a one-page brief by the end of the week. If there isn't, you'll know on the call. The brief is read by the person doing the work.
No juniors hidden behind the pitch deck. The names on the proposal are the people doing the work.
We argue the strategy in writing before we touch a pixel. If the doc isn't right, the design won't be either.
Fintech, healthtech, gaming. We design for the room your work has to survive - legal, security, support, customer.
Two slots a quarter. We're a studio, not an agency - that's a feature.