About Us

A studio that stays through the build.

The strategist who wrote the position is still in the room when it is built, and nothing is handed to a team that was not in the conversation.

Our Story

Started with a simple belief: great design changes everything.

We started because the split between the people who decide what a thing should be and the people who build it is where most work goes wrong. So the strategist stays on the project through build, and the person who draws a component writes it. The work is smaller in number than it would be otherwise and it survives handover.

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Our Values

What drives everything we do.

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Craft Over Shortcuts

We take the time to do things right. Every detail matters, every pixel has purpose.

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We work as partners

We invest in understanding your business as deeply as our own. Your success is our success.

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Results That Matter

Beautiful work that does not perform is just decoration. We measure what matters.

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Always Learning

The industry evolves constantly. We stay curious, experiment often, and share what we learn.

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Radical Transparency

No surprises, no hidden fees. We communicate openly and honestly at every step.

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Diverse Perspectives

Great ideas come from everywhere. We build teams with different backgrounds and viewpoints.

Our Team

Meet the people behind the work.

Four roles, each with a decision it owns. Replace these with your own people; the layout takes any number from one upward.

Sarah Mitchell

Sarah Mitchell

Founder & CEO

Decides what gets built and what gets cut, and carries the answer to the client when the cut is unpopular.

James Chen

James Chen

Creative Director

Draws against real content and every state it can be in, including the ones nobody asks for.

Emily Wilson

Emily Wilson

Technical Director

Builds what the design promised, and says so early when the design promised something the platform will not do.

Michael Torres

Michael Torres

Strategy Director

Reads what customers already said in support tickets and sales calls, then writes the position the work has to hold.

How we work

Four things we hold to.

Not a values poster. These are the rules that decide what we do when a project gets difficult.

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The brief gets questioned first

Most briefs describe a symptom. We spend the first fortnight finding out what is underneath it, and we will say so if the project you asked for is the wrong one.

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Whoever designs it, builds it

Design and build are not handed between teams. The person who drew the component is the person who writes it, so nothing survives that only works in a static file.

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Every phase has a stop

Work is priced and agreed one phase at a time. You are never committed past the phase you are in, and you can walk at any boundary with what is finished.

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You keep the keys

The repository, the accounts, the component library and a recorded walkthrough are yours at handover. There is no part of the work only we can change.

Clients

Companies we have worked with.

Meridian Finance
Nova Outdoor
Apex Consulting
FinFlow
CloudSync
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Ready to work together?

Tell us what is not working. We will say which of the four principles above is going to make the project uncomfortable, and whether it is worth it.

  • check_circle The brief gets questioned before anything is drawn
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A written reply either way, including when the answer is that you do not need us.