The studio behind the platform, available on a scope. Same people, same standard, pointed at your thing instead of ours.
What the studio takes on
| Lane | What that means |
|---|---|
| Brand systems | Marks, type, colour, and the rules that keep them from drifting. A system, not a logo. |
| Storefronts | Design and build. Commerce that loads fast and does not look like a template. |
| Product design | Physical product, from spec through to a tech pack a factory can read. |
| Campaigns and drops | Concept, art direction, assets, sequencing, launch. |
| Content | Social systems built as templates you can run yourself afterwards. |
| Marketplace strategy | How to sell somewhere you do not own, and what it costs you. |
| Launch playbooks | The sequence, written down, so a launch survives the person running it. |
| Ops audits | Where a small operation is leaking time and money. |
| Community | Building one, and the unglamorous work of keeping it. |
What we do not do
- Retainers with no scope. Hours on a meter produce work nobody is proud of.
- Rainbow-washing. A Pride campaign for a brand with no queer people in it is not a brief we take.
- Work we cannot sign. Ghost production for something we would not put our name near.
- Bidding against a deck of nine other studios. Talk to us properly or do not.
How a project runs
- Brief. You say what the problem is. Not the solution you already picked.
- Scope. We write down what gets made, by when, for what. Fixed, in writing, before anything starts.
- Build. In visible stages, not one reveal at the end.
- Handover. Files, source and rights, in a state someone else can pick up.
Scoped, not hourly. You know the number before we start and it does not move unless the brief does. A brief that changes gets re-scoped in writing rather than absorbed quietly and resented.
Rights
Work made for you is yours on final payment. We keep the right to show it in a portfolio unless you ask us not to, and that request costs nothing. Anything of ours we bring with us stays ours: the underlying design system, tooling, and the platform itself. Licensing the PAY THE DØLLS mark is a separate conversation on Licensing.
Briefing us well
Four things, and a project that arrives with them gets a real answer instead of a discovery call:
- What exists now, with links.
- What is actually wrong with it, in your words.
- The date it has to be done, and what is happening on that date.
- The budget. A range is fine. “Tell us your rates” wastes both of us.