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Pilot first, retainer later
Every relationship starts with a two-week pilot. If the fit isn’t right, we part on good terms — refunded.
00Studio
The studio
that doesn't hide.
Most agencies sell a process you'll never see. We publish ours. Most agencies hide a price you have to chase. We post it. Most agencies wrap a deliverable in a year-long contract. We start with two weeks.
01Position
An independent studio with five practices and one rhythm.
We sit between the freelance market — where every engagement is one craft, one person, one bottleneck — and the holding-company agency, where seniority is reserved for sales calls and the actual work is handed to someone you'll never meet.
We hire across every craft so you don't have to coordinate five vendors. The same five practices ship every project: brand, product, growth, trust, operations. The same rhythm runs every engagement: a two-week pilot, then sprints with Friday demos.
We're privately held, debt-free, and run from Newark, Delaware. We pick our clients carefully and turn down work we can't do well.
02Not for
What we don't do.
Saying yes to everyone is how studios become mediocre. Here's the work we send elsewhere.
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White-label work
We don't ship under someone else's brand. If we made it, our team's name goes on the credits doc. Non-negotiable.
- 02
Project-managing other people's teams
We bring our own pod. We don't sell ourselves into a slot on your existing roadmap and call that an engagement.
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AI-only deliverables
Tools are tools. We use them. But we don't sell auto-generated identities, auto-generated copy, or auto-generated code as finished work. Every shipped artifact passes through a senior pair of human hands.
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Discovery-call gauntlets
We don't do four sales calls before quoting a number. Our number is on the website. If you need a different number, that's a project conversation, not a courtship.
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Year-long contracts on day one
Every relationship starts with a two-week pilot. We won't sign a twelve-month MSA before we've shipped something together. If you need that on day one, we're the wrong studio.
03Standards
House rules.
Operating standards are how a company behaves when no one is watching. These are ours, written down so you can hold us to them.
02
Published prices
Pricing lives on the website, not in a sales script. What you see on /pricing is what shows up on the contract.
03
NDA before brief
A mutual NDA is signed before we ask a single follow-up question. No "we’ll get to that later".
04
Plain-English contracts
Two-page MSA, no clauses you need a lawyer to translate. We send a redline-friendly draft on request.
05
You own everything
IP, source files, design assets, code, accounts. Transferred at sign-off — not after a final invoice clears.
06
Reply within 24 hours
On business days, every email gets a reply the same day or the next morning. No Slack channel required.
Next
If this sounds like the way you want to work, hire us.
Tell us what you're trying to do. We reply within one business day.
$5,000 pilot · refundable · 24-hour reply