Most advisory lacks depth
External strategists rarely spend the time to understand the business deeply enough to make meaningful strategic insights. Good strategy usually needs the nuanced understanding that only comes with deep familiarity.
A venture design studio
Shaping startups together
We partner with founders through the early years to build purposeful companies.
01 — Approach
We design, build, and bring to market.
We partner through the initial months and years of a startup’s journey. We design new brands and digital products, build them rapidly, and bring them to market.
We embed into founding teams, work for equity, and bring decades of experience to a founding team’s vision.
sweat equity
Over up front fees
embedded
Over arm’s length
02 — The problem
Good help is hard to fund.
If your startup lacks expertise in key areas, founders often have poor options to choose from:
Most agencies haven’t scaled
Creative studios can design and build quickly, but rarely manage projects into the longer term. Not having to build beyond version one means poor long term technical and design choices.
Money can’t buy good products
Capital can add scale, but often at the expense of finding market-fit. Investors can help you hire teams, but can’t buy the expertise to oversee key areas.
03 — Working together
We’re a different
kind of help.
We take on select projects with committed startup teams to bring products to market.
Right now, we’re not taking on new projects.
But we’re always happy to hear from you:
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