Three shapes engagements take.
Engagements take three rough shapes. They are not packages. They are descriptions of how the work tends to settle once a question arrives.
A read
A single focused session for founders and creative leaders who know something is off but cannot quite locate it. The studio examines what you have built, what it is communicating, and what is drifting from your original story. You leave with a clear read and a line of sight forward.
Typically a single working week. Delivered as a working note, not a deck.
A stay
A monthly engagement for organizations at an inflection point. The studio becomes the judgment layer your team does not have, available consistently as decisions land. Useful when the work is moving faster than the occasional outside read can keep up with.
Three to six months. Built around your rhythm.
A build
Identity and product work for organizations that have already decided what is true. Identity systems, visual languages, websites, sometimes software. Built from clarity, not on top of confusion.
Typically four to six months, often longer. Available as a standalone engagement or as the natural continuation of any of the above.
Inside an engagement, this is the work that happens.
Reading
- Behavioral observation
- User research
- Narrative audit
- Identity audit
- Working notes
Framing
- Experience architecture
- Service design
- Systems thinking
- Framework development
- Bottom-up product strategy
Making
- Product design (UI/UX)
- Identity systems
- Art direction
- Visual systems
- Digital implementation
Operating
- Cross-functional facilitation
- Design operations
- Process development
- Workshop synthesis
- Mentoring
If your question fits one of these shapes, or if it does not, send a note. Include the question you are sitting with, the situation it lives in, and any deadlines.
Replies usually within three working days. The studio takes on a small number of engagements each year, so not every conversation becomes a project, and that is fine.
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