Helped over 50 founders launch
Build Your Brand
A four-person design studio for founders — brand, product, and web, from first sketch to shipped code.
Trusted by teams at
Who we are
A studio built for momentum.
We're four people who would rather ship than pitch. No account managers, no hand-offs, no telephone game — you work directly with the designers making the thing, and the work moves fast because of it.
- Projects shipped since 2013
- 61
- Average brand to launch
- 6 wks
- Clients who come back
- 94%
What we do
We handle the whole launch.
Strategy, brand, product, and the code to ship it — one team, one thread, no hand-offs.
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01
Discover
- Positioning, audience, and the one thing your product has to say.
- A week of interviews, teardowns, and hard questions. You leave with a positioning line you can actually repeat, and we leave knowing what we're designing.
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02
Brand
- Identity, type, palette, and the system that keeps it all honest.
- Logo, typography, color, art direction, and a living set of rules — built so the twentieth asset looks as considered as the first.
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03
Build
- Product and marketing design, drawn straight into shipped code.
- We design in Figma and finish in Tailwind. Your engineers get components, not screenshots, and the handoff meeting stops being a negotiation.
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04
Evolve
- Launch, measure, and keep sharpening it after the applause dies.
- The launch is the midpoint. We stay on to test copy, tune funnels, and grow the system as the product finds its shape.
Selected work
Six launches, six new beginnings.
Harbor
Brand & web
2026
Positioning, brand, and a conversion-focused site for a customer-support platform moving upmarket.
Quill & Co.
Identity
2026
Editorial identity and web design for a newsletter studio publishing to two million readers.
Meadowbank
Product design
2025
Product design for a savings app that makes compound interest feel like a garden growing.
Copperline
Retainer
2025
A design retainer for a dev-tools startup — landing pages, docs design, and a full component library.
Amber took a product we could barely explain and gave it a story, a face, and a website that closes deals for us.
Rowan Reyes
CEO, Harbor
Why us
We're not built like most studios.
- Discovery decks
- Account managers
- Quarterly timelines
- Screenshots, not code
Most studios
Sell you a process, bill you for the deck, and hand the file to someone who wasn't in the room.
- Direction in week one
- Four people, no layers
- Live in six weeks
- Shipped in Tailwind
Amber
Show you a real direction in week one, then stay on the tools until it's live and earning.
Ways to work together
One retainer. Or one great project.
Design retainer
Most popular
A studio on tap — for teams that always have a next thing.
$9,400
/month
- Unlimited requests, one at a time
- Two-day average turnaround
- Brand, product, and web — all included
- Pause or cancel anytime
Single project
A brand, a site, or a product — scoped, quoted, and shipped.
From $18k
fixed
- Four-to-six week engagements
- Strategy, design, and build
- Weekly progress reviews
- Full ownership of every file
Client notes
The part we can't design.
Sixty-one projects shipped since 2013
The retainer is a cheat code. It's like having a design co-founder without giving up equity.
Avery Osei
Founder, Copperline
Fastest turnaround we've ever had from a design team, and somehow also the most considered.
Sasha Bakke
CPO, Meadowbank
Our conversion rate doubled within a month of the new site going live. The numbers speak for themselves.
Kai Falk
Founder, Solstice Sauna
Working with Amber feels less like hiring an agency and more like borrowing someone's taste for a quarter.
Quinn Ellison
Editor, Quill & Co.
Every deliverable arrived ready to ship. No 'final_final_v3' folders, no loose ends, no drama.
Devon Werner
CTO, Paper Trail
News
Notes from the studio.
Brand/Jun 18, 2026
Five Signs Your Brand Is Holding You Back
Is your own website the reason the deal stalled? Five symptoms we see in every founder call — and what each one is really telling you.
Process/May 27, 2026
Why We Design in Figma and Finish in Tailwind
The handoff meeting is a negotiation nobody wins. Here's how we deleted it — and what changed for the engineers on the other side.
Studio/May 4, 2026
The Six-Week Brand, and Why It Works
Long engagements don't make better brands, they make tired ones. What a six-week sprint forces you to decide — and why that's the point.
FAQ
Your questions, answered.
Still wondering something? Book a call and we'll talk it through.
How does the retainer work?
One flat monthly rate, one active request at a time. You add requests to a shared board, we work through them top to bottom, and most land back with you within two business days. Pause or cancel whenever you like — unused days roll over.
What if we only have one project?
Single projects are welcome. After a short call we'll send a fixed quote with a timeline — most brand-and-site projects run four to six weeks.
How quickly will we see designs?
You'll see a real design direction in the first week, not a mood board. From there we iterate in small, frequent rounds rather than big reveals.
Who do we actually work with?
All four of us. There are no account managers and no hand-offs — you talk directly to the people drawing the screens and writing the markup.
Who owns the work?
You do — all source files, all rights, transferred as soon as the invoice clears. Your brand shouldn't live in someone else's Figma account.
What don't you do?
Full-scale illustration systems, 3D, and native mobile development. When a project needs them we bring in trusted specialists and stay accountable for the result.