For studio founders doing $20K+ a month
You've built a really good business, but it feels overwhelming to earn what you're worth.
The demand is there. But everything still runs through you, so the studio only earns what your week can carry. I'll find where the money is leaking and tell you exactly where to start. Then, if you want it built, I'll build it from the way you already work, and you'll own every piece of it.
Tune Design Office
$130,000 a year of added capacity. From one systemised process.
Alex and Nic run a two-person product design studio. Their Product Reality Check Sprint was already in demand, and the constraint was doing more of them. "We're drowning in work," Alex says. Every Sprint carried hours of production that had to pass through their own hands, including assembling the finished thinking into the final InDesign report, so that was the first process we built.
Alex timed the manual version himself: 3h 34m to assemble the report. It now comes out of the same supplied content in 2m 55s. They run three Sprints a week, and Nic says the time saved gives them an entire day back every week to work on the business. Same Sprint, same judgement, same thing delivered to the client.
That recovered capacity is roughly another Sprint's worth of production. At their existing pricing, filling just one more Sprint a week is worth around $130,000 a year, from delivering more of something they already deliver.
3h 34m
Assembled manually
2m 55s
The same report now
"We do three of these Sprints a week, so that literally gives us an entire day back to work on our business."
What I help with
What can you help with?
Anything in the studio that happens again and again, takes your hours, and runs on decisions you already know how to make. How the work comes in: the posts, the inquiries, the calls, the proposals. How it gets delivered: the report, the deck, the brief, the checking. How the studio runs: the invoicing, the scheduling, the handover to your team.
A simple test. You've done it enough times to know what good looks like, what bad looks like, and the calls you make along the way. If it's genuinely new every time, it may not be a fit, and I'll tell you that on the call.
Next step
Find out where your studio is leaking money.
It starts with 20 minutes. Tell me about the studio and where your week goes, and I'll tell you honestly whether I can help. If I can, you'll leave knowing where I'd start. If I can't, I'll tell you that too.
Tell me about the studio
What you do, who it's for, and what's coming in.
Find where the week goes
Winning the work, doing it, or running the studio. Where the hours actually go, in your words.
Put rough numbers on it
What a job pays, how many you do, and the hours inside the main one. A rough figure is enough.
Know where I'd start
If I can help, you'll know the first place I'd look and which step fits. If not, I'll say so.
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