Atmo Studio

I embed myself directly with your team as your fractional creative director. I build your foundational brand and product systems while simultaneously developing your internal design capacity so you can eventually operate independently.

How it works:

• Up to 40 hours/mo serving as your founding designer/fractional creative director
• Access to the power of a creative studio to your team without the overhead
• Your priorities become my priorities. I function as a core team member invested in your success
• We find the emotional core of your organization and connect it to your business goals
• Predictable monthly investment
• 1% revenue earned across all active Studio Partners goes back to you — we grow together.

What you get:

• Design leadership for all strategic initiatives—positioning, customer experience, product strategy, and visual identity
• Build foundational brand systems, product design systems, design processes, and operational infrastructure from the ground up
• Design operations setup: file organization, naming conventions, tool stack, workflows, and team rituals
• Identify, recruit, onboard, and mentor your first design hires when you're ready to scale internally
• Ongoing creative direction and decision-making support across all design touchpoints
• Access to my library of proven frameworks, templates, and tools

Best for:

• Founders who value a true strategic partner embedded in the work, not an external agency relationship
• 0→1 brands and products that need comprehensive design foundation and leadership but can't justify a full-time senior hire yet
• Growing organizations building internal design capacity for the first time and want to do it right from day one
• Teams ready to commit to building lasting systems, not just executing one-off projects
• Organizations seeking sustainable, independent design capabilities—not permanent vendor dependency

A monthly partnership for founders and leaders who need strategic design guidance without a full-time design commitment. I serve as your fractional creative director—a strategic sparring partner who helps you navigate positioning, brand strategy, and critical design decisions during the "messy middle" of building your business.

How it works:

• Up to 10 hrs / month of focused strategic partnership
• Weekly 60 min deep-dive strategy sessions where we define objectives, workshop ideas, and solve your biggest creative challenges
• Unlimited async messaging access via text/Telegram for  quick questions, gut checks, and decision support (24-hour response time)
• Custom frameworks and resources developed for your specific problems
• 1% revenue earned across all active Studio Partners goes back to you — we grow together.

What you get:

• Brand positioning and messaging frameworks tailored to your market
• Competitive landscape analysis and differentiation strategy
• Audience definition and customer insight development
• Design decision-making support and critique for your team's work
• Creative direction for campaigns, launches, or initiatives
• Access to my library of proven frameworks, templates, and tools
• Recommended resources, tools and readings to develop your design literacy

Best for:

• Bootstrap/seed-stage founders who need strategic clarity and creative direction but aren't ready for a full-time design hire
• Solo founders or small teams building 0→1 who need a strategic partner to help them avoid costly mistakes and move faster
• Businesses experiencing strategic drift that need a "true north star" to realign their brand and team around a clear direction
• Testing ground for full Design Partnership — Get to know how we work together before committing to a larger engagement

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Note: If a project requires hands-on execution (research sprints, concept development, production work), we can scope that separately as an add-on or transition to an Embedded Design Partnership.