What we do

Services builtto hold upunder real traffic.

Brand systems, digital product, motion, web, and campaigns. One senior team from first call to post-launch, measured in shipped work — not hours, not decks, not headcount.

Capabilities

Five disciplines.One senior team.

We keep the roster small on purpose. Every engagement pulls from the same five disciplines below, run by leads with ten-plus years on the work they are shipping for you.

Brand systems

Identity, visual language, and tone that survives the whole funnel — not just the launch deck.

  • Naming
  • Identity
  • Guidelines
  • Voice

Digital product

Product interfaces designed to ship, with real code hand-offs and no file-name chaos at week six.

  • Product UI
  • Design systems
  • Prototyping
  • Handoff

Motion & film

Brand motion, product explainers, and launch films cut for the second you actually compete for.

  • Brand motion
  • Product film
  • Explainers

Web & interactive

Marketing sites and interactive pieces coded in-house, shipped on a CDN, and handed over without hostage.

  • Marketing sites
  • Microsites
  • Interactive
  • CMS

Content & campaign

Copy systems, launch campaigns, and social calendars built to survive a quarter, not a news cycle.

  • Messaging
  • Campaigns
  • Social
  • Editorial

01 · Brand systems

An identitythat earns its second year.

We build identity systems in layers, not logos in isolation. A mark, a voice, a type scale, a motion language, and a set of rules for when to break them — shipped as a working kit your team can actually use on the Tuesday after launch.

  • Naming and verbal identity
  • Logo system and lockups
  • Type, color, and motion scales
  • Figma brand kit and Storybook tokens
  • Brand guidelines, 40–60 pages

Typical timeline · 8–10 weeks

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Spin studio in the dark

02 · Digital product

Interfacesthat reach production.

Product interfaces designed alongside engineering, not tossed over a wall. We work inside your repo, ship a living design system, and stay on through the first two sprints after release to close the gaps nobody caught in review.

  • Discovery and product mapping
  • Flow design and prototyping
  • Design system in Figma + tokens
  • Engineering-ready component spec
  • Post-ship iteration, 4 weeks included

Typical timeline · 10–14 weeks

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Market charts on a dark screen

03 · Web & interactive

Sites thatstill load fast on a train.

Marketing sites, microsites, and interactive pieces built in-house on Next.js and headless WordPress. We ship under a 1.5-second Largest Contentful Paint, hand over a repo your team owns, and keep the CMS small enough to be used by the marketer, not the agency.

  • Architecture and content model
  • Design and copy in-house
  • Next.js + headless CMS build
  • Performance budget under 1.5s LCP
  • Repo and runbook handover
  • 90 days of post-launch support

Typical timeline · 6–10 weeks

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Laptop showing code on a white desk

Engagement models

Three waysto work with us.

Pick the shape that matches the work, not the budget line. We will tell you on the first call which one we think is right.

Sprint

2–4 weeks

One focused outcome, one senior team, one fixed scope. Right for launch moments, brand refreshes, or a single page that has to land.

  • Fixed scope, fixed price
  • One senior lead
  • Weekly shipping cadence
  • No long contract

Partnership

12+ months

An embedded studio function for founders and CMOs treating brand as infrastructure, not a project. We plan the year with you and own the shipping.

  • Annual contract, reviewed twice
  • 4–6 senior seats, named
  • Quarterly planning with your team
  • Blended rate, volume-adjusted
  • First-call access, 24-hour SLA

How we work

Five steps.No surprises.

Every engagement runs the same loop, regardless of discipline. It is slower on purpose in the first two steps, faster than most agencies in the last three.

01

Discovery · 1 week

Read the room before we design it.

Three working sessions with your team. We leave with a shared problem statement, a stack of unknowns, and a first-draft success metric.

  • Working sessions, 3 × 90min
  • Problem statement doc
  • Metric and risk register

02

Strategy · 1–2 weeks

Pick a fight worth having.

We come back with a narrow creative thesis, a positioning statement in fewer than forty words, and the two directions we would not take — stated out loud.

  • Creative thesis, 1 page
  • Positioning statement
  • Roads-not-taken memo

03

Concept · 2–3 weeks

Two directions, no fence-sitting.

You see two sharply different routes before week three. We argue for one. You pick one. We never show a third just to look considered.

  • Two distinct routes
  • Recommendation memo
  • Decision call, 60min

04

Craft · 3–6 weeks

Build the thing, then build it again.

Week four we ship a real thing — coded, animated, printable. Week six we rebuild it with everything we learned from the first one.

  • V1 build, working demo
  • Weekly review, 2 × 45min
  • V2 build, ship-ready

05

Ship & iterate · 90 days

We stay through the first round of truth.

Launch day is day one of measurement, not day zero of goodbye. For 90 days after ship we hold a weekly standup, patch anything we broke, and make the one change the numbers demand.

  • Weekly standup, 30min
  • Post-launch iteration window
  • Day-90 readout, with numbers

Stack

The tools we swing.

Design

  • Figma
  • Linear
  • Sketchbook
  • Procreate
  • Adobe CS
  • Glyphs

Motion

  • After Effects
  • Cinema 4D
  • Rive
  • Lottie
  • DaVinci Resolve
  • Octane

Development

  • Next.js
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • GSAP
  • Sanity
  • Vercel

Industries

We work with foundersshipping in —

SaaS & dev tools

Fintech

Consumer

Health & biotech

Food & hospitality

Culture & media

Questions

Beforethe first call.

What is the smallest engagement you will take?

A two-week sprint at a fixed price. Below that, you are better served by a freelancer we can recommend. We will say so on the call.

Fixed price on sprints, monthly retainer on longer engagements, blended day rate on partnerships. No hourly billing. No mystery line items. Every statement of work lists the deliverable, the window, and the price on page one.

Rarely, and only for studios we have known for at least a year. If you are that studio, email us and we will tell you honestly whether we are a fit for your client.

The people you meet on the pitch call. No handoffs to juniors the week the contract signs. The senior lead named in the proposal ships every deliverable end to end.

Ninety days of post-launch support are included in every engagement. Weekly standup, patches for anything we broke, and one iteration pass driven by the first month of real data.

Yes. Send your template and we will return it signed inside a business day. We will not ask you to sign ours unless we get past the second call.
iMac on a wooden desk beside plants

Featured · Halidon Finance

Brand + product site, 12 weeks.

“We went from a deck that nobody opened twice to a brand and site that closed our Series B in five weeks. Ember Edge ran the calendar, ran the tests, and stayed for the first month after launch. We would not pick anyone else for a launch that mattered.”

— Naomi Rhee, Co-founder & CEO, Halidon

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Next move

Got a brandworth burning bright for?

Tell us the shape of it. We will come back inside two business days with a point of view and a next step — not a pitch deck.