Engagements
One studio, one artist at a time.
We do not sell a template or a subscription. We sell a bespoke, done-for-you engagement: one repository and one content project per artist, built around an interview that is theirs alone.
$5–15k
per engagement, USD
What moves the number
- How many rooms the work has — two is typical, more takes longer
- Whether the logo and photography need tracing, cleanup, or direction
- How much support the artist wants writing the reflections
What you get
Four things, and you own all of them.
The site
A living, bespoke artist site
Not a template. A site built around the artist’s own rooms, with motion timed to their decay, a warm door for listeners and a cool one for industry, and a performance and accessibility standard we hold to near-perfect.
The brand book
A document the artist owns
The logo rules, the palette with verified contrast, the type system, the voice, the motion — regenerated from source with one command, so it is never a stale screenshot. Theirs to hand a label, a designer, or a festival.
The CMS
A content system they control
A visual editor where the artist and their manager change copy, swap photos, and add releases — with the live site updating in about a minute, no code and no developer. The difference between a site someone maintains for you and a site you own.
The press kit
Everything industry needs, in one screen
Three bio lengths that get pasted correctly, hi-res photography with exact dimensions stated, the logo pack, and the manager as a named human with a real address. Built for a supervisor with four minutes.
The model
One repository and one content project per artist. No multi-tenancy, no shared database, no login you have to manage. The cheapest possible infrastructure under the most bespoke possible product.
The artist owns the result outright — the code, the content, the brand book, the domain. If they ever leave, they leave with everything. We keep only a small, quiet credit in the footer, and only if they are glad to give it.
After launch
The artist can run the site themselves from day one. If they would rather we keep the lights on — hosting, updates, the occasional new room — we offer that as a simple monthly arrangement, never a lock-in.
Questions
- Why is the interview the expensive part?
- Because it is the only part that cannot be templated. The schema, the motion, the accessibility, the contrast math — those are a fixed cost we already paid. What cannot be copied is sitting with an artist until they can name their rooms. That is the thing worth paying for, and a monthly form will never produce it.
- Will my site look like Thelma’s?
- No. Thelma’s rooms are Colorado and Chicago, with her decay times and her color. Yours will be somewhere else, with different numbers and a palette sampled from your own world. The mechanism is shared; the meaning is never. If your site could belong to another artist, we have not finished.
- Who owns the work?
- You do — all of it. The repository, the content system, the brand book, the domain. We build one project per artist precisely so there is nothing to disentangle later.
- Do you only work with musicians?
- The method was built for musicians, and the room metaphor is literal for them. It extends to anyone whose work was shaped by the places it was made. If that is you, start a conversation and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right studio.
The first step is a conversation.
No brief, no deck. We work out whether your rooms are worth measuring — and they usually are.