Market research, sample diagnoses, and real case studies. No email required. Everything published here is built to show you what operational clarity looks like before you decide anything.
Three operational gaps that appear consistently across creative businesses — regardless of size, craft, or years in operation. Includes data, visual analysis, and a channel margin breakdown.
Three operational gaps in a Portland boutique branding agency: scope creep on fixed-fee projects, retainer margin inversion, and contractor cost invisibility. Combined impact: $43,400/yr. Illustrative sample — not a real client.
A complete illustrative diagnosis for a ceramics studio running five revenue channels — Etsy, craft fairs, wholesale, classes, and commissions. Shows exactly what a $199 diagnosis delivers, with real numbers. Illustrative sample — not a real client.
Three operational gaps in a Nashville interior design studio: procurement float erosion, e-design hour compression, and cross-quarter revenue displacement. Combined impact: $54,000/yr. Illustrative sample — not a real client.
A complete illustrative diagnosis for a photography studio with five service lines. Covers time cost blindness, service margin invisibility, and feast-or-famine revenue cycles.
How a boutique design agency identified that its most time-consuming client was generating its lowest margin — and what changed in the 90 days following the diagnosis.
How a 3-person interior design firm discovered that its procurement process was leaking margin invisibly — and fixed it with a single operational change.
A data report on the real economics of wholesale for creative businesses — the hidden costs, the pricing model that actually works, and when wholesale is worth it.
Every report here is built around patterns. Your diagnosis is built around your specific business — your channels, your cost structure, your actual revenue mix. One email starts it.