Brief & audit
A working session, an audit of what you already have, and a scope written in plain language with a fixed price against it.
Ends with — signed scopeCreative studio · North Carolina & New York
Five crafts.
One studio.
No handoffs.
Websites, AI video, graphic design, social media and mobile apps — built by one team working from one brief and one brand system. Nothing gets lost in the gap between agencies, because there is no gap.
What we make
Every surface your brand is judged on.
Each discipline is a full practice, not an add-on. They share a design system, a file structure and a weekly review — which is why the site, the ad and the app all look like the same company made them.
01 / WEB
Websites
Design systems first, then a build your team can actually run — WordPress, Webflow or Next.js depending on who maintains it. Performance is a requirement, not a hope: we ship against Core Web Vitals and a real content model, with accessibility and Spanish-language builds handled from the first wireframe rather than bolted on the week before launch.
02 / MOTIONAI Videos
Generative shots, live plates and motion design cut on the same timeline. Storyboard and voice approved before render, delivered in 16:9, 1:1 and 9:16 with captions burned or sidecar.
03 / BRANDGraphic Design
Identity, packaging, print and the unglamorous brand kit that keeps everyone else consistent.
04 / SOCIALSocial Media
Calendars, platform-native edits and reporting that goes past a screenshot of impressions.
05 / APPSMobile Apps
iOS and Android from first flow to store review — design, build, and the submission paperwork.
Why one studio
The handoff is where brands go wrong.
A web agency builds the site. A production house shoots the film. A freelancer runs the feed. Three type scales, four shades of the same blue, and a logo that keeps changing weight. We removed the seams by keeping all five crafts on one payroll and one design system.
One brand system, five outputs.Tokens, type and grid are defined once and consumed by the site, the deck, the reel and the app.
One point of contact.A producer owns the whole scope, so you brief once and approve once per stage.
Assets you keep.Source files, layered artwork, repo access and the editable project — handed over at closeout, not held hostage.
Where a typical engagement goes
Share of active clients using each discipline. Most arrive for one and stay for three — the second and third are where the system starts paying for itself.
How it runs
Four stages. Nothing invisible.
The same sequence whether the scope is a logo or a full launch. Each stage ends in something you can open, review and sign — not a status email.
Direction
Two art directions, applied to real screens and real frames — never a mood board. You pick one; we refine it, not you.
Ends with — approved directionBuild
Weekly builds on a staging link you can click through. Comments go on the work itself, so feedback never lives in a thread.
Ends with — staging sign-offShip & iterate
Launch, handover of every source file, then a 30-day window of fixes and a first performance read before any retainer starts.
Ends with — full handoverWho we work with
We show the clients, not the case studies.
Most of what we make is under NDA, embargo or someone else’s brand guidelines. So instead of a gallery, here are the companies that renewed — and what they say when asked.
Real estate
Aureon Residences
Hospitality
Halcyon House Group
Finance
Orbital Pay
Retail
Noor & Vine
We’d used four suppliers for what IDEASfolio does with one team. The launch film, the site and the sales deck finally look like the same company — and the handover pack meant our in-house designer could take it from there.
They talk about deadlines like engineers and about craft like a design studio. In three years of retained work they’ve missed one date, and they told us a week before it slipped.
Next intake
Tell us what you’re launching.
Send a short brief and you’ll get a scoped reply — approach, timeline and a fixed price — within two working days. If we’re not the right studio for it, we’ll say so and point you somewhere better.