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Ambition,
given form.

An independent strategy, design, and technology studio. We build brands, products, and platforms that markets actually choose.

Ship it faster. Post more. Automate everything. Launch the campaign. Chase the metric. Add the feature. Feed the algorithm. Growth, growth, growth. Faster. Louder. Everywhere. Now.

Most of it lands nowhere.

We build in the other order. Direction first. Then form.

Chihuahuan Desert plain outside Marfa, Texas at first light
Marfa · Chihuahuan Desert

Strategy finds the fit. Then we build it. One team, start to launch. Every engagement is founder-led. That is the point.

Robert Girvin, co-founder of Formist Studio
Robert GirvinFounder · LinkedIn
Tim Rowe, co-founder of Formist Studio
Tim RoweFounder · LinkedIn

Robert has built for Apple · Louis Vuitton · MINI · Lincoln · Nike · Lego · Siemens · Allianz · and others, across two decades.

Brand and commerce01
Identity, narrative, and the commerce experiences that carry them. The brand people choose, and the storefront that converts the choice.
Products and platforms02
Digital products and the platforms beneath them, from the first pilot to the shipped build. One team from strategy to launch, no handoffs.
Ventures and new business03
New businesses built through the studio, from the market thesis to the working company. When the fit is real, we build the company with you.

AI runs through all of it. It is part of the structure.

Catalyst · Industrial AI · 2026 · Studio work

Ten weeks, designed to end in a scale decision.

An inbound engine for industrial AI.

10 weeksBaseline to scale plan, against the clock
See the work
Catalyst program homepage: prove one workflow under real conditions
HYDP · Creator economy · 2025 · Studio work

Precision over volume. A next-generation influencer platform.

Product and platform in one build.

One buildProduct · platform
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HYDP creator platform interface
Intelligent Core · Studio venture

A venture built through the studio: strategy, brand, and product.

1.2M sensor signals a day. Failures called 48 hours early. £2.7M raised.

See the work
Intelligent Core film opening frame: an offshore platform and a gold data block composed on a blueprint grid, captioned Information System
Luxury, fashion, and beautyLouis Vuitton, Paris Automotive and mobilityMINI, Munich · Lincoln, San Francisco Health and medicalSiemens Healthineers, Boston Retail and consumerWater Street Collective, London · Nike, Frankfurt · LEGO, Berlin · Bosch Power Tools Industry and energyPurestream, Midland · Intelligent Core, London and Houston · studio work Financial servicesAllianz, Munich Media and entertainmentHYDP, London and New York · Thales, Irvine Defense and securityDual-use platforms · command, coordination, and field software

Where it says studio work, it is ours. The rest is the founders' record, work they led before Formist.

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