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We shape brands, products, platforms, and ventures.

An independent strategy, design, and technology studio. From strategy to launch.

A field of eight sectors, each holding a frame of work, with the wordmark registered across it.

01 The problem

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.

02 The solution

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

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

03 How we work

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

04 The founders

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

Together, the founders have built for Apple · Louis Vuitton · MINI · Lincoln · Nike · Lego · Siemens · Allianz · and others, across two decades.

05 Offering

01 Transform a brand

Identity, narrative, and the commerce experiences which carry them. The brand people choose, and the storefront which converts the choice.

02 Build a product or platform

Digital products and the platforms beneath them, from the first pilot to the shipped build. One team from strategy to launch, no handoffs.

03 Create a new venture

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.

06 Featured work

Catalyst · Industrial AI · 2026

Ten weeks, designed to end in a scale decision.

An inbound engine for industrial AI.

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

Precision over volume. A next-generation influencer platform.

Product and platform in one build.

One build Product · platform
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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 Pre-seed and seed, raised on the product
See the work
Intelligent Core film opening frame: an offshore platform and a gold data block composed on a blueprint grid, captioned Information System

07 The sectors

08 The footprint

Under 0.5 MB This page weighed itself: under 0.05 g of CO₂e per view, Sustainable Web Design model v4. Most of the web will not tell you what it costs.

09 The conversation

Tell us what you're trying to change, build, or launch. We'll tell you quickly whether we're the right team.

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