Field notes

Notes from the studio.

Plain English, written by the people doing the work. Brand, web, marketing, sales and automation. Mostly what we wish we'd known sooner.

This week
Why we stopped naming new colors and started naming roles instead.
7 min read · Branding
N°01 / Recent

The last few things shipped.

Speed is a feature

Why we treat page speed like a brand value, not a bug fix.

Slow stores quietly bleed conversion. The tactics we lock in before a single product photo gets loaded.

Sam N.9 min · Mar 2026
The boring agent

The boring agent always wins. What we automate first, and why.

Most "AI roadmaps" we see start with the wrong tasks. A short list of the unglamorous ones that pay back fastest.

Lina V.8 min · Mar 2026
Stop testing
headlines

Stop testing headlines. Start testing offers.

Variant testing on words moves nothing for most brands. What to test instead, and how to set the bar for shipping a winner.

Maya O.6 min · Mar 2026
Pipelines
tell on you

Your pipeline is telling on you. Read the stage decay.

Where deals stall is where the real story is. A two-screen view we hand every founder we work with.

Rami T.7 min · Feb 2026
One mark,
three moods

One mark, three moods. Designing identity for editorial, retail and tech all at once.

A walk-through of how we structure typography and color so a single brand can feel right in three different contexts without breaking.

Jordan R.10 min · Feb 2026
Weekly reviews
that don't lie

Weekly reviews that don't lie. The format we run for every client.

Three columns, one number, no waffle. Why the meeting takes thirty minutes and replaces three other meetings.

Yara H.5 min · Feb 2026
Bilingual
by default

Bilingual by default. What we wish every site had on day one.

Arabic and English in the same system without bolt-on chaos. A short tour of the choices that pay back forever.

Sam N.8 min · Jan 2026
Creative kill rules

Creative kill rules. How we keep ad accounts from going stale.

A small set of rules, written down, that decide what gets paused, refreshed or scaled. Stops the weekly debate.

Maya O.6 min · Jan 2026
AI that
writes back

When AI replies for you, the brand voice has to be in writing.

A short framework for documenting tone of voice in a way an agent can actually follow. Sample tokens included.

Lina V.9 min · Jan 2026
Slow news, slow notes

One short note, first Friday of the month.

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