Client Engagement
Post-mortemArtdantech
A post-mortem on building our own studio site — the constraints we imposed, the trade-offs we made, and what we'd do differently. The site you're reading is the case study.
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Client Engagements
The work, the decisions, and what actually moved.
Every project on this page is a paid engagement we delivered for a real business under real constraints. Each case study tells you what was broken, what we chose to do about it, and what happened after — in enough detail that a serious buyer can form a judgment without a sales call.
Why most agency portfolios tell you nothing
Visit any agency website and you'll see the same three things: hero shots of landing pages, a wall of client logos, and a single sentence about each project that could have been written by anyone about anything. Beautiful? Sometimes. Useful if you're about to hand over a six-figure budget? Not even close.
We wrote our case studies to answer the questions a serious buyer actually asks in the first ten minutes of research. What was the real problem behind the brief. What we tried. What we argued against. What we'd do differently. If you're evaluating us right now, these pages carry more signal than any sales deck — and they carry it in a form you can forward to your CTO without a translator.
The real brief
What the client thought they needed, what they actually needed, and the honest gap between the two.
The calls we made
Architecture, stack, design language, copy tone — every non-obvious decision explained, with the alternatives we rejected.
What moved, including what didn't
Conversion, traffic, speed, lead quality. And when something didn't move, we say so — because the silence is what most portfolios hide.
Start with these. Fifteen minutes, real judgment formed.
If you only read three case studies on this site, read these three. Each one shows a different muscle — how we frame a problem, how we decide what to build, and how we defend the decisions we made when a client pushed back. By the time you've finished them, you'll know whether our brain matches yours.
Auditable craft, separated from client work
Engineering reference builds
A handful of public-brief builds we keep deliberately separate from paid engagements. They exist because some engineering disciplines are hard to demonstrate from client work alone — API design, performance ceilings, motion craft, security thinking. If your prospective project leans on any of those, this is where the depth is on display.
If this looks like the way you want to work, let's find out if we're a fit.
Forty-five minutes. Bring the messy version of the problem, not the clean one — the clean one is rarely the real one. We'll tell you in the call whether we're the right team for it. If we're not, we'll say so, and where to look instead.
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