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We design brands for AI startups that outgrew their AI-generated logo. Clients raised $430M+. @coderabbitai, @hacktronai, @zeddotdev + more. Calls below.

Houston, TX
Joined July 2020
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Our 2026 reel. 13 (live) brands in 91 seconds Pick your favourite!
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Absolutely huge
OpenAI has announced a partnership with Hacktron to investigate vulnerabilities in its systems. Our researchers will work with @OpenAI's engineers to prioritize testing of connections with third-party services, with broader frontier-model access through Daybreak Red. We're excited to deepen our partnership with OpenAI, combining our offensive security expertise with their frontier models to help secure OpenAI and the broader software ecosystem. openai.com/index/partnering-…
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Before I started my own business I did get ALL of my jobs from LinkedIn, except the last EM role which was a direct referral. I’m not sure how it is in 2026 for securing FTE jobs but my experience with it has been awful lately, just full of AI posts with worse AI replies I owe my entire business to X, I personally haven’t had a single opportunity from LI as a founder (although I know many have)
linkedin has gotten people more opportunities than everyone in the world can count. X is great, but mostly a battlefield of people trying to look and sound smart. those who truly are make up a small fraction, and people here don’t like you as much as you think. 😊
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My friend Harry back in the UK lives the dream Trains, coaches, and competes BJJ full time 😮‍💨 Just a reminder that you don’t need to make $10k a month on the internet to live a happy and fulfilling life with the people you love (Go support him cause he’s so excited when he gets views) youtu.be/FUglNir6uls
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Y'all print off your clients completed brand work to check the CMYK values before you ship them over ...right?
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After being pestered by Miles on Slack for months I finally tried Nova I’ve now cancelled Attio, Linear, and Granola in favour of using Nova as my sole studio software Miles is a friend but Nova is genuinely very very good (Not paid, I’m a paying customer)
we're starting to see traction with agencies on @trynovaio. A few reasons: > Nova saves teams $100-300/m on software e.g. attio, granola & linear > Our project kanban lets you share a board with clients > Nova's call recorder automatically updates their CRM, tickets & schedules follow up calls If you are an agency owner, dm me and i'll add you to our private beta
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A few posters from a current in-progress branding project
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Some logomarks we drew this year
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These are all live projects, there’s still around 5 that are not public/live
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No Adobe in the studio, every asset gets created in Affinity!
AI Engineer New York was a blast! Loved all the fun chats and the chance to demo and discuss Delta in person. See you next time, @aiDotEngineer!
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A few posters from a current in-progress branding project
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A few posters from a current in-progress branding project
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Our 2026 reel. 13 (live) brands in 91 seconds Pick your favourite!
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Favourite brief line of all time: "Keep it simple but make sure it stands out" Sure thing boss
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I think when you’re at the start of your freelancing or studio journey, you need to do whatever is necessary to get a prospect on a call in front of you That could be posting pricing, that could be not posting pricing But maybe you post your pricing and it’s too low or too high, maybe you don’t post your pricing and that makes people suspicious that they will be stung on the call It’s a very difficult area to navigate but I think your goal should be to get people on a call with you so you can close them
I think a lot of agency owners and freelancers see people like this posting their prices openly and think it's the right move for them too. What they're not seeing is that a lot of the people doing this already have their funnel fully figured out... they have more demand than they need, and a solid reputation for being very good at what they do. So they don't need to sell as much as they need to screen. They need to make sure they're not wasting time on a bunch of leads who aren't already properly qualified. For them, putting the price out there just gives a stronger signal and gets the right people to sign up. But if you don't have enough leads, or that solid reputation and momentum online, putting your prices out there has the opposite effect. Fewer leads -> fewer sales calls -> fewer chances to bring in clients, get results and build up your agency. So my recommendation -> until you've nailed everything else, from your positioning to your offer, content, funnels and sales calls, don't put your prices online. I think it's a big mistake, and in 90% of cases it's costing people leads they don't even know they're missing. There are always exceptions... but I'd take your prices down until everything else is taken care of.
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Ours is a repo now design[.]md, AGENTS[.]md, tokens.json, every logo colourway as SVG, and a next steps markdown so nothing gets forgotten on the rollout The Figma file is till there too because I'd rather hand it over than be asked for it later
A founder asked me how we hand over a brand now. "Is it a Figma file?" Rarely. A Figma file is where a brand goes to die the day the designer leaves. We hand over a system the client's team can generate from. On brand, without us.
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When iPad? NOW iPad. Affinity for iPad is live 🔥 One app to craft it all, from anywhere at all: sketch, design, edit, lay out, then edit again, all on iPad. This isn’t a cut down companion, this is desktop power at your fingertips. Download now: affin.link/affinityforipadap…
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Just pre ordered GTA6 at GameStop and get it a week early + “something physical “ 😇
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it's seems it's just pre-load a week early but the gamestop worker very clearly hooked me in by saying I would "get it a week early, on the 11th" so time will tell I suppose
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