Studio
How we work
Six stages, each with an artefact the partner can hold. Onboarding the next partner touches content and data, never code.1
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Lead
Every engagement starts as a lead in the studio's backoffice, with its research and its design directions kept beside it.1
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Proposal
A priced document, prepared for one partner and served behind an access code. Every claim in it traces to a source, and the sources are listed inside the document.13
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Three directions
Three working sites, not three pictures, so the choice is made on real pages at real density. Where a partner's own data does not exist yet, sample content stands in — and says so on the page, so that real and sample are never mistaken for each other.23
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Gated review
The directions are reviewed on a gated host, with one reviewer code per partner and a separate one for the priced proposal, so the wider team can review the designs without seeing the price. The partner picks one and the decision goes on the record.2
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Build
The winning direction's repository becomes the partner's site. Nothing is load-bearing on JavaScript, nothing loads from a third party, and every figure on a page is read from a dated source file rather than typed in.34
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Portal
The partner's own door: proposals, invoices and the engagement's record, behind their own sign-in, which they keep.1
What we do not do
- Invent a figure, a testimonial or a logo wall. Where there is no source the page says less.3
- Name a partner without written consent on file.5
- Add motion that cannot name its purpose, or a script that cannot justify itself over CSS.4
The same rules apply to this site. It is the first thing we built under them for ourselves.
Sources
- Syntax Space Studio — backoffice/PLAN.md §1 (the backoffice plan of record, internal). Accessed September 2026.
- Syntax Space Studio — docs/architecture — the mocks-portal record, the first instance of the per-partner gated review (internal). Accessed September 2026.
- Syntax Space Studio — CLAUDE.md (the studio’s working rules, internal). Accessed September 2026.
- Syntax Space Studio — docs/architecture/interface-doctrine.md (internal). Accessed September 2026.
- Syntax Space Studio — docs/architecture/www-public-site-plan.md (this site’s plan of record, internal). Accessed September 2026.