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The five-person wall: why growing design firms suddenly feel harder to run
There’s a moment almost every design firm principal describes the same way. The work is good, clients are coming, you’ve hired — and yet ...
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Operations
The true cost of procurement chaos (it's not the late sofa)
Every design firm has a procurement horror story — the sofa that arrived after the reveal, the sconces discontinued mid-order, the freigh...
Profitability
Stop guessing your flat fees: pricing design work with data you already have
Ask a room of design principals how they price a flat fee and you’ll hear some version of the same method: estimate the hours, add a cush...