Who we are

We are designers,
engineers, and strategists.

Founded in 2019, Prism is a studio of 14 specialists. We're not a generalist agency — every person here was hired for a specific depth of craft, and that's what our clients pay for.


The Big Blue Bear sculpture at the Colorado Convention Center, Denver
By the numbers

Five years.
One way of working.

Every number here is tied to a real client outcome. We track them because they hold us accountable — not because they look good on a slide.

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Projects delivered
across 14 industries
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Client retention
after first project
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Senior specialists —
no juniors, no offshore
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Average time from
brief to launch
What we believe

Principles that don't
bend under pressure.

These aren't aspirational values on a wall. They're the rules we use when a project gets difficult, a deadline slips, or a client pushes for something we don't think is right.

We measure success by what changes for our clients, not by what we shipped. A beautiful site that doesn't convert is a failure. We hold ourselves to the numbers — conversion rate, organic traffic, revenue per visitor — and report honestly, even when disappointing.

Every project has defined success metrics agreed before day one. If we're hitting them, great. If not, we say so immediately and adjust.

Measurement Accountability

We take on fewer projects than we could. Every client gets a senior team, not juniors managed from a distance. We cap client intake to protect quality. At any given moment we run four to six active projects — never more.

This isn't a constraint. It's a choice. Quality requires time and attention, and we protect both as part of how we run.

Quality Senior-only

You see everything we're building, in real time. Staging environments are live from week one. You have a direct line to engineers, not an account manager filtering the conversation. No reveals. No surprises.

If something is behind, we say so before you have to ask. If a strategy isn't working, we tell you and propose an alternative.

Transparency No surprises

Slow projects almost always stem from unclear briefs. We invest heavily in the strategy phase — sometimes more than clients expect — because every hour of clarity upfront saves three hours of revision later. We ask hard questions early so we don't ask them in week six.

Strategy-first Efficiency

Everything we build is designed to be maintained, extended, and owned by you after we leave. No spaghetti code, no undocumented design decisions, no vendor lock-in for its own sake. Every codebase is documented. Every design system ships with usage guidelines.

Scalability Documentation
Why it matters

The model is the
differentiator.

Most agencies are set up to maximise revenue per client. We're set up to maximise results per client. The two are not the same thing.

Traditional agency
Junior teams managed by a distant senior
Account managers as the single point of contact
Hourly billing — incentivised to run long
Design, dev, and strategy in separate silos
Success measured by deliverables, not outcomes
12–24 week timelines as standard
Prism
Senior-only — the person you meet is on your project
Direct Slack access to designers and engineers
Fixed-scope, fixed-price — no meter running
Embedded cross-functional team from day one
Success measured by revenue, traffic, and conversion
Brief to launch in nine weeks, staged rollout
Our story

Built as the
anti-pattern.

We got tired of watching talented people bury the work under the process.

In 2019, Prism's founder had spent a decade working inside agencies — watching the same pattern repeat. Talented people buried under account management overhead. Clients paying for meetings instead of work. Deliverables shipped without any real accountability to outcomes.

The brief was simple: build the agency we always wanted to work at. Senior-only. Small enough that everyone on the team knows every client. Structured around outcomes, not outputs. No layers between the people doing the work and the people paying for it.

Five years and 180+ projects later, the model still works. We know because the clients who came in for one project keep coming back for the next one.

2019
Prism founded
Studio launched with 3 people and a deliberately narrow service offering. First clients came from referrals within 60 days.
2020
Marketing practice added
Clients kept asking us to run their campaigns after we built their sites. We hired two performance marketers and launched paid media and SEO.
2021
50th project delivered
Hit 50 projects with a 100% referral pipeline. Invested in tooling and the Prism playbook that now governs every engagement.
2023
Team reaches 14
Grew to 14 specialists — the deliberate ceiling. Every new hire was senior. The rule: decline a project rather than hire to meet demand.
2024 — now
180+ projects, same model
Still senior-only. Still fixed-price. Still 94% client retention. The anti-pattern continues to work.