What it looked like from inside
Six studios, told as stories rather than case-study templates. Every number is one a studio gave me. Nothing is estimated, nothing is dramatised, and no studio is named without written permission.
They did everything they were told. It cost €15,000 and brought nothing.A European studio spent five months on a consultant and paid ads. The ads ran. The consultant delivered. Not one client came.
He kept investing in better images. The images were never the problem.Félix Nieto’s work holds up next to anyone’s in his market. That was exactly why he could not see what was blocking him.
It felt like driving through dense fogVid Benišek’s craft was never in question and his days were full. What was missing was harder to name.
His clients were at home. He wanted developers in the UKEight years in, good at the work, and one channel that stopped working the moment it crossed a border.
Priced for the home market, selling to the worldA studio that had already paid for coaching, and got advice that only worked in the country they were trying to leave.
€250K in revenue, and still sweating every monthA strong portfolio, a skilled team, real revenue, and no way to say where the next project comes from.
And your studio is not in here, which is the point
Nothing identifying a studio gets published without their approval, and everything on this site is generalised so that no studio is recognisable. It works the other way round too. When you start, you get what 103 studios and more than 300 diagnoses have already taught me, and none of them are named either.
Six studios, and the same hour sits at the start of every one of them: somebody finally looked at the business instead of the images.
Have your own studio looked at €107, thirty minutes, credited if you continue. You leave with a report including what is blocking you, a 30 day action plan to fix it, and a 90 day roadmap.