Buildandrunyourstudio.
Strategic intelligence. Professional delivery. Client experience you control.
Wren & Partners
Brand & Digital Agency • 3 active projects
You design incredible client work.
Then run your business from a spreadsheet.
Your clients get polished deliverables. Your business gets Notion docs and hope.
Duct tape stack
Notion for CRM. Google Docs for proposals. Stripe for invoices. 7 tools that don't talk to each other.
Pricing paralysis
You know you should charge more. But the number that leaves your mouth is always smaller than the one in your head.
Identity confusion
Designer? Developer? Business owner? You're switching roles so fast you don't know which one you actually are.
Feast–famine
Pipeline full one month. Empty the next. That anxiety never quite goes away.
The gap between your craft and your business is the gap between $3k projects and $10k partnerships.
From one-time projects
to strategic partnerships
Stop competing on price. Start competing on intelligence.
- “Designer who codes”
- Competing on price
- Proposals in Google Docs
- 30% win rate
- $3–5k one-time projects
- Strategic studio owner
- Competing on intelligence
- Branded portal + strategic reports
- 60–75% win rate
- $8–12k projects + retainers
Everything your studio needs to win, run, and deliver.
Win projects with data, not just designs
AI-powered competitive audits and market research delivered before the pitch meeting. Walk in with intelligence that justifies premium pricing.
One source of truth instead of seven tools
Projects, tasks, clients, invoices. Everything your studio needs in one place, designed by someone who actually runs a studio.
Look like a studio from day one
Professional client portal with your branding. Your clients see a polished studio experience — even if you're solo.
From"designerwhocodes"tostrategicstudioowner.
You've got three competing identities: designer, developer, business owner. Salt Core unifies them. Whether you're writing TypeScript or prompting Cursor, you're running a studio that delivers measurable results.
The code ships. The clients pay. That's what makes it real.
Your studio, ready to run.
Built for studios that value craft over chaos.
Salt Core started as an internal tool at SALT Studio. Every feature solves a real problem we hit running client work.