FOR DESIGN STUDIOS
Your creative never travels unpaid.
For branding, UI/UX, and illustration studios: prospects evaluate protected boards, every revision round carries a price tag, and source files hand off only when the money lands.
DELIVERABLE ESCROW
- brand_book_v4.pdfIN ESCROW
- logo_suite.aiIN ESCROW
- ui_kit.figIN ESCROW
- preview_board.pdfSHARED · PROTECTED
SOUND FAMILIAR?
The concepts wowed them. Then, silence.
A prospect takes the concept round and disappears — no payment, no recourse, and your ideas resurface under someone else's brand.
Round nine is free, apparently
“Tiny tweak” culture quietly converts your margin into unpaid labor. Unlimited revisions are where studios go to die.
Final delivery is when clients go quiet
A deposit covers half your risk. The back half of every project rides on faith — and handoff day is exactly when inboxes stop answering.
HOW IT WORKS FOR YOU
From brief to handoff, round by round
Scope
AI shapes your brief into concept rounds, deliverables, and a revision policy with teeth. Acceptance funds the project.
Design on the record
Versions and round history build a running account of what was asked and what was delivered.
Boards, not files
Prospects and clients evaluate protected presentation boards — real judgment, zero exposure of your working files.
The handoff
Approval triggers it: source files to them, payment to you, in a single motion.
THE DIFFERENCE
Concept rounds with a lock on them
Your thinking is the product — so it stays protected until it's paid for. Boards carry the pitch; the source stays in escrow; and when the client approves, files and money change hands together.
- Pitch rounds shown as protected boards — ideas can't walk away
- Every round beyond the package is priced before the artboard opens
- Handoff and payment are one event — no hostage files, no faith
- A round-by-round record ends “what am I paying for?” forever
ORGANIZATIONAL INSIGHT
Know what's working. Fix what isn't.
What's working, what's not
Wins, risks and drift across every team and engagement — surfaced before they cost you.
Meetings, already prepared
Standups and weekly reviews arrive pre-written from real delivery activity. Walk in with the brief, or skip the meeting.
Your keys, your dial
Bring your own AI keys and choose how much runs — reports only, or full delivery intelligence. No markup, no lock-in.
THIS WEEK AT YOUR DEV SHOP · OPS BRIEF
AI-DRAFTEDWORKING WELL
Sprint velocity up 12% — Team Atlas ahead of plan two sprints running
NEEDS ATTENTION
Review turnaround slipping on Project Kepler — 2.1 days average, trending up
SUGGESTED IMPROVEMENT
Rebalance review load — two seniors carry 70% of reviews this month
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PLUGS INTO YOUR STACK
Keep your tools. Add the proof.
Rounds and reviews stay in your flow. Northn mirrors milestones from your project tool and attaches watermarked previews to the exact round they prove — no parallel process to maintain.
All connect over their public APIs. Tell us what you run — founding-partner integrations ship first.
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STRAIGHT ANSWERS
What studio principals ask
Can a prospect run off with round one?
They only ever hold protected boards. The working files — AI, Fig, PSD, fonts — sit in escrow until payment releases. Walking away buys them nothing usable.
What does the client actually see?
A clean review space: boards for each round, the revision history, and one approve button. They never worry about hostage files — and you never worry about silence.
What about round four, five, six…?
Rounds beyond the package become priced additions the client accepts before you open the file. Indecision starts costing the right party.
Is this a gig platform for designers?
No — there are no listings, no commissions on creative work, no strangers. Studios use Northn directly with clients they already have, keeping full control of the account and the credit.
No more spec work and no more free round nine — your designers' rates hold because the process holds.
Stop giving concepts away to prospects who vanish.
Get paid for every round.
Bring one brand project — see the whole flow before you commit.