Stripey Cat Studios
A studio of consequence

We build the inevitable.

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What we do

We create products that push the boundaries. Because we understand the boundaries, having spent our careers testing them.

  • Product prototypes
  • MVP design & build
  • Scaling your product
  • Service design & delivery
  • Branding & marketing
  • Website strategy, design & delivery
  • Employee tools
  • Operating dashboards
  • AI agents & tools
  • Process automation
  • Content & training solutions
  • Commercial & sales strategy
  • Research & analysis
  • Grants & funding submissions
  • Business architecture

Before our time, in the age of monoliths.

You get what you get, and you don't get upset.

The age of SaaS.

Much more fun. We got to configure stuff. Everybody gets their own version of the same thing. But we're all still building what's on the box. And you'd best follow the instructions, or you'll end up with Homer Simpson's car.

We're what comes next.

We're done with the box, and we don't need instructions. We look at what's in front of us and build what you need, nothing more, nothing less. Some of it we make, some we buy in, some doesn't exist yet, so we invent it. AI makes it possible to build with the rigour that used to take a whole design and engineering team.

A faded 1950s photo: a girl putting lipstick on the cheap toy dinosaur she was given, which she has dressed in a red doll's dress
An 80s snapshot: a kid holding up the pink and purple dinosaur princess she built from toy bricks
The dinosaur princess made real, skipping hand in hand with the girl under a rainbow

Intelligence, but not artificial. Real.

Where we came from

We've been around a while. Worked in corporates, scale-ups and startups across dozens of industries. Leading, managing, and (always) doing. And along the way we've learned all the things… product, process, UX, tech, commercials, financials, data, and the rest.

The tiger team

We don't think of ourselves as 'founders', that's not even a real word. We're just a couple of mates who work really well together. We've hired each other more than a few times over the years, but you reach a point in your career where you've got a choice of where you work (and who with). So we've pulled together the half-dozen people we'd hire in an instant, the small group of people who kept in touch over the years because they knew they'd do something like this one day. Today is one day, and the Tiger team have assembled.

Why we're doing this

We've had startups of our own (failed, won, failed again, winning now), and always have a handful of others we support. The thing is, we've realised we enjoy helping other people more than building our own startups. There's more variety in it, and it feels good to take a monkey off somebody else's back. And now we have AI, everything has changed. Game on.

One-liners are for consultants and startups.

ac·nes·tis

/akˈniːstɪs/ | noun

  1. zoology The part of the back between the shoulder blades, the one spot an animal cannot reach to scratch itself.
  2. business The process that nobody owns, the problem that nobody can solve, the itch that nobody can reach.

From Koine Greek áknēstis, “spine”. In English since 1743.

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