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Journal

What we are building, what we learned, and what broke.

Do not launch with fewer than five

An index with two entries reads as abandoned. Two in-progress items plus one press mention fills the module, and in-progress is what makes a small journal look alive.

A Montreal skincare brand, rebuilt on headless.Three weeks in. The interesting problem is not the storefront, it is the 4,000 SKU variant matrix and what it does to collection filtering.
An apparel subscription, re-platformed without losing a renewal.The migration everyone is scared of: moving live subscriptions between billing systems while nobody misses a charge.
What running our own store taught us about Shopify B2B.Six things we only learned by having to explain a stockout to a real customer. Drawn from our own shop, and the most linkable thing on this site.
Why we do not use page builders.They make the first month faster and every month after that slower. Here is the arithmetic.
AI-assisted, human-reviewed.How a team this size ships this much, and the three places we deliberately slow down.
Pencilz+Friends, featured in Grid.A short profile on building a studio that runs its own products, and why that changes the client work.
In progress | Winter 2026
In progress | Winter 2026
Case note | Winter 2026
Case note | Autumn 2025
Note | Autumn 2025
Press | Autumn 2025