Creative Agency
Kiln
Cult-object brands, editorial weight.
A confident independent-studio theme. Cream paper, terracotta accent, Fraunces display and case-study-led structure.
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Independent · Est. 2019
Brands that behave like cult objects.
An independent studio building identity, packaging and digital for makers who refuse to look like everyone else.
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What you get
Identity systems
Logos, typography, voice, motion, built so your team can extend them without us.
Packaging
Print-ready, sourcing-aware, photographed on a real shelf before it ships.
Digital
Sites that load fast and read well. Built on the BRAIN platform so the work keeps compounding.
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Buttons & links, styled to this theme
Every action across the site pulls from the same palette, radius and typography tokens. Drop these into any module.
Ready when you are
A short call beats a long brief.
Tell us what you're making.
Design system
What makes this one feel different.
Palette
Background
#F4EFE6
Surface
#FFFFFF
Foreground
#1A1714
Muted
#7A726A
Primary
#E2552B
Accent
#1A1714
Typography · Fraunces / Inter
Display
Brands that behave like cult objects.
Body
Body copy lives in Inter at 1rem with comfortable line-height. The pairing is tuned for long-form reading.
Caption
Used for eyebrows, meta and form labels.
Layout rhythm
- Density
- spacious
- Section pad (top/bottom)
- 7rem
- Hero pad
- 10rem
- Grid gap
- 3rem
- Line height
- 1.75
- Border radius
- sharp (0px)
- Header style
- minimal
- Footer style
- minimal
Section library
What's in the sample site
Every block here is a module in BRAIN's shared section library. Reorder, remove or add more.
- 01
Hero, split with image
hero_split
- 02
Logo strip
logos
- 03
image_full
image_full
- 04
Features grid
features
- 05
gallery
gallery
- 06
Lead capture form
lead_form
- 07
Button library
button_showcase
- 08
Call-to-action (split, two buttons)
cta_split
- 09
Call-to-action band
cta
BRAIN behaviours
How the site keeps earning its keep.
Kiln ships with these modules switched on. Each one drafts work for you to approve.
Research
Watches the world, competitors, news, search demand, source material.
Pulls notable indie launches weekly to inform new pitch references.
Intelligence
Reads the analytics signal and proposes structural improvements.
Identifies which case study pages drive RFPs vs just admiration.
Nurture
Keeps the relationship warm with timely, on-brand follow-ups.
Sends a curated journal entry monthly to prospects who haven't replied.
Recommended integrations
Pre-wired for this industry.
Same engine, different colour
Variants with this layout.
These themes share Kiln's structure, header, footer and rhythm, with a different palette and typeface.
v3.0, out now
Observability for systems that don't fit a dashboard.
Beacon traces, profiles and logs across distributed services without the storage bill of a hyperscaler.
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What you get
Drop-in OpenTelemetry
One env var, every language. Auto-instrumentation for HTTP, gRPC, queues and DBs.
Sampled, not sampled out
Tail-based sampling keeps the rare bad request and discards the noise, no surprises at 3am.
Cost you can predict
Per-host, not per-event. Storage tiers down to S3 after seven days, replayable on demand.
We cut observability spend 80% and stopped guessing at root cause.
Jordan Hsu, Staff SRE, Northvane
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Ready when you are
Stop paying per log line.
Self-host in 10 minutes, or use Beacon Cloud.
Beacon
Developer Tools · JetBrains Mono / Inter
Mono-led, docs-adjacent, terminal-warm.
Workflow builder for ops teams
If/then/else without the wedding planner.
Relay turns your tools into a single visual workflow. No code, no plumbing, no surprise bills.
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What you get
Visual builder
Drag steps, branch on data, retry on failure. Every run has a trace you can share.
Real testing
Replay any production run as a test case. CI integration optional.
Per-run pricing
Free up to 1,000 runs/mo. Predictable after that, no per-task fees.
We replaced four point tools with Relay and trained the whole ops team in an afternoon.
Tomás Reyes, Head of Ops, Brunswick & Co
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Every action across the site pulls from the same palette, radius and typography tokens. Drop these into any module.
Ready when you are
Workflows your team will actually maintain.
Free forever for teams of five.
Relay
Workflow Automation · Space Grotesk / Inter
Bright canvas, friendly, demo-led.
Roasted in Hackney · since 2014
Single origin, roasted for the way you actually brew.
Ember roasts in small batches and ships within 48 hours. Subscriptions for V60, espresso or both.
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What you get
Roasted to brew
Each bag tells you which method it was dialled in for, and a starting recipe.
Subscriptions that adapt
Pause, swap or skip. We rotate origins so you're never bored.
Trade & wholesale
Cafés in three counties brew with us. Net-30, sample boxes, training included.
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Ready when you are
Coffee that arrives on the right Wednesday.
Free shipping over £40.
Ember
Coffee Roaster · Fraunces / Inter
Warm sand, artisan, retail-ready.
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We build brands meant to outlive their founders.
Foundry is a brand consultancy for category-defining companies, twenty-year horizons, ten-week sprints.
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What you get
Strategy
Positioning, narrative, naming. Workshops that produce a deck founders read twice.
Identity
Visual systems engineered for thirty years of extension, not three campaigns.
Activation
Launch films, sites, environments. We hand off, we don't disappear.
Foundry didn't redesign us. They made the company we'd been pretending to be.
Alaia Bennett, Founder, Solène
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A brand worth inheriting.
We take on six clients a year.
Foundry
Brand & Design Studio · Cormorant / Karla
Noir, gold, considered.
Product · Brand · Build
We design and ship the software our clients used to outsource.
Vista is a product studio that takes designs to production. We don't hand over Figma files, we deploy.
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What you get
Discovery in 2 weeks
Audit, define, prototype. You leave with a roadmap and one buildable thing.
Design + engineering
One pod, one timeline. Designers commit code; engineers stay in Figma.
Production handover
Real infra, real tests, real docs. Your team takes over without rewriting.
By the numbers
Recent work
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Every action across the site pulls from the same palette, radius and typography tokens. Drop these into any module.
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Stop the Figma → JIRA → silence loop.
Talk to us about your next ship.
Vista
Digital Product Studio · Archivo Black / Inter
Brutalist pop, loud, demo-ready.
Ready when you are
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