How we build · own ventures and partner builds

One way of building, whatever the market.

Software testing, a mood diary, medicinal mushrooms. The markets could not be more different. The way we build a company is the same each time: find a real need, build the product, run the business.

Two ways we build.

Most of what we do is our own. Some of it is with partners. The team and the way of working are the same.

01 · Most of the time

Own ventures.

We find the need, build the company and run it. Every company gets its own name, brand and market, and Adriato stays behind it. Qadrillion, Reflct and Fungyu all started this way.

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02 · When there is room

Partner builds.

We build a company together with you. You bring the market and the ambition. We bring the team and a way of building that has done it before. How we work together is set case by case, as co-founders or as builders.

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The process

From an idea to a running company.

Three stages, the same for our own companies and for partner builds. Months for the first two. Years for the third.

01

Find.

Every company starts with a need we can see up close. We talk to the people who have it, test the idea cheaply and decide whether it deserves a company.

Market researchCustomer interviewsBusiness modelPrototype
02

Build.

A small team ships the first product in months, not years. Name, brand, product and first customers, all at once, so the company is real from the start.

Naming and brandProduct and engineeringLaunchFirst customers
03

Run.

We operate what we build. Growth, operations and the daily work of a real company, for as long as it deserves to exist.

GrowthOperationsFinanceHiring
What we bring

What a company gets from the studio.

The team that built and runs our own companies, on the new one from day one.

Strategy and validation

Market research, customer interviews and a business model before the first line of code.

Product and engineering

Web, mobile and AI products, built by a team that has shipped them before.

Brand and design

Naming, identity and a website that can stand on its own from day one.

Growth and go-to-market

Positioning, launch, channels and the first hundred customers.

Commerce and fulfilment

Storefronts, supply and delivery for products you can hold in your hand.

Company operations

Setting up the company, finance, tooling and the routines that keep it running.

What we believe

Five things we hold to.

Written down so we can be held to them, by partners and by ourselves.

01

We build to keep.

We are not building companies to hand over in eighteen months. We start them to run them, and everything about how we work follows from that.

02

Real before big.

A first paying customer teaches more than any plan. We start small enough to launch and real enough to charge for.

03

One studio, many markets.

Software, a consumer app, food. The markets differ. Finding a need, building a product and running a business do not.

04

Names of their own.

Each company gets its own name, brand and market. It should stand without the studio in front of it.

05

Plain over clever.

The simplest version that works usually wins. We choose it, and we say why.

Partner builds

Build with us.

Own ventures come first. When there is room, we build a company with a partner the same way we build our own: same team, same way of working, your market. Tell us about the market, the idea and where you are with it.

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