How we run projects
We built the system we run on
One place for the proposal, the contract, the project and the invoice.
Margin
What it is
Our own software
Margin is the system every Grid project runs through. We designed it, we built it, and we use it every day. Nothing off the shelf, nothing bolted together.
One line, start to finish
A company becomes a client, a proposal becomes a contract, a contract becomes a project with tasks, time and a schedule, and the project becomes an invoice. One tool, one record of what was agreed.
Built for project work
Not a general notes app or a board of cards. Margin is made for work that goes onboard, contract, project, task, invoice, which is how a studio actually runs.
Made the way we make everything
Designed in Figma, built in React and Next.js, by the same people who design and build for our clients. It is the clearest demonstration of how we work that we have.
Your side of it
What you see
The contract, signed in one place
Proposals and contracts are issued and signed inside Margin. No third-party signing tool, no PDF chasing, one copy that both sides can open.
One person in charge
Every project has a Grid senior leading it, and that is who you see and who you talk to, from the first call to launch.
Updates you can trust
Project updates go out from Margin when there is something to say, sent by a person, not fired by a timer.
Next: your own login
A client area is the next piece: your live project, your invoices and a place to raise a ticket, without a thread to search.
Behind it
The people
Specialists, not generalists
Beside the core team is a roster of specialists we have worked with before, each chosen for one thing they are exceptionally good at.
Quoted per job
Work goes to the roster as a fixed-price job, so the number in your proposal is the number, not an estimate that drifts.
Your details stay yours
Roster members see the task and the brief, never your name, your contacts or your commercials. Only the Grid team does.
Why we built it, not bought it
We ran on three tools and three versions of the truth. One tool, refined for project work, is how a small senior studio runs twelve hosting clients without an account manager.
The studio it runs
Checkable, not claimed
Every figure has a client name on it and a case study behind it.