Drawn in Dallas, for meetings that still use paper

Why the studio exists

The work began after too many partner meetings in which the first twenty minutes were a tour of a 40-page export. The figures were not wrong. They were unreadable at the pace of a Monday morning. We started redrawing cash and lock-up for practices we already knew, then took the same method to advisory teams who wanted a client to leave with a board, not a screenshot.

Dallas, Moray, is not a London pitch room. It is a quiet place to draw, close enough to Inverness for a train, and far enough that we do not confuse motion with a finished panel. On-site days happen when the briefing needs the compiler in the same room as the partners. The rest of the drawing happens here.

How we work

We will not draw a line that does not exist in the ledger. If WIP is not time-recorded, the panel says so. If the budget is still last year’s office, the variance sheet waits. Review rounds are for labels, order, and emphasis — not for making a poor month look like a good one.

We are not your accountant, your auditor, or a substitute for an engagement letter. Partners remain responsible for the figures they sign. Our job is the arrangement: which four numbers belong on the first sheet, and how a person who did not compile the pack can find them.