The shortlist came back reading like someone had actually read our brief. We spoke to three people, signed the second, and had a first draft eleven days later.
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The shortlist came back reading like someone had actually read our brief. We spoke to three people, signed the second, and had a first draft eleven days later.
I run hiring for a team of nine and the paperwork used to eat a full day per contract. Now the agreement, the milestones and the payout all sit in the same thread.
We used to lose two weeks to sourcing before anyone even wrote a line of copy. The last three projects each found their specialist inside four days.
What sold me was rehiring. The designer who shipped our first store knew every decision behind it, so the second phase started at full speed.
Tobias WrenFounder, two-person studio
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