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Priya Raghunathan
Client · Mar 4, 2024
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Odalys Moreno
Independent
Priya Raghunathan recommends working with Odalys Moreno

Working with Odalys was genuinely easy. Every deliverable landed a day early, the handoff files were labelled and tidy, and she flagged two edge cases I hadn't thought about. She took the rough identity we had and gave it a real voice — the type, the color, all of it. She's first on my list next quarter.

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Devon Ashworth
Client · Nov 18, 2023
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Ines Kovač
Independent
Devon Ashworth recommends working with Ines Kovač

Ines reads a brief closely. She asked the three questions that actually mattered before writing a line of code, then shipped the reporting dashboard in eleven days with tests. Revisions came back the same afternoon. I've since brought her onto two more projects.

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Marguerite Cho
Client · Aug 9, 2023
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Theo Balogun
Independent
Marguerite Cho recommends working with Theo Balogun

Theo was direct, fast, and unusually good at talking us out of the wrong idea. He understood what our members actually do inside the product and built the flow around that, which saved us a rewrite about six months later.

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Sam Okonjo
Client · Jan 26, 2024
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Wren Delacroix
Independent
Sam Okonjo recommends working with Wren Delacroix

I had no real idea how to write copy for a skincare launch. Wren found the tone on the first pass — warm, a little dry, never precious — and then held that line across packaging, the site, and eight weeks of email.

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Halina Brzezińska
Client · Jun 3, 2023
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Nasir Ahmadi
Independent
Halina Brzezińska recommends working with Nasir Ahmadi

I handed Nasir a difficult brief on supply-chain finance and he came back writing like someone who had worked in it for a decade. The research was thorough and properly cited. We've already booked him for the next four pieces.

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Success Stories Bellrose × Marisol Promotional film

Bellrose × Marisol

Marisol, motion designer, cut the launch film and animated the full asset kit for Bellrose Live.

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Quillon × Alma

Alma, graphic designer, built the cover art and episode templates for Quillon, a weekly interview show.

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Dark forest path — photo by Ian Livesey on StockSnap (CC0)
Ostara Telling stories together

Ostara × Amber

Amber rebuilt Ostara end to end, from competitive research through to a full identity for the community app.

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Success Stories Fernbrook × Ifeoma Short-form video

Fernbrook × Ifeoma

Ifeoma, content creator, produced a year of short-form video that carried Fernbrook to a younger audience.

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Bellrose × Carly

Carly, brand designer and strategist, rebuilt Bellrose's landing pages around a single conversion goal.

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Success Stories Marchetti × Lauren Social media management

Marchetti × Lauren

Lauren, social media marketer, ran Marchetti's daily channels for eighteen months straight.

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Kestrel × Ubaid

Ubaid, brand designer, built a social kit for Kestrel, a games label with a large following across Southeast Asia.

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Success Stories 24 Independents × Verity Ongoing editorial

24 Independents × Verity

Bridget and 23 other independents were hired through Halyard by Verity, the research tool, to write long-form explainers.

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Success Stories Nordhaven × Cory Web development

Nordhaven × Cory

Cory, an independent developer, worked with agency owner Roy on the Nordhaven site build and everything after it.

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Site builders usually take me a whole weekend to wrestle into shape. Here I logged in, picked a theme, and had the thing live in about forty minutes.

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Noor Abadi
Brand Designer

This is the best portfolio builder I've used, and I have tried most of them. It gets out of the way instead of asking me to learn a new grammar first.

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Renata Villalobos
Product Designer

Took our old marketing site down the same afternoon. Coming from a studio that builds sites for a living, that is saying something.

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Halversen Studio
Brand Strategy

I just finished my portfolio here and I'm a little in love with it. First time in years that putting work online hasn't felt like a chore I keep postponing.

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Amara Nwosu
Digital Marketer

The customization goes further than I expected. I matched the colors and background to my own branding, so now I send this instead of my website when someone's ready to hire.

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Sofia Lindqvist
Copywriter

What you're building for independent creatives matters. I'm a college student who put a portfolio together out of passion projects, and getting even that bit of footing is a big deal.

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Devika Ramnath
Brand Designer
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