Design + AI systems studio · Philadelphia

Punch above
your size

Upwield makes small organizations look sharp and run lean — design and AI systems under one roof, so a three-person shop shows up like a thirty-person one.

A one-person studio — you work with the maker, not an account manager.

Two halves of one studio

Everything here makes you bigger than you are — on the surface, or under the hood.

Look sharp

Show up like a bigger, more credible organization.

Deck Production
Investor, board, and advocacy decks that look like a design studio made them. Priced per slide.
Per-Event Media
A next-day highlight video and a staff/performer notes PDF — every show, on a template.
Brand Kits soon
Logo, identity, and reusable templates so everything you send looks like one company.
Run lean

Operate like a bigger, more efficient organization.

Automation Audit
A one-week diagnostic that finds the manual busywork and hands you a ranked plan to kill it.
$499
Workflow Bots
Slack and Discord bots that handle the repetitive work — FAQ, onboarding, notifications, ops.
Self-Host Migration
Move off stacked monthly subscriptions onto tools you own. Your savings pay for the switch.
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How it works

Start small. We earn the next thing.

No long contract to begin. One cheap, concrete project — then the work tells us what's worth building next.

1

Start with a wedge

A $499 audit, or a single deck. Low risk, fast turnaround, nothing to commit to.

2

Get something concrete

A ranked plan with hours and dollars saved — or a deck you can present Monday.

3

We build what it surfaces

The bot, the migration, the next deck. You only fund what the first project proved was worth it.

4

Stay lean

An optional monthly retainer keeps the systems running and the work looking sharp.

Selected work

Already shipping, already paid for.

Strategy
Keeping public dollars in the local economy
Procurement strategy
Briefing
The local case for food security
1 in 6face food insecurity
Food-policy briefing
Advocacy
Make the case the room can’t ignore.
Advocacy campaign

Representative of recent decks — full, name-stripped samples on request.

Weekly
Per-event media running every week at a Philadelphia jazz club.

~2 hrs
Marginal time per audit — half the deliverable runs on our own tooling, so it's fast and cheap.

Where are you losing time — or looking smaller than you are?

Tell us in five questions. We'll point to the fastest fix, whether that's a deck this week or an automation that saves you ten hours a month.

Start with an audit Start a deck