The studio · MMXXVI

A small studio, building its own products.

Zenpho Studio is a venture studio. We don't just build for clients — we build, launch and operate our own software products using the same playbooks, infrastructure and team we'd bring to any commission.

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The studio

A studio that bets on itself.

Most agencies sell hours. We sell outcomes — and we prove the method by running it on ourselves.

Zenpho Studio is a small team of operators, designers and engineers who build software products end-to-end: from the first sketch on a whiteboard to a live product with paying users. Some of those products serve our clients. Others are ours to keep.

We treat every internal venture the way an old workshop treats a commission — define the smallest version that proves the idea, design it, build it, ship it, and stay to improve it. The difference is the patron is us.

No outside agencies. No off-the-shelf stacks held together with tape. No waiting on a roadmap somebody else controls. One team, one repo, one accountable lead — across every product we put our name on.

“If our playbook can't build our own products, it has no business building yours.”

The portfolio

Four products. One studio.

Each product below is built, owned and operated by Zenpho Studio. Same team, same method, same standard of craft we'd bring to a client engagement.

In developmentDigital agencies · marketing · software · creative

Zenpho CRM

Prospect, manage clients, run projects, report — one workspace.

The tool Zenpho uses every day — prospecting, client management, project delivery and reporting in one place. Built for marketing agencies, software development shops and creative studios that need pipeline, delivery and visibility without juggling five subscriptions.

Why we're building it

We outgrew CRMs that couldn't prospect, PM tools that couldn't manage clients, and spreadsheets that couldn't report. So we built the stack we run on every commission — and we're opening it to agencies like ours.

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LiveLocal businesses · free instant preview
NESW

Business Audit

Find your revenue leaks — in sixty seconds.

Scan your Google profile, reviews, website, ads and local positioning — get missed opportunities surfaced in under a minute. Free preview, no card required.

Why we're building it

Local businesses lose thousands every month to fixable gaps — incomplete profiles, stale reviews, slow sites, missing follow-up. We built the audit we run before every outreach conversation so owners see the leaks before we talk.

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LiveBuilt for automotive sales pros

SoldTools

Software for the people on the floor.

Finance calculators, deal structuring, lease math, customer follow-up scripts and AI-assisted outreach for car salespeople. Built by someone who's worked the floor, not someone who's read about it.

Why we're building it

The automotive sales industry runs on spreadsheets, group chats and memory. SoldTools turns the top 1% of salesperson's workflow into software the other 99% can run.

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LiveAgencies · outreach · prospecting

Branding & Sales Funnel

Brand book, ad creatives, and funnel — one PDF.

Pick a Google Business Profile and Zenpho drafts a full Brand Kit + Sales Funnel PDF: palette and typography from the live site, AI brand imagery, Meta and Google ad creatives, landing page direction, suggested budget, and KPIs — ready to send before the first call.

Why we're building it

Prospecting used to mean hours in Figma and spreadsheets before a prospect would take a meeting. We automated the first impression — the same brand-and-funnel package our team sends in outreach, now one search and a few minutes.

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How we build

The same five steps, every time.

Our products move through the same pipeline our client work does. That's the point — the playbook is the product.

01

Define the smallest version

We write the brief before we write the code. What's the one thing this product has to do well to earn the right to exist? Everything else waits.

02

Design in the open

Wireframes, brand, UX flows — all locked before engineering starts. Beautiful is functional, and functional starts with clarity.

03

Build in one sprint

Two-week sprints, end-to-end ownership, deploy to production every day. We don't do staging environments that nobody visits.

04

Launch to learn

A working v1 beats a perfect v2 in deck form. We ship, we watch the data, we talk to the first ten users.

05

Operate and compound

Most studios hand off and disappear. We stay. The product earns the next sprint based on what real users actually do.

The studio canons

Six laws we build by.

Icanon

Clarity before code.

Every product, internal or external, opens with a brief — not a backlog. We pin the version that ships, in writing, before we build a thing.

IIcanon

Ship to learn.

A working v1 beats a perfect v2 in deck form. We launch fast on purpose — the market is the only critic that matters.

IIIcanon

Own the whole pipeline.

Strategy, design, build, deploy, operate. One team, one repo, one accountable lead. No hand-offs that drop on the floor.

IVcanon

Bespoke, not boilerplate.

Every product we ship — ours or yours — is built for the patron in front of us. We don't recycle a "good enough" template.

Vcanon

Stay after launch.

Launch is the start, not the finish. We run our own products in production, so we know what it takes to keep yours alive.

VIcanon

Beautiful is functional.

A site that converts. An app that retains. A product that compounds. Craft isn't decoration — it's the moat.

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Products in the studio
Zenpho CRM, Business Audit, SoldTools, and Branding & Sales Funnel.
50+
Patrons served
From local businesses to funded startups.
200+
Works shipped
Sites, apps, MVPs and ad creatives.
MMXX
Studio founded
Six years of commissions, no two alike.
The thesis

We'd rather own equity than bill hours.

Most agencies hit a ceiling — you're only worth the hours you can sell. A studio compounds. Every product we ship for ourselves becomes a long-term asset, a real-world case study, and a forcing function that keeps our craft sharp.

It also keeps us honest. When you hire Zenpho to build your product, you're hiring a team that ships its own. We feel the same things you feel — the bugs at 11pm, the conversion drop after a launch, the customer who emails to ask if there's an Android version. That's not a sales pitch. That's just the job.

Want the studio to build with you?

Bring us a product idea — yours or ours, equity or cash. A free thirty-minute build call, no pitch deck, no obligation.