Services

Purpose-built digital systems for studios, creators, and independent businesses.

Forge & Ember Studios designs and develops handcrafted websites, platforms, and digital assistants that align with how you actually work. No themes, no templates—just systems shaped to your workflow.

Studio SystemsForge & Ember
Client GalleryLive

Ember is watching uploads, updating galleries, and notifying clients while you focus on the work only you can do.

Platforms

Custom-built

Assistants

Ember-powered

Automations

Always on

What Forge & Ember builds.

Every project is tailored, but most of our work falls into three core pillars. You don't have to fit into a box—we shape the box around your studio.

Websites & Platforms

Custom Websites & Platforms

From brochure sites to full studio portals, we design and develop custom frontends using modern tooling—no themes, no pre-made layouts, no unnecessary bloat.

  • • Custom marketing sites & landing pages
  • • Studio portals & client dashboards
  • • Authentication & gated content
  • • E-commerce flows & payment integration
Assistants & Automations

Ember & Digital Assistants

We design systems like Ember—your Photographer's Digital Assistant—to take on repetitive tasks, answer common questions, and keep key processes running reliably in the background.

  • • AI-backed studio assistants
  • • Automated notifications & reminders
  • • Gallery & delivery workflows
  • • Client communication helpers
Studio Systems

Studio Systems for Creators

Whether you're a photographer, artist, leatherworker, or multi-disciplinary studio, we help connect the dots between how you create, sell, and deliver.

  • • Client galleries & proofing tools
  • • Asset management & delivery
  • • Inventory & product workflows
  • • Studio-specific internal tools

How we work together.

The specifics of each project change, but the core approach stays the same: understand the real workflow, then design and build a system worthy of it.

01 · Discover

Understand the work.

We talk through your current tools, what's working, what isn't, and what "better" would look like for you and your clients.

02 · Build

Shape the system.

We design, prototype, and develop a solution that fits your studio—front to back. You get real progress updates as we go.

03 · Support

Refine & evolve.

After launch, we keep the system healthy—fixing, improving, and expanding as your work and clients change over time.

What we can build for you.

Not every project starts with a perfect brief. If all you know is that your current tools are holding you back, that’s enough to start a conversation. We’ll help translate the way you work into a system that makes sense — for you, your team, and your clients.

What this means for your studio

  • • Your systems aren’t boxed into templates.
  • • Your workflows dictate the tools — not the other way around.
  • • You own your platform and your data.
  • • Everything is built to grow with your business long-term.

Typical project types

  • • Portfolio websites
  • • Studio dashboards & internal tools
  • • Automated assistants & workflows
  • • E-commerce flows & product configurators
  • • Private client portals
  • • Booking & onboarding systems

Examples

  • • Custom marketing websites
  • • Client gallery & proofing platforms
  • • Private studio / client portals
  • • Booking & onboarding flows
  • • Asset delivery & archive tools

Under the hood

  • • Modern frontends (Next.js, TypeScript)
  • • API & service integrations
  • • Authentication & permissions
  • • Automation hooks & background tasks

For studios like

  • • Photographers & creative studios
  • • Artists & makers
  • • Boutique brands & small businesses
  • • Multi-disciplinary creators

Have something you'd like to build?

Tell us about your studio, your clients, and where you'd like your systems to be a year from now. We'll help forge the tools to get you there.