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Are you with us?
Five-state field documentary supporting a national constitutional amendment campaign.
American Promise · Documentary · Political — 2025Read the case studyProjects · 2023–2026
Selected work from the studio.
Video, brand systems, websites, software for nonprofits, and the AI automations we’ve built for clients and for ourselves.
Video
5 projects
Films that earn their runtime.
Documentary, brand film, and event production. We shoot, edit, score, and ship in-house.
[ Video still — stage opener ]1:34
Conference opener — She Speaks
A 90-second stage opener for the San Diego Women's HIV Conference.
A Woman's Voice · Event · Brand film — 2025[ Video still — patient interview ]3:08
In her words
Patient testimonial series for a remote-monitoring healthcare platform.
CoachCare · Healthcare · Testimonial — 2024[ Video still — recovery house ]22:40
After the relapse
Long-form documentary on recovery and the people who run the houses.
Stepping Stone · Documentary · Nonprofit — 2024[ Video still — brand film ]2:12
A new kind of marketplace
Brand film for the launch of a European designer e-commerce platform.
Studio Europa · Brand film · Launch — 2023Brand & Identity
3 projects
Whole systems, not single logos.
Each system is shown with the parts that make it a system — mark, palette, type, and at least one applied piece.
An identity for the San Diego Women's HIV Conference.
A wordmark, color system, type pairing, and the campaign and conference materials that carry it through the year.
A Woman's Voice · Identity · Print · Environmental — 2025
AWVWordmark
#B8512F
#231F20
#F8F5EC
#FFE600
Palette · 4 stops
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DisplayBricolage Grotesque
Rr
BodySöhne Mono
A wordmark and stationery system for a heritage olive oil producer.
Built around an old California ranch ledger, paired with a contemporary mono and a single warm green.
Sirot Company · Identity · Packaging · Print — 2024
SIROTWordmark
#3F5D3A
#231F20
#F2EEE2
#9C988A
Palette · 4 stops
Aa
DisplayLe Murmure
Rr
BodySöhne
[ Bottle label set ]
[ Stationery + tin ]
A brand system for an immigration legal services nonprofit.
A workmanlike identity — paperwork-honest, generous color, multilingual from the wordmark out.
Project Visa · Identity · Web · Print — 2023
PROJECT VISAWordmark
#1E3A5F
#231F20
#F8F5EC
#D7DFE9
Palette · 4 stops
Aa
DisplayBricolage Grotesque
Rr
BodyGeist
[ Bilingual collateral ]
[ Field guide booklet ]
Web Platforms
5 projects
Sites we built, ship, and maintain.
Marketing sites, nonprofit platforms, and direct-to-consumer commerce. Built on systems we still log into every week.
bodywerks.com
[ Storefront — hero + parts catalog ]
A digital storefront for a high-end auto body shop.
Chris Amato's Body Werks · E-commerce — 2024steppingstonesd.org
[ Stepping Stone — programs page ]
A platform redesign for a recovery and housing nonprofit.
Stepping Stone · Marketing · CMS — 2024coachcare.com
[ CoachCare — platform marketing ]
A marketing platform refresh for a remote-monitoring company.
CoachCare · Marketing — 2023projectvisa.org
[ Project Visa — intake form ]
A multilingual nonprofit site with case intake flows.
Project Visa · Nonprofit · Forms — 2023americanpromise.net
[ American Promise — chapter page ]
A campaign site supporting the 28th amendment effort.
American Promise · Campaign · CMS — 2025Avenir For Good2 products
Software we build for nonprofits.
Avenir For Good is our software arm — two products built around how mission-driven organizations actually operate, not how generic SaaS imagines they do.
[ Product UI — Supporter briefing ]
01 / Product
Avenir CRM
A nonprofit CRM with an AI-driven supporter briefing.
Two paragraphs of context on every supporter, generated before the meeting — gift history, recent touchpoints, current programmatic interests, and the relationship arc in plain language. Built for the executive directors and development officers who walk into rooms every week and need to remember everyone.
Product · In active development — since 202402 / Product
Avenir Gala
A ticketing platform built specifically for nonprofit fundraising events.
Tiered tickets, table seating, sponsor packages, paddle raise, and silent auction — in one system designed around how galas actually run. Replaces the patchwork of Eventbrite, OneCause, Greater Giving, and spreadsheets most development teams stitch together every spring.
Product · In active development — since 2023[ Product UI — Gala dashboard ]
Automation & AI
3 projects
Quiet tools doing loud work.
Custom internal tools and AI workflow builds. The proof lives in operations dashboards, not in marketing screenshots.
CASE 01
Stack
GPT-4 · Retool · Postgres
A patient-intake assistant that drafts care plans from EMR notes.
- What it does
- A custom GPT-4 pipeline that reads a new patient's EMR file on intake, drafts a personalized 90-day care plan, and queues it for clinician review.
- What it replaced
- A six-step manual workflow that took clinicians 35–45 minutes per patient.
- Outcome
- Time-to-plan dropped from ~40 minutes to ~6 minutes of clinician review. Plans are now generated for 100% of incoming patients, up from ~70%.
CoachCare · Healthcare — 2025
CASE 02
Stack
n8n · GPT-4o-mini · QuickBooks API
A wholesale-order automation across email, shipping, and accounting.
- What it does
- An automation that watches a wholesale inbox, parses orders out of PDFs and email bodies, generates the BOL, and pushes everything into QuickBooks and ShipStation.
- What it replaced
- A part-time admin manually re-keying orders from email into three separate systems.
- Outcome
- Wholesale order turnaround dropped from ~24 hours to under an hour. Re-keying errors eliminated entirely. The part-time admin role was redirected to direct accounts.
Sirot Company · Operations — 2024
CASE 03
Stack
Claude · Avenir CRM · Google Calendar
A donor research brief generator for development staff.
- What it does
- An internal tool that, given a supporter name and a meeting context, pulls from CRM history, public records, and recent giving, then drafts a two-paragraph briefing.
- What it replaced
- Two hours of manual prep per major-donor meeting, often skipped under time pressure.
- Outcome
- Briefings are now generated for every external meeting on staff calendars. Development team reports 3× the rate of personalized follow-ups.
A Woman's Voice · Development — 2024
Working with us
Avenir takes on a small number of new engagements each year, almost always on retainer. We start with a paid discovery — typically four to six weeks — and continue from there into a quarterly cadence. We don’t bid against agencies, and we don’t pitch on spec. If the fit is right, the first conversation is short.