The client engagement studio
Discovery that feels like a conversation.
Where every engagement begins with what your client is drawn to.
See what your client loves before you make anything.
What Encore is
Encore is a client engagement studio — one space to figure out what your client wants. Compose the questionnaires, moodboards, and comparisons a new project needs, and send them as a single link.
Your client moves through it like a conversation. More than a form — they see real imagery, make choices, and explain what fits.
Every choice comes back written down — a visual brief, agreed on before the work begins.
What changes when
you open with Encore.
Before
Starting blind.
- ✕Adjectives with nothing to react to
- ✕Answers that trail off half-finished
- ✕A brief you wrote alone
- ✕Round one is really discovery
After
Knowing exactly what they love.
- ✓Real reactions to real imagery
- ✓A session clients actually finish
- ✓A brief written from their choices
- ✓Alignment before the first design
The tools.
Four instruments and a page studio, composed into whatever the engagement needs — a full discovery, a proposal, a single moodboard read. One link goes out. Every choice comes back.
The Questionnaire — one call at a time.
No adjectives, no essays. Your client sees one card and makes one call — keep or pass. Taste, captured directly.
What it captures
The Moodboard — reactions with reasons.
A curated board the client rates tile by tile. Every score lands in your studio, with room to say why.
What it captures
The Comparison — a decision, not a guess.
Two directions, side by side. The client chooses one — and that choice is written down before any work begins.
What it captures
The Pages — where choices become the work.
The visual brief drafts itself from the session. Proposals, strategy pages, and one-pagers compose in the same studio — and go out as live links, never attachments.
What it makes
The discovery flow is the signature. It’s one of many you can wire.
01
The full arcThe whole discovery — questionnaire to brief, one evidence trail.
02
A proposalComposed in Pages, sent to the client as a live link.
03
A single readOne instrument alone — a moodboard read before a pitch.
04
Yours to wireAny steps, any order. Wire it once, send one link.
Kickoff shouldn’t feel like paperwork. It should feel like hitting it off.
Compose
Pick the steps, drop in imagery, set the order — without writing another kickoff form.
Share
One private link. No password to remember — your client verifies their email and picks up on any device.
React
Keep or pass, ratings with reasons, a direction call — every choice lands in your studio as it happens.
Read
The brief drafts itself from their choices. Open it in the Page Studio, shape it, send it live.
Encore moves at the pace of your client, not a project plan.
Every choice, recorded. The moment a client keeps, rates, or decides, it lands in your studio — evidence, not memory.
One link, one secure home. Clients verify by email, then their sessions and briefs stay connected wherever they return.
A brief from proof. End the flow with a brief step and the draft writes itself from what they chose.
What clients feel
“Choose what fits. Explain what matters.”
The client’s whole job — see, choose, say why.
The interface writes it all down.
The engine
There’s an intelligence
under all of it.
Built into specific moments — analysis on import, synthesis at the finish, drafting on request. Never between you and the client.
Import anything — Encore tags palette, mood, and subject so boards assemble fast.
Keeps, ratings, written notes, and direction calls — held as proof, not vibes.
A finished flow becomes a structured brief, grounded in what they chose.
A flow or a page, first-passed by Encore — reviewed and shaped by you.
Ask in a line — “a moodboard page from the tiles they rated highest” — and Encore drafts it on the spot. You review, you decide — nothing reaches a client without you.
We’re in the business of starting engagements on what’s true.
I built Encore after a hundred kickoffs that started blind.
Let me show you one that doesn’t.
Pricing for your
next kickoff.
14-day free trial · everything included
FAQ
They don’t create a password. A secure email link confirms who they are, opens the engagement on any device, and gives them a home for unfinished sessions and finished briefs.
$20 a month, or $200 a year — everything included, no tiers to compare. Every plan starts with 14 days free, and you can cancel from billing in two clicks.
From their choices. Keeps, ratings, notes, and direction calls are recorded as they happen — end the flow with a brief step and Encore synthesizes a draft you shape in the Page Studio before it goes out.
Yes — sessions are built from imagery you curate. Upload your own, pull references, and arrange the steps in any order that fits the engagement.
The forty-question kickoff form, the “what’s your vibe?” call, and the first round of revisions that existed only because nobody had seen the client’s taste yet.
Open your next engagement with what they love.
“It’s the difference between asking someone to describe a song and just pressing play.”
days free, on every plan.
for your clients, ever.
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