The work. The numbers. The products people actually keep.
This is what we've shipped, what we made, and what each project cost — laid out the same way we send our quotes. The case study library is small on purpose right now. We're posting every order as it ships, not padding the page with stock photos.
The numbers behind the work
Four metrics we track on every job we ship.
Featured case study
The premium media agency pilot.
A 40-person creative agency needed 150 client appreciation kits in under three weeks — MagSafe wallets, slim portable chargers, and custom 3D-printed logo medallions, boxed and ready to ship. Their marketing director, Sarah, was holding a $14,200 quote from a national promo supplier that forced her to buy 200 units she didn't need.
We came back in 48 hours with an itemized proposal for her actual quantity. Total: $6,720. Margin we kept: 54%. The kits were the most-commented-on item in the room.
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Project breakdown
What we built into each of the 150 kits.
No black-box pricing. Here's what was in the box, how it was made, and what each component cost on the line item.
MagSafe card wallet
Vegan leather, magnetic stack, debossed agency logo. Tested with iPhone 12 through 15. Sourced direct from a vetted supplier — no distributor layer.
Unit landed: $14.20 · Decoration: $2.10
10,000 mAh slim charger
USB-C in/out, full-color sleeve printed with the agency's secondary brand pattern. Functional first — the kind of thing that ends up in a laptop bag, not a drawer.
Unit landed: $16.40 · Decoration: $3.00
Custom logo medallion
FDM-printed on our farm in branded PLA, sanded and clear-coated. The centerpiece of every box — and the piece the competitor couldn't quote at all.
Material + machine time: $3.80 each
Rigid matte black box
Magnetic closure, tissue paper layer, custom belly band. Designed to feel like unboxing a piece of hardware — not pulling a sample out of a poly mailer.
Unit landed: $4.50
Brand-voice card
Letterpress thank-you card written in the agency's voice, not generic distributor copy. Hand-stacked into every box during fulfillment.
Unit landed: $0.80
Brand OS fee
Artwork prep, digital proofs, supplier coordination, QC on every kit before it left the bench, and a single point of contact for the entire project.
Project flat: built into the per-kit price
Side by side
The same brief. Two very different quotes.
This is the comparison Sarah forwarded up the chain to get internal sign-off. Same outcome, structurally different process.
The product mix we work in
The categories we ship — and what we print ourselves.
Every project we take blends sourced premium items with custom 3D-printed pieces made in-house. That's how the margin works without forcing the client to overpay.
Tech accessories
MagSafe wallets, slim chargers, cable kits, magnetic mounts. The category that gets used daily and lives on a desk for years.
Lead time: 10–14 days
Premium drinkware
Insulated tumblers, ceramic mugs, double-wall bottles — decorated by laser engraving or full-wrap print, never single-color screen.
Lead time: 10–14 days
Custom 3D-printed pieces
Logo medallions, branded desk pieces, packaging inserts, prototype gifts. Designed and printed on our farm — no outsourcing.
Lead time: 7–14 days
Packaging & kitting
Rigid boxes with magnetic closure, custom belly bands, branded inserts, hand-assembled kits with QC on every box.
Lead time: 7–10 days
Desk & travel
Travel cases, notebooks, desk organizers, branded stands. Functional pieces sized for the actual use case, not the catalog photo.
Lead time: 14 days
Apparel (selective)
We take apparel projects when there's a strategic fit — premium blanks only, embroidery or DTG, never bulk-cotton giveaway tees.
Lead time: 14–21 days
"The kits were the most-commented-on branded item in the room. Three attendees asked who made them. We saved over $7,400 versus the quote we almost accepted — and got a better product at a lower minimum."
What's coming next
The case studies we're shipping this quarter.
We post each one as it lands — with the same line-item breakdown, the same margin number, and a real client quote. No portfolio padding.
B2B SaaS sales kits
50 outbound kits — MagSafe charger, branded cable case, custom 3D-printed name plate. Quote-to-close in 9 days.
Sales Follow-Up Kit · ships next month
Real estate team gifting
Premium drinkware and a custom 3D-printed coaster set for a brokerage's top-25 client list. Approval pending.
Client Thank-You Kit · estimated 14-day ship
Trade-show event kit
Conference booth product for an SMB software team — drinkware, branded swag, and a 3D-printed table display piece.
Event Starter Kit · Q1 trade show
Your project. Same transparent treatment.
Bring us a brief — a quantity, a use case, a budget — and we'll send back an itemized quote in one business day with mockups in 24 to 48 hours. The same way we did it for Sarah.