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You are an award-winning industrial designer. You are also the project manager for every client you have ever taken on.

Your studio's throughput is capped at whatever you can personally coordinate across every engagement. Here is what it looks like when project tracking runs without you in every thread.

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2:14 PM · You're deep in a design review

A new lead just opened your portfolio. This is usually where they fill out a form and wait three days for a reply.

You're mid-review on a wearable prototype. But this time, the inquiry gets scoped and routed before you even close your CAD file.

hatchduo.com

Industrial Design Studio for Hardware Startups

Consumer products · Wearables · Medical devices · San Francisco
Award-winning product design
HHatch Duo
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Welcome to Hatch Duo. Are you exploring a new product design engagement?
Type your message…
The scoping conversation

The prospect never had to chase you for a response to start the conversation.

A real project brief got captured the way you would gather it, with timeline and scope locked in, ready for your review.

HHatch Duo · New Engagement Intake
Online now
Welcome to Hatch Duo. Are you exploring a new product design engagement?
Yes, we're a medical device startup. We need industrial design for a handheld diagnostic unit.
Great fit for us. What stage are you at, and do you have a target launch window?
We have functional prototypes and funding. Need to be in manufacturing by Q1 next year.
Understood. Let me get this to the founders so they can confirm scope and timeline fit.
Today before 5 PMTomorrow morning
Today works, we're trying to move fast.
Perfect. They'll review your brief and respond by end of day. What's the best email for the proposal?
Handed off on day one

The engagement you would have lost track of between reviews is already structured in the system.

Every milestone, deliverable, and client touchpoint lands in one project file, organized by phase, ready when you open it.

app.hatchduo.projects
Intake / New lead
Diagnostic Device ID Engagement
Handheld medical device · Q1 manufacturing target
NEW ENGAGEMENT
StageFunctional prototypes complete, funded
ScopeIndustrial design through DFM
TimelineManufacturing by Q1 next year
Next ActionFounder scope review by 5 PM today
Project file created · kickoff call scheduled
Full status without every thread

You stop being the only person who knows where every project stands.

It reaches you when something needs a decision, with the context attached so you can act without digging through email.

2:16
Wednesday, July 9
New engagement intake capturednow

Medical device startup · Q1 manufacturing target · scope review needed

Hatch Duo Project Trackernow

Wearable project Phase 2 review due Friday. Client awaiting CAD export confirmation.

Milestone follow-up, sent

The client who would have gone quiet waiting on you just got a phase update.

When a milestone hits, the next client touchpoint goes with it, so the engagement never stalls on your inbox.

5:00 PMPhase 2 review sent
H Hatch Duo
Hi, your Phase 2 design review package is ready. Review the CAD exports here: hatchduo.com/review/wearable-phase2-074
Reply APPROVE to move to Phase 3 or reply with feedback. Phase 3 kickoff slots close Friday at noon.
One new engagement, structured from day one

That was your project coordination and client tracking, running while you were in design review.

The kind of project infrastructure a larger studio takes for granted, built around how a two-founder design practice actually operates.

What you stop being
  • The project manager
  • The milestone tracker
  • The client follow-up loop
What you become again
  • The designer
  • The creative lead
  • The founder
What that is worth

For a studio whose value is design craft, this is what unlocks growth: every engagement you take on moves forward without you as the thread holding it together.

If we're wrong, the conversation ends here. If we're close, this is rarely the only thing you're holding together by hand.

We built this from public information. How close did we get?

Tell us where we got it right, or where we missed. Under a minute.

Built for Hatch Duo as a working preview. Sample workflow; not a real client.
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