Nicole Franco
Catalyst Studios — Strategy, Design, Technology, Experience

Designing brands, systems, experiences, and infrastructure that create meaningful impact.

The Studio

Where shared vision becomes built form.

Catalyst Studios helps meaningful ideas move from possibility into form. We connect strategy, design, technology, programs, systems, and experience so the pieces support one coherent vision instead of becoming disconnected deliverables.

The Studio can shape one part of a project or connect the parts into a whole — with the goal of creating something useful, coherent, sustainable, and ready for your team to run, grow, and own.

Strategy · Design · Technology · Experience

Why Catalyst Studios

The vision.

Good ideas often get lost between vision and execution. Strategy lives in one place, brand in another, technology somewhere else, and the actual experience with another team. Catalyst Studios works across those boundaries — connecting the pieces so what you build feels and functions like one whole.

Strategy should become something people can use.

Technology should support the work, not dictate it.

Programs and experiences need systems behind them.

Brand, operations, and experience should reinforce the same vision.

Start here

What brings you here?

Find the sentence that sounds like your situation. That is enough to start a conversation — scope gets shaped together.

“We have a vision but no structure.”

Strategy, offer architecture, and whole-systems mapping so the idea becomes something buildable.

Strategy & systems →Talk it through

“Our brand no longer matches what we've become.”

Identity, visual system, and messaging rebuilt around who you actually are now.

Brand & identity →Talk it through

“We need a site or platform that actually works.”

Websites, apps, and digital infrastructure designed for ownership, speed, and real use.

Websites & digital →Talk it through

“We're producing an experience, program, or cohort.”

Concept through production — creative direction, program design, and live execution.

Experience & programs →Talk it through

“We're teaching and need somewhere to deliver it.”

Course build-out, learning platforms, community spaces, and the technology behind them.

Teaching platforms & technology →Talk it through

“We launched, and now we need it to keep running.”

Ongoing design, technical, and growth support — testing what's working, fixing what isn't, and upgrading the tools when they start limiting the vision.

Ongoing support →Talk it through
How the Studio works

Align, design, build, launch, sustain.

We build with your team, not around it — so the thing we make together stays yours to run.

01

Align

Get clear on what success looks like.

02

Design

Shape the strategy and system.

03

Build

Produce it with your team.

04

Launch

Ship it, ready to run.

05

Sustain

Keep it running and growing.

Scope & pricing

Transparent pricing, published.

Every capability area has a detail page with tiers and pricing. Custom scopes and mutually beneficial exchanges are always open for conversation.

Strategy · Brand · Websites · Technology · Learning · Experience · Community · Ongoing support

Tell us what you're building.

The first step is a conversation about what you're building and where it could go. We work alongside your team and hand it over working — capacity, not dependency.

If a deeper working session is the right ignition, a 90-minute Catalyst Session comes off any package or service booked afterward.