We’re a build studio.
We look at the full customer journey, product-market fit through retention, and back it with the strategy, art, and capital it needs for momentum. We’ve founded companies, exited, spent years inside startups and enterprises, and know where the traps are.
Strategy
- ICP
- Segmentation
- GTM
- Positioning
- Qualification rubric
- Objection handling
- Promise vs. delivery
- Pricing
Art
- UX/UI design
- Brand identity
- Website
- Marketing
- Product design
Capital
- Financing
- Metrics
- Evidence
- Data room
- Raise prep
- Investing intros
SeaVees
SeaVees had been dormant for 37 years when we relaunched it. The strategy was retail-first, using collaborations with Pantone, James Perse, and J.Crew to put the shoe in front of audiences who already trusted those partners. The art was making a decades-old shoe feel current: vintage silhouettes, modern comfort, a story rooted in real California history. A seed round with Deckers Outdoor Corporation and a Series A backed by Hermès and Simon Property Group funded the growth. The company exited to Pentland Brands.
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- Formula 1
- Ford
- Oakley
- Adobe
- Pantone
- Johnson & Johnson
- Ethicon
- Denso
- Biosense Webster
- Sperry Top-Sider
- Todd Snyder
- James Perse
- J.Crew
- House Industries
- Aspen
- Bella Oaks
- Favia
- LinkedIn Learning
- Patagonia
- Calico
- Deckers
- UC Investments
- SeaVees
- Cleverific
“Working with the Field Office team, I saw firsthand how exceptionally creative they are. They connect unexpected dots, see around corners, and bring a level of thinking that consistently pushes the work somewhere more original and unexpected.”— Michael Smith, Regeneration.vc
Raised 80 million across 10 exceptional companies in 6 months.
Cleverific
Cleverific is a SaaS app for Shopify merchants. We built product and growth from the ground up, from first users on, keeping retention high with every new feature. It grew into a seven-figure ARR business, bootstrapped, profitable, and still running strong after a decade.
Calico
Calico builds AI tools for teams who design, source, and manufacture apparel and accessories. We reshaped the product itself, opening up a customer base the company couldn’t reach before, from core brands like Sendero to established names like Everlane. Our business development took it further, putting Calico in front of The North Face, UGG, Lululemon, and LL Bean. Financing followed the same trajectory: Calico moved from Seed to Series A, and we’re now partners in the business.
The house at the top of this page: think of a giant magician throwing it onto the field.
So the pieces arrive separately and have to find each other. Walls first, roof bounces in after and lands on top.
The triangle feels like it lost momentum and started again (think bocce).
Its last hop was higher than the one before it. Each hop should lose energy. Cutting the extra skip.
The handwritten notes are still too big. Something happened?
Yes. I was measuring the box, not the drawing inside it. Resizing by the handwriting itself.
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Derek Galkin
Brand & Business Development
Co-founded SeaVees and ran it through its exit. Brand and strategy work for Oakley, Formula 1, and Adobe. Can tell you fast whether you have a brand problem or a business problem.
Tu Pham
Design & Execution
Built and exited a bootstrapped ecommerce SaaS company. Client work across J&J Medical, Denso, and Wild Fork. Works out what’s actually in the way, then runs the small teams that build the fix.
Woodrow Weld & Mathew Fishman
Capital & Relationships
Spent decades operating, investing in, and exiting businesses of their own, transacting billions of dollars along the way. They tell you straight whether an opportunity is worth the capital, then bring the relationships and backing to help make it happen.
Dave Powers
Scale & Governance
Ran Deckers Brands as CEO, took it to $4B. Sits on the boards of Carhartt and Solo Brands. Can tell you exactly what a board or an activist investor wants, then get you ready for it.
