For interior design firms · $3M to $20M
You built a design firm. Somehow you became its project manager, bookkeeper, and procurement department.
Origin OS installs the project workflows, procurement systems, and budget scoreboards that let a design founder design again. Built by an operator who co-owns a design firm that runs on the Origin OS.
Delivered personally by the operator behind Origin OS. Who you'd be working with →
A working design firm, running on the Origin OS.
The pattern we see at $3M-$20M revenue
Sound familiar?
Billable hours leak everywhere
Client texts at 9pm, "quick" revisions, scope that creeps room by room: none of it invoiced, all of it delivered. The margin was there at proposal. It isn’t at final invoice.
Procurement chaos
Orders across forty vendors, lead times that slip silently, damaged freight discovered at install week. Every project carries a five-figure surprise.
Every aesthetic decision routes through you
You oversee every tile, every fabric, every logistical detail, because there is no documented standard for what "your firm’s work" means without you in the room.
Why listen to us
Origin’s founder co-owns Curio Studio Interiors, and it runs on the Origin OS. This is the operating system a working design firm actually runs on, not a consultant’s theory of one.
$120K
in new-client revenue for one client, in a year
Curio Studio Interiors
Systems + AI
that finally stuck for a busy nonprofit team
AFSP Long Island Chapter
Code → production
sharper AI and a tighter sales process
Founder client
Real client outcomes, in their words. Read the reviews →
The prescription
Right-sized ways in.
Same operating system, three depths. Start where your problem actually is, from a free score to an operator in the seat.
The Origin OS: the five pillars
Clarify your standards, map the ownership, systematize the projects, meter the money.
Explore →Implementation Day
One working day with your leadership team: close the quarter, set the next, and leave with owners and dates.
Explore →The Operating Partner
One 90-day plan, built and run with your team, while you get back to design.
Explore →What Tuesday looks like after
Projects run on documented phases. Procurement has a tracker, not a prayer. Budgets report weekly. And you spend your best hours on design, the thing clients actually hired the firm for.
Read: The same bottleneck caps $3M design firms and $3M real estate teams →
What operators say
The proof isn’t a promise. It’s their words.
“I'm a real estate team leader, and I brought in Zack to help with some consulting, help me put some systems in place, and I've applied it not only to my team stats but my personal stats. Last year I sold about $7.3 million in real estate, and this year, it's early October, I far surpassed that, and I should hit around $11 million in sales with everything I have pending ... I went from an independent contractor to a business owner, and that is what Zack has done for me.”
Beau P.
Real Estate Team Leader
$7.3M last year, ~$11M this year
“I brought Zack on as our fractional COO, and it's one of the best decisions I've made for Curio. I'm a creative at heart, and the systems, operations, and sales were where I kept getting stuck. He didn't just advise, he built: a custom operating system, our CRM, our marketing across social and email, our sales strategy, and how we deliver for clients. I went from holding the whole business in my head to running it on real systems.”
Savannah D.
Founder, Curio Studio Interiors
$120K new-client revenue in a year
FAQ
What interior design firms ask us
Design is creative work. Won’t systems flatten it?
Systems don’t flatten creativity; they protect it. Every hour your senior designers spend chasing freight or rebuilding a budget is an hour of design the client didn’t get. The OS systematizes the operational 60% so the creative 40% gets your firm’s full attention.
Do you have design-specific systems, or is it generic?
The five pillars are industry-agnostic, and the templates get tailored to design work (project phases, procurement, budgets) as we install. Curio Studio Interiors, the founder’s own design studio, runs on the same OS. The free Diagnostic and every service tier apply to design firms today.
What’s a realistic outcome in 90 days?
A documented project lifecycle with phase gates, a procurement tracking system with vendor SLAs, and a project-level budget scoreboard. Firms usually recover the engagement cost in caught leakage alone.
Who it’s for
Different industry, same bottleneck?
The five-pillar system is industry-agnostic. The templates get tailored to yours.
Real Estate Teams
$3M-$20M GCI
Origin OS installs the lead-routing, ownership, and commission-tracking infrastructure your team needs to grow past you. Built by a fractional COO who installs these systems inside growing teams.
Coaches & Consultants
$100K-$3M
Origin is the operating system I built to run my own expertise business: the systems, the AI, the CRM, and the community. Now I install it for other coaches and consultants, advise the build, or hand you the platform to run the whole thing yourself. Your own branded community on Origin is live: your brand, your domain, your members.
Agencies
$3M-$20M
Origin OS installs the ownership, delivery, and margin infrastructure an agency needs to grow past its founder: who owns each account, how the work gets delivered without the senior people in every meeting, and a scoreboard that shows utilization and margin before the month closes. Built by a fractional COO who installs these systems inside founder-led service businesses.
Field Service Companies
$3M-$20M revenue
Origin is the layer above the software you already use: the week’s numbers on one screen, an owner for every outcome, the processes written down, and a weekly meeting your team runs. We plan it, we build it, and we make it last.
See every way in
Free → $50K
From the free Diagnostic to a full done-for-you build, the complete menu of services.
Find your team's weakest pillar.
Free, about five minutes, scored 1 to 5. The same intake we run on paid engagements.