Keep Creative is a financial operations studio for architecture and design firms managing complex, project-based work.
What?
What are we? A time studio. Truly.
Business owners come to us so that they have more time:
More time to design books, to teach, to win awards, to dream.
More time to enjoy their work.
Who?
We serve architecture and design firms, fine art studios, food/beverage/CPG brands, as well as founder-led startups.
We’re capable of handling clients with annual gross revenue in excess of 20M+, but don’t think you’re too small for us to help:
If you're building something, we'd love to be in your corner.
Why?
Creative people build the world we all live in and they need help to do it.
Running a business is demanding and it leaves less energy and space for the very thing that make folks start in the first place.
Keep Creative was founded to support their creative work by providing financial clarity and operational structure.
How?
Bookkeeping
It all starts here. It’s the least glamorous work of your business but literally everything else: your cash flow, your margins, your strategy, is only as accurate as the narrative your numbers are telling you.
We’ll get those numbers right.
AR + AP
Every project has two sides of money moving through it: what your clients owe you, and what you owe your collaborators. We’ll manage both, creating a transparent structure that ensures money comes in before it goes out.
We’ll handle the awkward client emails and make sure your talent gets paid.
Cash Flow
Basing your business health on bank balance? Not any more. You need a living cash flow model so we’ll build a road map your business can reference while on the move so the decisions you make are based on data, not your gut.
No more payroll surprises.
See your future cash position and be confident in it.
Project Profitability
Uncertain your last project was profitable or even how you'd check? That's not a knowledge problem, it's a tracking problem.
We'll build the structure so you know your margin while the project's still live, not after.
Get it right once, and the next project's profitable too. And the next. And the next.
Strategy
How do we tie that all together? The books tell you what happened. The forecast tells you what's coming.
Strategy is what you do about it and we’ll be in that conversation with you.
We’ll have your books - and your back.