Lattice for studios and agencies
Lattice is a canvas where a studio builds direction boards for client work: references, comps, palettes, type, and treatment notes on one surface, organized into frames, presented full-screen, or sent as a read-only link. One person builds the board and the studio's client receives a link they can open without an account. Nothing has to be rebuilt in a deck.
Open a board- Every client presentation starts with someone exporting the moodboard into the studio's deck template the night before.
- The direction the client approved is a PDF in an email thread, and the version on the server is already different.
- The client forwards the deck to their CEO, and it opens as a wall of attachments on a phone.
Build the board the way the work actually starts
Client work starts as a pile: references, the competitor's materials, the brief as a PDF, a link to the client's own site, a recording of the kickoff. Lattice takes all of it. Drop images and they become cards. Paste the link and it unfurls with a preview. Drop the brief and it opens in place. Record the kickoff as a voice note and the transcript lands next to it, so the client's own words sit beside the references they inspired. Clip from the browser with the web clipper as the research goes on. The brand moodboard and campaign planner templates give a first structure, and the board is infinite, so three directions can be laid out side by side at full size instead of in three separate files.
Organize once, present many times
A studio's board has to survive more than one meeting. Ask Lattice to organize and it does the sorting a junior would spend an afternoon on, grouping the references by what they share, giving the type and the palette their own frames, and linking the cards that belong to the same idea. Rename the frames in the studio's own vocabulary, the words you use in the room. Draw a ring around the recommendation so the client can't mistake the alternatives for it. Tag each card with its direction and filter to show one direction at a time when the meeting calls for focus. Because the board is the deliverable rather than a stage on the way to a deck, the same board carries the project from first direction to final without being rebuilt. The Anthem showcase board on this site, a direction for a fictional brand, is the shape to aim for: a claim, evidence on a grid, the system, and the proof in motion.
One person builds, the client receives a link
The person who built the board presents it: in the studio, on the client's screen, or on a call. Presentation mode hides everything but the board and moves frame to frame, so the client sees a direction, not a canvas with a toolbar. Afterwards, that same person turns on link sharing and sends the board. The client opens it in a browser with no account and no app, and forwards it to the CEO who wasn't in the room; it opens on their phone the same way, as a board and not a wall of attachments. When the notes come back, the builder edits the frame they point to and the link already sent is the current version; the approved direction and the working direction never diverge. A PDF or SVG export covers the file and the leave-behind.
Questions
- Does the client need an account?
- No. A read-only link opens in any browser, and the client can forward it to anyone else who needs to look.
- Can several people edit the same board?
- A board is built by one person. Sharing is read-only: the studio's client, and anyone they forward it to, can view it without an account.
- Can I present the board full-screen?
- Yes. Presentation mode takes over the screen and moves through the board one frame at a time.
- Can I export the board?
- Yes. PDF and SVG for the file, PNG or JPG for a single frame.
- Is it free?
- Yes. Lattice is free in public beta and asks for no card. Studio is announced and waitlisted, not yet purchasable.