Closed beta · cohort 4 · invitations slow but flowing

A lighter way to brief your studio.

Crayfish helps small creative shops keep client briefs alive without slacking each other to death. We're testing it with about thirty studios across Europe and North America, with new studios joining roughly every other week.

Calm by default

Push notifications off out of the box. You opt in, never out. We aim for under three notifications per studio per day.

Tiny on disk

Single Mac app, around 9 MB. No Electron, no background daemon, no analytics agent.

No AI features

Just briefs, comments, and approvals. We won't auto-write your work or summarise your client meetings.

Studio-owned

Your brief file lives locally as plaintext you can read in Notepad. Sync is optional, off by default.

Got it — we read every application within two business days.

6–10 new studios per month Direct founder onboarding 30-day return policy

brief · v3 draft

currently in review

Spring lookbook
for Holloway & Frame

approvals · this week● live

3 of 4 approved

last edited 14 min ago by Mira

32 studioscurrently in beta

"We spent three years bouncing between Notion, Slack, and a Google Doc held together with hope. Crayfish put the brief in one place — and, somehow, kept it there."

— P. Voss, partner at a fifteen-person print studio · cohort 3

—— frequently asked ——

Is there a price tag I can plan around?

The beta is free. Post-GA we expect to charge per studio (not per seat) at around the price of a decent monthly coffee subscription. Cohort members keep a permanent 30% discount.

Does it integrate with the tools we already use?

Read-only links to Figma, Notion, and Drive today. We have no plans to write into those tools — your brief stays the source of truth.

What about Windows and Linux?

Mac only during beta. A Windows port is on the roadmap for the year after GA. Linux is unlikely unless a studio sponsors it.

For studios of

Three to eighteen people. Bigger than that and the per-brief workflow stops being the bottleneck.

Where we are

Berlin, Lisbon, and a creaky kitchen table in Glasgow. Office hours weekdays 10–18 CET.

Pricing later

We expect to charge per studio, billed monthly, with the first three seats free. Beta members keep 30% off forever.

Privacy

No analytics in the app. Only the website carries a single cookie to remember if you've signed in.