The client portal
A private instrument: intake, agreement, progress, delivery.
THE THRESHOLD · PROJECTS.STUDIOKILN.IO · 1440×900
THE PUBLIC SIGN-IN DOOR · CAPTURED 2026-08-11Commissions used to run on email, a spreadsheet, and a folder that took two attempts to find. The portal replaced all three, and it is two rooms rather than one. Operate is the instrument panel: every lead, project, agreement and invoice in one list, ordered by what is waiting on whom. Deliver is what a client sees: no chrome, one project, entered by a link in an email.
Every document it hands over is the studio's own paper, rendered by the system itself. Stripe moves the money and Documenso witnesses the signature; neither of them draws a page.
Nothing from a real account appears here. The screen below is the sign-in door, which is all a stranger ever sees, and the register beside it is drawn rather than captured.
Product work is taken under the same commission as a site, and it goes further: the flows, the states nobody screenshots, and the database under them. What a product design and build includes →
- What was made
- Product design, two interfaces, and the build
- What it runs
- Lead intake → qualifying → account → work → agreement → invoice → delivery → archive
- Built with
- Next.js · Postgres · TypeScript
- Third parties
- Stripe for payment, Documenso for signature. Neither renders a surface
- Access
- Private. A client enters by an emailed link; there is no password to keep
- Live
- projects.studiokiln.io · sign-in only
- Year
- 2026
THE THRESHOLD ON A PHONE
THE PUBLIC SIGN-IN DOOR · CAPTURED 2026-08-11手 · THE HAND
AM HALFTONE · VOID ON PAPER| № | Stage | State | What it means |
|---|---|---|---|
| · | Intake | Read | From the site's own form |
| · | Qualifying | Open | A call, or a no |
| · | Account | Opened | Magic link, no password |
| · | Agreement | Signed | Studio paper, witnessed |
| · | Invoice | Paid | Studio paper, Stripe |
| · | Delivery | Handed over | Files, and the rules for them |
| · | Archive | Closed | The record stays |
THE REGISTER · DRAWN, NOT CAPTURED
THE LIFECYCLE, IN THE PORTAL'S OWN WORDS · NO REAL ROWTHE ASK
Taking work now.
Say what needs making. Answered personally, within a day.