Start a project

Tell it badly. That is fine.

A rambling paragraph about the annoying thing you do by hand every week is more useful than a tidy specification. The questions come afterwards, and they are free.

Email

matt@canvasandcell.com

Every message gets a reply, including the ones the answer is no to.

What happens next

  1. A reply with questions, or with a fixed price and a date.
  2. A written scope list saying exactly what will be built.
  3. Half the fee books the time; the rest is due on delivery.

Optional, but it speeds things up

Build your brief here

Fill this in and it assembles a project brief you can copy or open straight in your email app. Nothing is sent from this page and nothing is stored — it is all happening in your browser, which is roughly how the things on this site tend to work.

What kind of project is it?

Your brief

Press Build the brief and it appears here, ready to copy.

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If you would rather just write an email

Four things worth including

None of these are required. Each one removes a round trip, which means a faster quote and usually a cheaper one.

  1. A real example, with real numbers

    One actual case, worked through as you do it now. A worked example settles more questions than three paragraphs of description.

  2. What happens today instead

    A spreadsheet, a laminated card, a WhatsApp thread, forty minutes on the phone. Knowing what is being replaced usually reveals a simpler answer.

  3. The deadline, if there is one

    Especially for events. A date makes it obvious very quickly whether the job is possible, and whether it should be smaller.

  4. Your budget, even roughly

    It is not a haggling move. It decides which version of the idea gets quoted, and it stops both of us designing something you did not want to pay for.

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