Who it is for
Established brands
Volume, seats and a house look that has to hold across everyone using it.
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How does this work for a larger brand?
The difficulty at scale is not one good image, it is four hundred that look like one brand while six people are making them. Team seats put everyone on the same account with roles, saved models and shared location settings, so consistency is the default rather than something a reviewer has to enforce afterwards.
The problem changes at scale
A large catalogue's difficulty is not making one good image. It is making four hundred that look like they came from the same brand, when six people are making them.
Seats, not shared logins
Invite your team as owner, admin or member. A member can generate; the billing and the keys stay with you.
A house model and a house room
Save the models and reuse the same location settings, so what leaves the team is consistent by default rather than by review.
Built for
Who this is for
Catalogue teams
Several people producing imagery that has to look like one brand.
Multi channel retailers
One catalogue that has to satisfy a storefront and five marketplaces.
Brands with a house face
A saved model who appears across a whole season and the season after.
Merchandising and ops
Volume, predictability, and a ledger that shows where the spend went.
Why this rather than a shoot
Seats with roles
Owner, admin and member. A member generates; billing, keys and settings stay with you.
Saved models and rooms
The house look is a saved record, not an instruction repeated in a document nobody reads.
Batches at volume
Forty references at a time, resuming after an interruption rather than stranding credits.
An auditable ledger
Append only, debited before generating and refunded on failure, so spend reconciles.
Side by side
Against a studio shoot
| Feature | Flatlay Studio | Studio shoot |
|---|---|---|
| Time to first frame | About thirty seconds | Days, after the booking |
| Booking required | None | Model, photographer, location |
| Models to cast | 39 across six segments | Whoever is available |
| Reshoot one frame | One frame, minutes | A second shoot day |
| Colourways | Generated from the same set | Photograph each one |
| Marketplace crops | Five ratios, included | Edited by hand afterwards |
| Listing copy | Written with the set | Written separately |
The numbers
The arithmetic
What a season of catalogue photography actually takes, either way.
| Studio shoot | With Flatlay | |
|---|---|---|
| Forty new pieces | Two to three shoot days | An afternoon, in one batch |
| Lead time | Weeks, on somebody else's calendar | None. Start when the sample lands |
| A piece you forgot | Wait for the next booking | Generate it that evening |
| Six colourways | Six times the shoot | From the set you already have |
| Restock next season | Rebook, and hope she is free | The same model, on demand |
The cost that hurts is rarely the invoice. It is the pieces that never get photographed, because a shoot has a fixed capacity and your catalogue does not.
How it runs
- 01
Send one photograph
A phone shot on your studio floor, a flat lay, or a link. No lighting, no model, no booking.
- 02
Choose the shoot
Twelve locations, thirty-nine models across six segments, three resolutions. Or describe a room of your own.
- 03
It generates
Four or five frames chained to each other, so the model, the room and the light hold across the set.
- 04
Take the listing
Frames, copy, size chart, costed price and marketplace crops, ready to upload.
Questions
- How do team seats work?
- Seats share the owner account. Roles are owner, admin and member, and a member can generate without touching billing or keys.
- Can we keep a consistent house look?
- Yes. Save the models and reuse the location and resolution settings across every batch.
- Is there an API?
- Yes, with a key you can rotate from settings.
- How is spend tracked?
- An append only credit ledger. Every generation is debited before it runs and refunded if it fails.
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