ISSA Project
A purpose-built application for interior, lighting, and architecture studios. Live with the team I coordinate — tracking 250+ active projects per year, end to end.
The problem
For two years, I tried to run a 250-project pipeline through tools that were not built for design.
Asana. Trello. Notion. ClickUp. Spreadsheets I kept rebuilding. Each one promised flexibility. Each one demanded that the team translate real design work into a generic vocabulary that did not fit. The result was always the same: weeks of adoption, months of erosion, eventual abandonment.
What broke, in every attempt, was not the tool. It was the connective tissue — the decisions, approvals, handoffs, and specifications that hold a project together. They lived in nine places at once and in no place reliably. And when leadership asked me real questions — about productivity, about bottlenecks, about whether to hire or let someone go — I had to answer with informed guesswork.
The cost of that gap is not measured in dropped tasks. It is measured in deals lost upstream of the design phase, deadlines missed because nobody knew the deadline was at risk, and decisions made for years on the wrong data.
I built ISSA Project to close that gap, the way design studios actually work.
How it works
Every active project visible at a glance, with the variables your business runs on: ownership, status, deadline risk, client-review pending, bottleneck flags. Not a generic kanban. The states a design pipeline actually moves through, named the way your studio names them.
Clients are kept informed automatically — through WhatsApp, professionally, in the channel they already use. Approvals, change requests, and decisions are logged against the project, not scattered across email threads and meeting notes. The commercial side and the design team see the same record.
Dashboards by team member, by project type, by segment. Where the studio is profitable. Where the bottlenecks live. Whether the conversion problem is in the design phase or somewhere upstream. Within the first months of running it on my team, the system surfaced two findings that had been hidden in spreadsheets for years: a productivity gap concentrated in specific people, and a conversion drag we had been blaming on design that was, in fact, coming from a different team altogether.
When a design phase closes, specifications, BOMs, and approvals flow automatically to whoever quotes, sources, or sells. No re-keying. No missing fixtures. No "wait, what was the brand on this?" three weeks into procurement.
Screenshots & demo video
Live walkthrough and product imagery coming soon to this section. In the meantime, request a personalized demo via the form below.
Who it is for
Architecture, interior, and lighting studios running concurrent projects with multiple designers per project. Studios with high-detail deliverables — millwork shop drawings, fixture schedules, finish books — that get lost in generic PM tools. Studios scaling past five people, where ad-hoc communication starts to break and ownership becomes fuzzy. Studios that bill by phase or milestone and need clean handoffs between design, commercial, and execution.
If your leadership is asking you for numbers and you are answering with informed guesswork, ISSA was designed for the question they are actually asking.
Onboarding
ISSA is not a SaaS template you adapt to. It is configured to match how your studio actually works — your phases, your deliverables, your naming conventions, your client-review cadence, your handoff to whoever sells.
Onboarding includes structured discovery of your current workflow, custom configuration, team training, and 30 days of launch support. Pricing is per studio, not per seat. One-time investment, not recurring subscription.
Tell me about your studio, your team size, and where things break down today. I will come back with a personalized walkthrough and a quote within 48 hours.