You're doing everything yourself.
That stops here.
Your studio has the clients. It has the talent. What it's missing is an operations manager who knows the design world from the inside. I run your inbox, your onboarding, your follow ups, the exports and file save outs sitting in your queue at midnight. You focus on the creative work. I make sure it gets out the door.
You're booked.
Clients love you.
And you're still at your laptop at 9pm.
You built something real. Clients love you. Referrals keep coming in. And you still checked your email before you got out of bed this morning.
The design work was never the problem. The problem is everything around it still runs through you. The onboarding. The inbox. The invoices. The follow ups. Every day. Every time. Nothing catches it if you don't.
Three client emails before coffee. Every damn morning. Your Dubsado or HoneyBook is half set up and you're the only thing keeping it running. A client went quiet mid project and you have no system to catch it. You want to take on more work but you literally can't. There's nothing left of you to give.
You tried the YouTube tutorials (made it worse). You ground through it yourself until you hit a wall. You hired a VA and spent more time managing her than you saved.
Nothing worked because none of it was the real fix. You cannot design your way out of a backend that was never built to run without you. The only way out is to stop doing work that was never yours to do. Hand it to someone who actually knows your world.
Let's be real
why hire me?
Here's why you hire me and not the next OBM in your DMs.
I ran the backend of my own photography business before I ran anyone else's.
Clients who ghosted me. Invoices I couldn't track down. My own 9pm inbox spiral.
I'm not guessing what fixes your chaos. I needed the fix first.
TWO offers.
One clear path.
All of it done for you.
Here's what working together looks like
the studio partner
I run your studio's backend every single week so you never have to. Inbox, onboarding, offboarding, invoices, folders, newsletters, website updates, brand asset exports and file save outs, every piece your clients never see. You focus on the design. I make sure everything behind it gets done, and you always know what's happening without asking.
Starting from $1500/month based on scope
Ongoing Studio Operations Support for Brand and Web Designers
the studio sprint
Your systems already exist. One piece is broken or missing. Onboarding process, client folders, newsletter setup, website updates, brand exports, whatever the gap is. I come in, fix that one thing, and get out clean. No ongoing commitment, no retainer, just the gap closed.
$650
Completed in 1-2 weeks
One fix, not a whole rebuild
I'm Michaila.
I work with brand and web designers only, and that is extremely on purpose.
I ran my own photography business before this. Clients ghosted me. No-showed sessions I'd blocked my whole day for. I had contracts scattered across email threads and invoices nobody could find, mine included.
So I taught myself Dubsado to fix my own chaos before I ever touched anyone else's. Somewhere in there I realized I loved building the system more than I loved the shoot. Turns out I'm wired for this part. So now I run the backend for designers instead of chasing my own clients around.
No explaining what Dubsado is. No babysitting. Just someone who shows up and knows what she's doing.
I also run on caffeine and chaotic romantasy kingdoms. If you have a curated desk aesthetic and a secret obsession with fantasy book boyfriends, we're going to get along embarrassingly well.
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Don't take my word for it. Take theirs.
After working inside studios like yours, I'm pretty particular about what I recommend. Everything on this list has earned its place, whether it is software I use daily or a community I genuinely believe in.
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