Above the Work

The business is usually not the problem.

Most design firm owners have already figured out how to do the work. The design is good. The clients are there. And yet something keeps getting in the way of the business flowing the way it should.

Above the Work is a quarterly letter for design firm owners who are ready to look at the business itself. Not the projects, not the next hire, not the next client. The decisions, patterns, and blind spots that sit above all of it.

Each issue draws from the same ideas Kate brings to the stage and into advisory work: how founder-led businesses get stuck, what it actually takes to lead one well, and what it looks like when someone finally decides to build it differently.

It is free. It arrives quarterly. It will not waste your time.