We design brands, products, and interfaces that feel inevitable.

Rival is a brand and design engineering studio for ambitious startups and scaleups.

Trusted by teams backed by

In the Age of AI, brand and design have become the strongest hedge against accelerating sameness. We help ambitious teams turn both into their company’s competitive moat.

What we do

  • Brand

    Positioning, narrative, and identity systems that give companies clarity and edge.

  • Product

    UX, UI, research, and product strategy for complex, high-stakes software.

  • Website

    High-performance marketing sites and product interfaces that convert and scale.

  • Development

    MVPs and front-end builds that bring products to life quickly and cleanly.

Work we’re proud of

The Brandsider

Built an internal media platform focused on decoding the world's most magnetic brands. Scaled to 60k followers across platforms with millions of views.

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PQcal Trade

Supported a team of fintech veterans building the next Bloomberg terminal. We handled brand, strategy, web, and a mobile app that made complex trading data actually usable on the go.

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Founders Firm

Full brand, website, and digital presence for a legal practice built specifically for the tech industry — positioned as serious expertise without the big firm overhead.

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  • "Working with Rival felt different from day one. They got under the skin of what we were actually building and came back with thinking that was sharper than anything we'd have arrived at alone."

    —Marlin, Founder @ Fellow

  • “Parker was an awesome product design partner for us. He was excellent at zooming out and scoping big problems and subsequently producing high quality product designs that matched our existing design system.”

    —Ashland, CEO @ Because

  • “Rival's guidance made an otherwise overwhelming process enjoyable, and he went beyond aesthetics to develop a product that spoke directly to our ICP. The final work has left us both proud and excited to share Matcha with the world.”

    — Noah, CEO @ Matcha