Work04
Supa
Project facts
- Client
- Supa
- Sector
- Ambient agents for behavioral-health operations
- Stage
- After a $5M raise
- Year
- 2026
- Services
- Logo, brand system, website design, then ongoing product design
Situation
Supa builds agents that take admin off behavioral-health practices. Its buyers are finance and operations leads who distrust sentiment; its users are clinicians who distrust software. The brand had to speak to both, without fluff.
The reframe
What we saw
Software that asks clinicians to manage more.
What we said
Admin that disappears into the background, so care comes back to the front.
Humane, not sentimental: the promise is time back, said plainly.
The work
A brand system built from calm: natural imagery, a soft palette, glass product surfaces, and a written spec so the team and its tools can keep producing on-brand work.
Decisions
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insight
Humane, not sentimental.
What we chose Plain promises about time and attention, set against calm natural imagery.
Rejected
Soft-focus care imagery and emotional copy.Why Finance and operations leads buy outcomes; clinicians notice when they are being sold to.
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finding
Nature as the calm layer.
What we chose A photo direction of grass, water and light behind glass product surfaces.
Rejected
Clinical blues and stock photography of people at screens.Why The product’s job is to make admin recede; the imagery does the same.
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insight
A spec, not a deck.
What we chose The brand delivered as written documents covering the design system, motion and AI asset generation.
Rejected
A presentation of brand boards.Why A team that ships fast, with AI tools in the loop, needs rules it can follow, not pictures it has to interpret.
Outcome
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Delivery
Logo, brand system and website design, delivered as a twelve-document spec covering design system, motion and AI asset generation.
What we’d tell the next founder
In a sensitive sector, say the benefit plainly. Warmth comes from restraint.
Let the imagery do the calming, so the copy can stay specific.
Write the brand down as rules, for your team and for the AI tools they use.
Next
30 min · we name the first three things we’d change · written scope in 48 hours
