Storey
madebystorey@outlook.com
Brand · Website · App
Wren

The calm back office for people who work for themselves.

Wren is a booking, payments, and client app for independent service pros — the photographers, coaches, and studio owners who are brilliant at the work and tired of chasing the admin.

Role
Brand, website & app
Type
Concept-to-launch
Category
Service-pro SaaS
Studio
Storey
01 — The idea

Solo pros didn't need more software. They needed one calm place.

A photographer shouldn't run their business across a calendar app, a payment link, three email threads, and a sticky note. Wren's whole premise is subtraction: one place that holds the booking, the money, and the client — and gets out of the way. The brand had to feel like that too. Warm, unhurried, quietly competent. Not another loud productivity tool.

Warm, not corporate

A pine-and-clay palette and a reading serif make it feel like a well-kept studio, not a dashboard. Software that respects your taste.

One idea, three surfaces

The same voice and feel carry from the marketing site to the booking screen to the payment receipt. Nothing hands off; nothing drifts.

Calm by design

Generous space, plain language, one clear action per screen. The product feels like a deep breath, which is exactly what the buyer is buying.

02

The brand system

Wren
Wordmark + mark
Palette
Paper
Pine
Clay
Ink

Pine leads, clay warms, paper breathes. High contrast where it counts, quiet everywhere else.

Typography
Aa Aa
NewsreaderHeadlines · editorial serif
FigtreeUI & body · humanist sans
Voice — a little dry, never cold
  • You do the work. Wren does the rest.
  • Booked, paid, and off your plate.
  • No more ‘just circling back on that invoice.’
03

The website

The marketing site sells the feeling first: space to breathe, one promise, one button. Everything a solo pro sees before they trust you with their livelihood.

wren.studio

Run your practice from one calm place.

Booking, payments, and client messages — together at last, and quiet about it. Built for the independent pro who'd rather be doing the work.

Start free → See how it works
Bookings that book themselves

Share one link. Clients pick a time, pay a deposit, and land on your calendar. You approve nothing you don't want to.

Money, minus the awkward

Invoices, deposits, and reminders go out on their own. The ‘did you get my payment’ conversation retires for good.

One thread per client

Every message, file, and session in a single tidy place — so you look as organized as you actually are.

04

The app

The same idea, carried onto the small screen. One clear action per view, the brand's warmth intact, and nothing a stressed founder has to think about twice.

9:41Wren
Book a session
Elise Warren Photography · 60 min
Tue
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Wed
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Thu
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9:00 AMOpen
11:30 AMSelected
2:00 PMOpen
4:30 PMOpen
Confirm & pay deposit
Client booking — pick, pay, done
9:41Wren
Morning, Elise
EW
Three sessions today. You're all set.
3
Today
$1.4k
This week
0
Chasing
Today's schedule
10:00
AM
Priya & Sam
Engagement · Deposit paid
11:30
AM
The Okafor family
Portraits · New booking
2:00
PM
Brightleaf Co.
Headshots · Paid in full
Your day — everything, at a glance
9:41Wren
Your booking
$150.00
Deposit paid
SessionEngagement
WhenWed, Aug 13 · 11:30
WhereMemory Grove Park
Balance due$350 · on the day
From Elise

So excited for you two! I'll bring a blanket in case it's chilly — wear whatever makes you feel like you. See you Wednesday.

Client portal — calm, confirmed, human