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Some cool stuff we're working on. Live experiments, prototypes and tools being built across the COLAB group. Things here are unfinished on purpose - that's the point.

Group Tool · Live

Email Signature Generator

One tool for every brand in the group. Pick a company, type a name, tick which group brands show in the footer - copy a pixel-perfect, on-CI email signature straight into your mail client.

Open the tool →

Digital Can Printing · Live

3D Can Renderer

A photoreal 330ml sleek can, spinning in the browser. Upload your label artwork and see it wrapped around the can in real time - the future of "send us your artwork and imagine it".

Spin the can →

Creative Studio · Live

POSM Explorer

An interactive store walk. Scroll through a retail environment and watch point-of-sale displays come alive - our render-animation concept for pitching POSM the way shoppers actually meet it.

Take the walk →

ABC Labels · Prototype

Quote Me - Instant Flexo Quoting

How many labels? How many colours? Pick a die. Whammy - cost per 1,000, instantly (MOQ 5,000). The Google Sheets quoting brain, rebuilt as a web app anyone can use.

Get a price →

FieldTeam · Prototype

FieldView

Installation capture for crews in the field - OPUS4BUSINESS, slimmed down. Log the job, snap photos, GPS-stamp the visit, tally packs and facings per SKU, and generate a client-ready compliance report before you've left the parking lot. AI shelf-scan from photos on the roadmap.

Capture a visit →

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Creative Studio · Internal

CO System

Creative Order - our internal brief and order workflow system. It runs the studio behind the scenes. Staff sign in with the shared studio password to raise a sequentially-numbered CO.

Sign in to the CO System →

Retail2GO · Concept

Retail2GO

Modular retail branding, ordered online. A generic catalogue of POSM units where only the branding changes - pick a unit, drop artwork on the die, auto-quote with national delivery built in, and the order drops into COLAB DM. The Shopify of shopper marketing.

See the concept →

Review Tool · Concept

Happy Sad

The 10-second QR review tool. Happy shoppers get funnelled to your Google review page; unhappy ones are caught privately and routed to the store - email + SMS to the manager - for an instant fix. Reviving an old winner, aimed at SPAR & BuildIt.

See the concept →

Shopper Marketing · Concept

Theory of Shopping

Our point of view on how people really buy - a circular, non-linear shopping cycle fused with the path to purchase. The COLAB Theory of Shopping v3.77, as a working canvas to keep sharpening.

Open the canvas →

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