Brand, site, payments and a gated member platform. No chain involved anywhere in it.
Details
Duration
6
months
Category
Venture
scope
Branding
Website
Overview
Global Coin Research needed more than a website. They needed a working members platform, with research, deal flow and co-investment access behind a login, and payments to go with it.
A small team was going to run it day to day. Anything that needed a developer to change a headline was going to stop being updated.
Approach
Designed and built the site in Framer rather than as a custom development project
Set up the CMS for research content and portfolio company listings
Integrated Thenty.io for payments and user management, which Framer doesn't do natively
Delivered a light brand uplift alongside the build
Kept supporting the team after launch
"Mat & Jon helped us translate the Global Coin Research vision into a site that truly reflects our community and mission. They led the full design and build with clarity, speed, and strong product thinking. The team was thoughtful, detail oriented, and highly collaborative throughout. Even after launch, they continued supporting us proactively. It felt like working with real partners who genuinely cared about the outcome."
Global Coin Research
Arthur
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Core Member
The Call
A members platform with payments, gated content and accounts is a custom build. That's the standard answer, and it's the one with the bigger fee attached.
We built it in Framer and used Thenty.io for the payments and user management Framer doesn't handle.
The reason is what happens after launch. GCR publishes research constantly with a small team. On a custom platform every content change goes through a developer they don't have, and a platform that stops getting updated is worse than one that looks less bespoke.
It cost us the bigger engagement and some technical headroom. What it bought is a site their team ran themselves for over a year.
Outcomes
Six months from brief to a working members platform, carrying research, deal flow and co-investment access with payments behind it. Their team then ran it for over a year, publishing and updating without a developer and without us.