We design how a space feels. We build it. Then we fill it.
We design and build commercial hospitality spaces: members clubs, restaurants, bars, and hotels. Then we run the marketing that fills them. One team, from the first sketch to opening night.
Two minutes and a handful of questions. At the end you get a straight answer on how we would approach the project, and a call with our co-founder if you want one.
You've seen our work. You just didn't know it was ours.
Ambitious ideas die in handoffs.
Bringing a space, stage, or brand to life usually means a dozen vendors who have never met, and every handoff is a chance to blow the timeline, the budget, or the vision. We come from film and television, where impossible worlds get built on deadlines that don't move. One team. One standard. One number to call when something moves.
One partner, from concept to opening night.
Selected work
Members clubs, restaurants, and main stages. Before that, spaceships, caves, and castles.
Members clubs in two cities, sculptural lighting, main stages, and film sets. Sixty-five years of combined design and production experience behind every project.
Process
We build the dream and the blueprint.
Every space starts as a drawing that an engineer can read and ends as a room a guest can feel. We develop the design in house, hand build-ready documentation to licensed architects and structural, electrical, and plumbing engineers, and stay on the project through fabrication and install. Nothing gets lost in translation. Nothing gets billed twice.
RENDEREDThe Portal Austin 
BUILTThe Portal Marin
How it works.
One conversation, not five.
We run a single structured intake covering the space, the operation, and the audience. It is the same session an architectural firm would run, except we also leave with everything the marketing needs. Take the two-minute assessment or book a call with our co-founder and creative director.
We design and deliver it.
Creative developed in-house, architects and trades coordinated in their own language, built with production discipline. On time. On budget.
Open loud, grow louder.
Marketing, AI, and merch keep the momentum compounding long after opening night.
of combined design, production, and build experience
built and installed on location
Built with conviction.
We do not value-engineer the idea out of the room. We find the way to build it, and we finish on the date. We build the dream and the blueprint.
Tell us what you are building.
Bring the plans, the site, or just an opening date. We will tell you how we would deliver it, what it takes, and what it costs.
Two minutes and a handful of questions. At the end you get a straight answer on how we would approach the project, and a call with our co-founder if you want one.