How we work

Real problems. Practical fixes. Occasionally clever ones.

Here's what we actually do for teams, from quick wins to bigger builds. If you see your situation somewhere in here, that's the idea.

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Who we work with

The teams we know best

  • A small team of creative people. Constant demand from across the business. An ever-growing list of formats to produce. We help these teams set up properly, work faster, and produce consistently, without burning out the people doing it.

  • Communications teams with high output requirements, strict brand standards, and limited internal resource. We build the systems, templates, and workflows that make consistent, on-brand production possible without a large team.

  • Product catalogues, seasonal campaigns, always-on social. The volume is relentless and the brief is always "same thing, slightly different." We build the systems that make that manageable.

  • We still work with agencies and studios, particularly on scaling production capacity or fixing workflow problems that have grown faster than the team.

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Common problems we solve

  • "We have one designer doing the work of three."

    This is where we usually start. We look at everything landing on that person, work out what should stay with them and what can be systematised, templated, or handed off, then build the tools and processes to make it happen.

  • "Our social posts look different every time."

    Sometimes that’s a good thing! We build a proper set of guardrails, locked where it needs to be and flexible where the team needs room, in whatever tool they're already using. Consistent output without needing a designer every time.

  • "Our newsletter takes half a day to build every week."

    It shouldn't. We build proper templates in your platform of choice, sort the workflow around it, and usually cut production time significantly.

  • "We need a better system for posters, banners, and digital assets."

    We set up a structured production system with brand-locked setups, clear naming, the right folder structure, and export presets for every format. If the volume warrants automation, we build it.

  • "We want to use new tools and AI but don't know what's actually worth it."

    We'll tell you honestly what earns its place in your specific workflow and what's just noise, then set it up and train your team to use it properly.

  • "We need to grow the team but don't know how to structure it."

    We can help, from defining the roles you actually need, to onboarding and training new creative staff so they're productive quickly and working in a way that makes the whole team better.

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Specific Examples

What this looks like

A few examples of the kind of work each tier covers.

Available as one off or ongoing support.

    • Auditing a small team's week and removing the manual steps quietly eating into it

    • Locked templates a non-designer can update and export in minutes, not hours

    • Shared project, colour and export presets set up across an editing team

    • A recurring piece of work, like a newsletter, rebuilt to take a fraction of the time

    • A simple design system for campaign materials, master pages and export presets included

    • A short session on faster editing that hands a team back most of its revision time

    • Mapping a team's workflow, finding the redundant steps, rebuilding around fewer

    • Connecting project management and accounting so a job gets set up once, not three times

    • A custom panel that turns a repetitive layout task into one click

    • Brand guidelines the whole team can apply, not just the design lead

    • Helping a team hire and onboard a junior creative who's productive fast

    • A system that turns one approved template into hundreds of variations, across SKUs, markets and specs

    • Turning a single design into a full asset set: posters, banners, social and email

    • Using AI image generation to compress concept-to-approval time

    • A brief-in, deliverables-out pipeline, with human decisions kept at the points that matter

    • Restructuring a comms team: defining the roles, hiring into them, setting up the tools, training everyone

Western SYdney Startup Hub and Spacecubed

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A digital logo featuring a 3D geometric shape with purple, blue, orange, and aqua sections, next to the white text 'spacecUBed' on a dark gradient background.
Collage of photos from a weekly morning tea event organized by Western Sydney Startup Hub, featuring groups of people smiling and socializing indoors, with decorative flowers, food, and a piano in the background, sponsored by Tech Ready Women and The Founders Union.
Collage of photos from a weekly morning tea event organized by Western Sydney Startup Hub, featuring groups of people smiling and socializing indoors, with decorative flowers, food, and a piano in the background, sponsored by Tech Ready Women and The Founders Union.
Aerial view of Western Sydney, showing dense city skyscrapers and surrounding green parks. Labels highlight Parramatta CBD, Parramatta Square, and Light Rail Stop. Western Sydney Startup Hub logo is in the bottom left corner.
Aerial view of Western Sydney, showing dense city skyscrapers and surrounding green parks. Labels highlight Parramatta CBD, Parramatta Square, and Light Rail Stop. Western Sydney Startup Hub logo is in the bottom left corner.
Logo of Western Sydney Startup Hub, powered by SpaceCubed, on a dark background.
Logo of Western Sydney Startup Hub, powered by SpaceCubed, on a dark background.

Western Sydney Startup Hub is a thriving co-working space located in the picturesque historical sandstone buildings of North Parramatta.

They needed an easily updatable but professional video to promote their wide range of events. Orbi Labs created bespoke animations and mixed them with assets that the internal team could quickly update on a regular basis.

Resulting in a monthly update, rather than using a 2 year old video.

Allied Risk Solutions

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A highway with multiple lanes filled with cars and motorcycles, featuring digital boxes and annotations indicating a vehicle recognition system, with the logo and text 'Allied Risk Security Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR)' at the bottom.
Logo for Allied Risk Security above the text 'Solar Powered Mobile CCTV' with a partnership logo for National Integrated Services.
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A large, modern building with a metal roof, surrounded by parking areas and a fence. The image is overlaid with a list of features including 'Self-contained,' 'Solar powered,' 'Battery backup,' 'Continuous operation,' and 'Quick deployment.'

Allied needed a suite of assets across internal templates, external collateral material and video to sell their wide range of expertise across training, compliance and security in the entertainment and retail sectors.

Working with their internal team, and selected external suppliers Orbi Labs provided assets, templates and guidance on the different aspects of their needs.

Orbi Labs engagement covered creative, production, workflow improvements, consulting and marketing support.

Kinemat

Kinemat is a Celux and Orbi Labs niche app designed to help real estate agents easily create videos from their listings for socials and website. It takes information from existing sources to avoid double handling.

Orbi Labs created the video engine and marketing collateral.

A combination of production and workflow that could be applied to internal processes.

Sound like something your team needs?

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