Our Story

We're fixing how creative teams work.

Design collaboration was broken long before we set out to fix it. We just got tired of waiting for someone else to do it.

Why we built this

In 2022, our founding team was running a design consultancy in Seattle. Every project meant the same ritual: files attached to emails, feedback buried in threads, clients confused about which version was current, developers asking questions the mockups had already answered.

We tried every combination of tools on the market. Some were powerful but required a week of onboarding. Others were simple but fell apart once a real client got involved. Nothing connected the whole workflow — upload, review, approve, hand off — in a way that felt natural to how creative teams actually worked.

So in early 2022, Andrea Orrego and Marcus Webb started building Atelier. Not as a side project — as the only way to fix a problem they'd tried to work around for three years. The focus from day one was a single premise: if the tool is good enough, people will actually use it. Clients included.

Atelier team collaborating in Seattle office

2022 Founded

Started in Seattle, WA by a small team who had enough of design chaos.

Seattle Based in Seattle, WA

Pacific Northwest roots. Design culture, engineering depth, real winters.

18 Team Members

Small enough to move fast. Experienced enough to get things right.

2,400+ Customers

Creative teams across in-house studios, agencies, and growing startups.

How We Think

What guides us

Move fast, stay deliberate

Speed matters, but not more than getting it right. We ship often and iterate constantly — but we don't cut corners on the parts users depend on. Fast and sloppy is just sloppy with more steps.

Design is a team sport

The best design decisions happen in rooms (or Atelier workspaces) where designers, clients, and developers are looking at the same thing together. We build tools that make that possible without the friction.

Every file deserves context