Your creative strategy is stuck. Let's find out why and fix it.
Corbie is a creative-operations practice for companies that have outgrown one designer, one freelancer, or one overloaded owner. We start by finding what is actually broken, then build the right-sized answer. Behind it is a bigger dream: a community of independent creatives who share the work, the learning, and the upside.
Crows study the puzzle before they reach for the tool. So do we.
Discovery.
You tell us what you think the problem is. No cost, no pitch. We read it, pull out what stood out, and spend about twenty minutes on it together.
Diagnosis.
A plain read on what is broken, what is fine, and what size of help fits. Hire, freelance, build a team, or nothing at all.
Design.
You get a full blueprint of the design and everything needed to build it and scale it, scoped in writing before anything starts. Sometimes the honest answer is that you do not need us, and we will say so.
Pick a door.
Services
Fractional leadership, conference and event support, brand retrospectives, and a diagnostic that starts it all.
EvidenceThe Proof
Case studies. Method in, names out.
The archiveCorbie Cof
The build, logged by Callie, Claude, and ChatGPT.
Where this goesThe Dream
Community, then Collective, then Cultivated. Plus a Crowfolio, filled in.
InteractiveBrand guidelines
Colors, type, voice, and light, all clickable.
The ignition.
I'm Callie, the ignition behind Corbie. I have built and led in-house creative teams at two firms. After my role was “replaced by AI and vendors,” I wasn't sure what I wanted to do next. I loved my team, and I loved the energy that came from coaching and building different pieces of design each day.
I applied to a few roles and realized I wouldn't get far without a portfolio to show what I could do. With my designs locked under an NDA, I knew I'd be starting from scratch. So now I'm using Claude and ChatGPT as my tools to build Corbie in public: a portfolio and a promise.
Cof is the build journal behind Corbie. It started as a way to track what I did each day and the progress I was making, and to give Claude something to reference, since every chat basically started over, even inside projects.
It comes from the idea that “AI and vendors” were supposedly going to replace me. (Hilarious, considering how many times I had to teach people at my firm basic PowerPoint.) So I set out to learn how to work better with the new tools and see what I could build.
The log shows how I improve over time, and it is honest about what I used AI for and which ideas and designs were mine.