The studio OS for interior designers who are done running a practice on WhatsApp.
Get client sign-off on your FF&E schedule before procurement closes. Stop the revision loops that quietly eat your design fee. Coordinate consultants, contractors, and clients on one canvas — through every RIBA stage from Pre-Concept to Handover.
Six-stage workflow · FF&E approvals · Consultant coordination · Free to start
Your Tuesday morning, before Tangent.
You open WhatsApp to seventeen messages from three clients, a contractor chasing a finish spec, and your junior asking which version of the moodboard to send. The shared Drive has four folders called "FINAL". Your DD pack is in someone's inbox. You haven't billed Stage 03 yet because you can't remember whether the client signed it off — or only said "looks great" on a voice note.
The same Tuesday, with Tangent.
One screen: three live projects, every stage with a status, every pending approval with a name and a date. The client signed off your Concept pack on Friday — it's logged, timestamped, and tied to the invoice you're about to send. Your contractor sees only the Tender pack. Your junior sees only her tasks. You see everything, and nothing is on fire.
The six stages your practice already runs on.
Not "Concept → Procurement → Install". The real framework — the one you list on your fee proposal. Each stage has its own deliverables, its own sign-off, its own fee tranche.
Pre-Design & Brief
Concept Design
Schematic Design
Design Development
Tender & Procurement
Construction & Handover
Built around the moments your fee actually depends on.
Client sign-off that's actually defensible
Request approval on a specific deliverable from a specific client. They tap approve. You bill the stage. No more chasing a screenshot of a thumbs-up on WhatsApp.
Clients only ever see what's ready for them
Your client opens Tangent and sees the pack you sent — not your half-finished DD drawings, not the contractor's quotes, not your internal notes.
Your projects stay yours
Every studio is fully isolated. No shared workspaces, no crossed wires, no chance of your villa client seeing the hospitality pitch next door.
Stage gating that protects your timeline
Tender stays locked until DD is approved. Construction stays locked until tender closes. The workflow enforces what your fee proposal already promised.
Every decision lives next to the work
Comments thread inside the task. Approvals attach to the deliverable. When the contractor asks why finish 04B changed, you have the trail.
Renders, schedules, and links in one place
Drag in moodboards, FF&E schedules, consultant drawings, or Pinterest links. The single source of truth your shared Drive was supposed to be.
Made for how projects actually run in the GCC.
Phased villa fit-outs. Consultant coordination across MEP, structural, and landscape. Developer–client dynamics where the person who briefs you isn't the person who signs off. DM submissions, contractor handovers, and snagging rounds that stretch across months. Tangent was shaped by a studio working through exactly this, not adapted from a US-coast SaaS template.
Start your next project in Tangent.
Five minutes to a live project with stages, your team, and your first client invited. No credit card, no migration, no commitment.