Sign-off stalls because the client cannot see the work. Sending screenshots is not review, and giving them a WordPress account to look at a draft is worse.
Nothing about studio work is slow except waiting for somebody to look at it and say yes.
Staging is reachable by a shared link rather than an account, so a marketing director reviewing on a phone does not need onboarding to approve a homepage.
A crawlable staging copy competes with the client's live site. Indexing is blocked at the platform rather than by a file a deploy can overwrite.
Studios upload what the designer exported, which is far larger than a page should ship. Processing happens on upload so nobody has to remember.
A complete export the client can take in-house or to another supplier is what turns the end of a project into a delivery rather than a dependency.
Sites are isolated, so a client experimenting after handover cannot affect anything else you host.
Studio process assumes the person approving the work will look at it. Every hurdle between them and the page adds a day, and an account is a hurdle.
Work is judged in whatever conditions the client happens to be in, which is usually a phone on mobile data during a meeting.
The constraint is the client's attention, not the server's, and each row removes a step between them and an approval.
| Setting | What we do | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Staging access | Shared by link rather than requiring an account | The person approving the work is not a WordPress user, and creating a login for them adds a day to every review cycle. |
| Review indexing | Blocked at the platform, not by a file in the repository | A staging copy that gets crawled competes with the client's live site, and the file meant to prevent it is the one a deploy replaces. |
| Asset processing | Applied on upload at design resolution | Studios upload the designer's export rather than a web asset, and expecting somebody to resize it first means it will ship unresized. |
| Export at handover | Complete and available without our involvement | A project that cannot be handed over is a dependency rather than a delivery, and the client discovers that at the least convenient moment. |
| Project isolation | Enforced between client sites | Clients change things after handover, and that should never be able to reach another studio project on the same account. |
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