What we do

We take the backend.

We take the whole backend of your product business: ideation, design, funding, production, shipping, and the money side. You just promote. We split the net, reported line by line. You carry none of the cost and none of the inventory risk.

You already run a one-person studio. The bottleneck isn't ideas. It's everything around the idea: finding a factory, fronting the cash, running production, packing boxes, handling returns, reconciling the money. That's the stuff that eats your week and stalls your best work. We carry all of it, so you can do the part only you can do and show up for your people.

We do it through three engines.

Lead

Commerce Engine

Funded, done-for-you product drops. Premium and specialized, not logo merch. We pay for all of it. You post. We split the money. This is the core of what we do.

Production Engine

Managed ideation and production, run by a quiet back-office. It keeps your content and your drops shipping on schedule, even on a wild week.

Soon

Tandem OS

The system we build to run your business, opened up to you. Your whole studio in one place.

Common questions

Do I have to pay anything to work with Tandem?
No. There's no cost upfront to you. We fund the product, the shipping and the fees, then recover those costs from sales before we split the net. You put in your audience and your promotion. Not your money.
What kind of products do you make?
Premium, specialized, identity-driven product built around you and your audience, not generic logo merch. Every drop is made to order: pre-ordered before it's produced. So there's no leftover inventory and no race-to-the-bottom blank apparel.
How is this different from print-on-demand or Fanjoy?
Print-on-demand and traditional merch partners crank out generic apparel and often sit on inventory. We build premium, specialized product and pre-order every drop before we make it, so the risk is near zero and the product actually looks like your brand, not a logo on a blank.
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