Studio East

Stay Creative

The whole back office for independent creatives. They stay creative; we handle the rest.

A Studio East venture

Brilliant at creating. Lost at running a business.

  • Five jobs at once

    Accounting, legal, IP, marketing and management all land on day one.

  • Costly mistakes

    A botched VAT claim. Work left unprotected, and now owned by someone else.

  • Stitched together

    Five services, five bills, and nobody owning the whole picture.

The whole back office, from day one.

Accounting, legal, IP, PR, marketing and consulting, delivered as one bundle instead of five separate services.

The creative stays the CEO and the owner. They become an entrepreneur without becoming someone else, and never have to touch the parts they don’t enjoy.

AI does the volume. People sign off on the risk.

Expensive experts only ever touch the tricky five percent. The AI makes it affordable; the human makes it safe.

  1. AI agents

    Drafting, categorising, filings and first passes, at volume.

  2. An in-house specialist per field

    Signs off anything with legal or financial weight.

  3. Top-tier firms, by subscription

    Absorb the overflow as volume grows.

Who we work with first.

  • Breakout employees

    Talented people whose creativity an employer owns, ready to work for themselves.

  • Young artists

    Starting right, independent, from day one.

  • Then, studios

    Micro and small creative businesses already trading.

Pay in cash, or with a stake in your future.

  • Subscription

    One monthly fee for every function, tiered by how many clients and products you have.

  • Equity for operations

    Give 10 to 20 percent of your company, depending on how active it is, and hand over the whole business engine. You stay CEO.

Built to be bought back.

When you grow big enough to run your own departments, there is a clean way out, agreed up front.

  1. Call option

    Above an agreed size, buy back our stake at a pre-set formula, so nobody argues about it later.

  2. Optional step-down

    Buy back the operational stake and keep us as a small long-term shareholder, if we both want that.

  3. Six-month handover

    We help you stand up your own team before we step away.

A small creative workforce, and a wave of new independents.

25,000+
new independents registered in Romania from January to May 2026, up about 50%.
1.8%
of jobs in Romania are in culture, the lowest share in the EU. The EU average is 4.3%.

Sources: Banca Transilvania, Ziarul Financiar, EY.

Stay creative. We handle the rest.

Every creative who quits because of paperwork is a loss for all of us. If you’re going independent, or already are, write to us.

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