Vidual Spaces
Cloud storage for studios that take craft seriously.
If you have grown out of your current cloud storage, find it a dull place to spend your day, and wonder, with mild and recurring irritation, why it never quite got any better, Vidual Spaces is for you. We built it for the studios who have spent the last decade making a virtue of their own taste, and would like the software they store their work inside to do the same.
Fourteen days, no card required; bring one project, see whether it feels better.
What it is
An asset home that runs on your own domain, dressed in your fonts and your colours, rather than someone else’s idea of what file management ought to look like.
Search is built around how designers actually remember things — the words a project lived by while it was running, the producer who held it together, the month it finally shipped — rather than around the exact filename typed, in haste, into a tiny grey box. Folders nest the way the work nests, which is to say messily and without warning, and the interface forgives you for the third time you have, in the same afternoon, asked for a file called something close to but not exactly the thing you saved it as.
When something is ready to go out, the upload itself becomes the moment of handoff: drop the files into the area they belong to, tag whoever owes you a yes, and the approval lives on the file — visible, decisive, and findable a year later when somebody asks who signed off on what. The team learns about the upload the moment it lands, so nobody is forwarding emails, chasing chat threads, or trying to remember which channel held the conversation that mattered.
Permissions scale with how studios actually delegate, rather than with how Active Directory imagines they ought to: clients see what they were sent, freelancers see what they were brought on for, account leads see everything, and the bookkeeper never has to ask again whose Dropbox account is paying for what. Pricing follows storage, not seats, so adding a junior or a freelancer for a fortnight does not double the bill on the way out.
Who it’s for
Made for studios at the size where everyone matters.
We had in mind, when we started, a studio of roughly a dozen people: two or three directors, a couple of producers, one more designer than there are seats around the largest table, and the kind of part-time bookkeeper whose questions about why Dropbox has somehow become six hundred pounds a month nobody quite knows how to answer. The brief was not to build the biggest tool in the category, nor the cheapest one, but the right one for that studio — one whose interface they would not be embarrassed to share with a client over Zoom, whose pricing they could explain to the bookkeeper in a sentence, and whose search would forgive them, every time, for not remembering whether the photograph was filed under Hoxton, or Q3-launch, or final-final-v3.psd.
Try it for a fortnight.
Fourteen days, no card. Sign up with an email, claim a subdomain you can rename later, and put one project’s files inside. If it does not feel better than what you are using now, leave; we will not chase you, and your data exports cleanly in formats other tools can read.