The story

the small plan in the corner of the sheet

keyplan is the studio operating system for Singapore interior design and renovation firms. This page is why it exists, why it carries this name, and what it will always stand for.

The name

On every architectural drawing sheet there is a small plan in the corner. It is called the key plan, and it does one quiet job: it shows where this sheet sits inside the whole building.

TITLE BLOCK SHEET A-103 · LEVEL 1
KEY PLAN
every sheet carries one · the small map that says where you are

A busy firm needs exactly that. Not another dashboard, but the small, always-present map that shows where everything stands. Which lead is going quiet. Which site runs this week. Which dollar is still unbilled.

That is the product's whole job, so it became the name. It is also literal: plans are the trade's native language, and keys are how every project ends, with a handover.

Lowercase, because a key plan sits quietly in the corner of the sheet, not in the title block.

The mark

The mark is a floor plan with one lit room.

BOUNDARY WALLthe firm's discipline: one system holding everything in
INTERIOR WALLSthe work divides the way a home divides into rooms
THE LIT CELLthe room where the work is alive: where the attention and the money are right now

Kiln, because fired clay is renovation's raw material and the colour of a home being made warm. Graphite, because the trade starts as pencil on paper. Warm paper, because that is the sheet it is all drawn on.

The fill sits flush with the walls. A mark about simplification has to be buildable: one drawing at every size, in every material.

Firm #0

keyplan was not invented by a software company. It was built inside a working Singapore interior design studio, by its owner, on live projects. Every feature exists because a real site, a real client or a real invoice demanded it.

The studio still runs on it every day. Firm #0.

What it stands for
CalmA firm's day is noisy enough. The system should be the quietest thing in it.
TasteClient-facing documents that make a five-person firm look established. Software from the design world, not the software world.
HonestyIt tells you where money leaks, even when that is uncomfortable. Especially then.
DiscretionOn anything a client sees, keyplan disappears behind the firm's own brand. We make firms look good, not ourselves.
ContinuityProcess lives in the system. New designers learn by following it, and nothing walks out the door when someone leaves.

Marketing buys leads.
keyplan stops wasting them.

Winstar Tey · founder, keyplan
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