Experiments and Miscellany
Spinoffs, Small Bets & Collabs
This is where we showcase work that grows out of client projects, conversations with friends, and the curiosity always surrounding open questions.
Spinoffs are small, self-directed projects we build alongside Fifth Letter’s core work. Tools, podcasts, prototypes, and services we test in the open because we feel they’re useful and worth sharing.
Not everything works. Some stay small. Some turn into real offerings. All of them start as practical responses to real problems.
Echo
Echo helps solo marketers, early teams, and self-guided leaders find clarity, plan smarter, and move forward with confidence — even when no one else in your organization speaks marketing.
Cadence
Cadence is a lightweight Gantt Chart creation tool for project managers who don’t have this capability within their platforms and schedulers.
Cadence is currently in an alpha stage. It works on mobile devices but has not been optimized for smaller screens just yet.
Continuum
Continuum helps users like you capture interesting ideas, discover unseen connections between them, and make sense of everything you collect along the way. Store links, notes, PDFs, and more in one place—then let AI surface unexpected relationships between your materials, so patterns emerge naturally over time.
Designed for curious thinkers and builders, Continuum is currently in an early alpha stage, evolving quickly as we explore better ways to connect ideas and amplify insights. It works on mobile devices but has not been optimized for smaller screens just yet.
It’s free for anyone to use. All we ask for in payment is feedback with regard to features you think would be useful and overall ways to make the tool even better.
Two Designers Walk Into a Bar
This podcast about iconic design and popular culture is hosted by designers Todd Coats and Elliot Strunk and includes guests who show up from time to time.
With humor and curiosity, the show looks at why certain ideas last, how culture influences craft, and what we can learn from the things we love.
Rough Cuts
This feed is where rough ideas get workshopped and vetted before they become formalized in our Thinking Out Loud series of posts.
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Proof
Check out our different AI-based creative work on Proof, a platform that creates a permanent, shareable record for AI-generated creative work, capturing who made it, why it exists, and how it can be used. It acts as an “origin layer” for AI content, preserving authorship, intent, and permissions as the work moves across the internet.
