Everyone knows graphite as pencil lead.
Fewer know it conducts.
That's the studio in one word:
your business is already sending signal.
Orders, briefs, bookings, questions.
I build the path it runs through.
//002 · The name means something
About · Graphite Studio
Vancouver, BC · 49.2827°N
signal incurrent throughsystems out
The Studio
Graphite conducts. Ideas go in, working systems come out. I'm Cam Rickerby, and I build the path between.
//001 · Signal in
Cam Rickerby
//002 · The name means something
//003 · How it started
It started as web work. Then every project opened a back door: "while you're in there, the spreadsheet behind this page is duct tape." The sites were fine. The systems behind them were the real job. In 2020 I stopped calling it scope creep and started calling it the work.
so I built
The bench · after hours
Bespoke operating systems
Vancouver, BC · est. 2020
6yrs
Independent since 2020. Still picky about the work.
//001
0h/o
Handoffs between brief and ship. I carry the whole thing.
//002
5wks
MET: scope to a deployed pipeline in their own Vercel.
//003
//005 · Defining moments
[*the current so far]
2020 — 2026
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2020
01 /07
Independent.
Quit the safety net. Freelance web work, first retainers, and a habit of asking what runs behind the page.
//006 · Case studies
MET Printers
The print engine.//001
Replaced doc sprawl with a deployed Next.js + Supabase pipeline in MET’s Vercel.
AI Operations2026
Hyperion
Conviction capital.//002
Identity, editorial site, and a CMS the GP actually opens.
Brand · Web2026
RUBO
Home, in one place.//003
Brand system, marketing site, and the design tokens engineering builds against.
Brand · Web2026
Arclen
The conversion engine.//004
Three-zone register: cinematic dark hero, bone editorial mid-pages, ember-only palette.
Brand · Web2026
//007 · Operating principles
[*the no list]
A conductor works because of what it refuses to pass. The pickiness is not a mood. It is the spec.
//01
No handoffs.
If strategy, design, and build split across three vendors, the seams become the product. I carry the whole thing or I pass.
//02
No black boxes.
You own the stack at the end: repo, infra, keys. If you cannot run it without me, I have not finished.
//03
No slideware.
The deliverable is the system, deployed in your infrastructure and doing its job. A deck about the system does not count.
//04
No novelty for its own sake.
If the boring tool holds, it stays. New tech earns its slot by surviving load, not by being new.
6 years
Six years of systems that are still running. Yours could be next on the bench.
20+ projects shipped
Strategy · Design · Build
One person, end to end
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2020 — 2026
[*operator]
Vancouver, BC
Cam Rickerby · Operator
“Cam shipped a working system into our own infrastructure, not a deck. The pipeline is in MET’s Vercel — owned by us, used every day.”
MET · AI Operations
Signal in.
Systems out.