Book the extraordinary.
Marketplace · Talent booking
A private booking network that puts brands, promoters and venues in front of the artists and icons they actually want — concerts, appearances, marketing collaborations — without the three-week email chain through four gatekeepers.
- Stage
- 35-screen prototype, iOS build ready
- Platform
- iOS first, via Capacitor
- Direction
- Cinematic dark-luxe
- MTHR role
- Founded, designed and built in-house
Why it exists
Booking talent at the top end is still a relationship business run over text messages. A brand that wants a specific artist for a launch, a promoter filling a room, a venue building a season — all of them start from the same place: who do I know who knows them?
Maven's List makes that a network rather than a favour. The buyers get a curated roster and a real request flow; the talent side gets qualified inbound instead of a full inbox. The list is the product — the whole design is built around being on it.
The build
Thirty-five screens are designed and running as an interactive prototype, and the app is two-sided from the first tap — you choose at sign-up whether you're a business booking talent or the talent being booked, and the whole flow forks from there.
- Verified onboardingAccount, profile, phone number, SMS code and terms — before either side sees the roster. The gate is the point of a private club.
- Two profiles, one productBusinesses set up their company and see their bookings; talent build a profile, connect their socials and publish a service menu with what they'll actually do and for what.
- The rolodexBrowse by category or work the full list, then open a talent profile with the numbers behind it — reach, audience and past work.
- A six-step offer builderThe heart of it. An offer is composed screen by screen — what, when, where, terms, money — then sent, tracked through received and confirmed states, and turned into a booking. No ambiguous DM thread pretending to be a contract.
- Both inboxesChats for the negotiation, plus a mirrored offer view and account area on the talent side, so each party sees the same deal from their own angle.
- Design languageNear-black canvas with a single champagne-gold accent. Playfair Display over Hanken Grotesk. Grayscale imagery that warms to full colour on hover, always under a dark scrim.
- Shape and motionSharp 2px radii, gold hairlines, one orchestrated page-load stagger. No glassmorphism, no gradient blobs, no blinking status dots — the restraint is the luxury signal.
- Native shellCapacitor iOS project with a gold-on-black icon and splash, portrait-only, export-compliance pre-answered so uploads don't stall.
A private club with a request button.
Under the hood
| Prototype | Single-file standalone HTML with embedded styles and vanilla JS — 35 screens, no framework, no build step |
|---|---|
| Flow | Splash → onboarding and verification → path fork (business / talent) → home, categories, rolodex, talent profile and stats → six-step offer builder → sent, offers, confirmed, booking → chats and account, mirrored on both sides |
| Mobile | Capacitor iOS project, bundle com.stn.mavenslist, portrait-only, Siki Holding Corp signing team |
| Typography | Playfair Display (display) · Hanken Grotesk (body) |
| Palette | Canvas #0a0a0a · champagne gold #d4af37 · warm off-white text |
| Internal name | Started life as STN — Social Transaction Network |
Where it is now
- DoneFull design system and 35 screens The complete interface exists and is navigable end to end.
- DoneiOS project, icon and splash Builds and runs in the simulator under the Siki Holding Corp developer team.
- NextTestFlight Needs the App Store Connect record created and the developer account signed in before the first archive can upload.
- NextLicensed imagery and real roster Every face and name in the prototype is a placeholder. Nothing public-facing ships until licensed talent photography and a real roster are in.