DSCS moves work forward for startups, cultural organizations, and social impact teams.

We partner with leaders to clarify direction, structure next steps, and bring initiatives, products, and programs to life. We’re built for work across the creative economy, especially work that’s public-facing, partnership-heavy, and cross-functional.

Building something ambitious, complex, or time-sensitive? Let’s talk.

What We Offer

One-Off Support

1. Strategy Session: 90 minutes of feedback and next steps on a challenge, deliverable, or decision.
2. Storytelling Intensive: 1-3 day review and guidance for teams preparing to pitch partners, fundraise, or announce something new.
   
3. Sprint Lead: 2–6 weeks of focused support for teams that need to deliver clear outputs quickly.

Ongoing Support

1. Strategic Advisor: 1 day/week helping leadership navigate growth, complexity, and special projects.
2. Senior Operator: 3–4 days/week working cross-functionally to move new initiatives, products, and programs forward.

What We’ve Done

1. Worked with 57 clients in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Detroit, London, and Berlin
2. Raised $5.57M+ for 500+ small businesses, civic initiatives, startups, artists, and cultural nonprofits
   
3. Launched campaigns featured in TIME, TODAY, USA TODAY, and The Atlantic
   
4. Published books acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
5. Built and implemented internal systems that helped teams launch initiatives in half the time
6. Hired, scaled, and managed teams of up to 40 people
7. Guest lectured at Brown and UC Berkeley on culture, technology, and digital campaigns

Case Studies

1. Funding civic joy
2. Installing public art
3. Publishing queer history
4. Bridging political divides
5. Automating editorial operations
6. Advancing the four day work week

Past Clients


Female Founders Fund
Michigan Central
Primary Ventures
Hyundai Artlab
For Freedoms
CINELOGUE
Kickstarter
92NY
Amplifier
Collecteurs
Project for Empty Space
Bay Area Video Coalition
The Creative Independent
School of Lived Experience
People for the American Way

DSCS is not to be confused with Defense Satellite Communications Systems. We’re not that, but almost kind of, minus the military. Homepage image: Daniel Sharp, Defense Satellite Communications System ​(postcard stamp digital collage), 2022. More here.