Case Studies — Custom Vantage Digital Builds

Past Vantage Digital builds — honest-first showcase.

This page is for Path 2 — full custom Vantage Digital builds ($5K+ bespoke software, live scoping required). Different from /coach-stories which holds Cadence customer reviews. Same publishing standard either way: real or empty, never fabricated.

If you came here looking for proof Cadence works — that lives at /coach-stories. This page is for prospects considering a custom build instead.

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The honest version: the studio is in v0.1 of operating publicly. Past private builds (FitTrack Pro, internal tooling) aren't published as case studies because they were built before the studio went public-facing in 2026. Future custom builds will populate here when delivered with customer consent. Empty slots stay empty until that happens.

Real builds. Real customers. Or honest blanks.

Each card below is either a published custom build with customer sign-off, or an open slot reserved for the next published case study. No padding.

Custom Slot · 01

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Be the first published custom-build case.

If your project lands here as the first published case, you get studio attention + a public showcase + the founding-customer narrative.

Start a custom build →

Custom Slot · 02

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Slot 02 — open

Reserved for the second published custom build. Same publishing standards. Same studio voice.

Submit a project →

Custom Slot · 03

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Slot 03 — open

No artificial cap on the number of custom-build cases. We publish what we ship, when we ship it.

Submit a project →

Same answer as /coach-stories.

The two-paths situation, said out loud.

Vantage Digital runs two paths (per /paths). Cadence is the productized path — branded coaching app for fitness coaches, $49–149/mo, async. Custom builds are the bespoke path — $5K+ projects in any vertical, live scoping required.

Cadence customer reviews populate /coach-stories as founding coaches sign up. Custom-build cases populate this page when paying customers consent to publication. Most coaches will only need to look at one of these two pages — this one is for prospects considering a custom Path 2 build.

Past private builds (the internal architecture that became Cadence's foundation, the personal apps that became the studio template) aren't published here because they predate the studio's public-facing era. Going forward, every custom delivery has the option of becoming a case study with customer consent. Some will. Some won't. We don't fabricate either way.

If you're considering a custom build and want to see proof of past delivery, the most honest answer is to read the (the public ship history shows the velocity), the page (visual ship cadence), and /coach-stories (Cadence customer experience). When the first custom Path 2 case lands here, the dynamic shifts.

Same five rules as /coach-stories.

Every case study that appears on this page meets these criteria. No exceptions, regardless of project size.

Real customer. Real consent.

Customer or business name (or anonymized industry-only label, if customer prefers) with a way to verify the project was real outside this page.

Project actually delivered.

No "in-flight" cases. Final delivery confirmed by the customer, with at least 30 days of post-delivery operating time before publication.

Customer signed off on the writeup.

Final case-study text reviewed and approved by the customer before publication. Edits from the customer take precedence over our preferred wording.

Numbers are checkable.

Outcome metrics — time saved, revenue impact, manual hours eliminated — come from customer's own records. We don't model them or estimate them for them.

Mixed outcomes allowed.

If a project succeeded overall but one component didn't ship as planned, the case study says so. Honest mixed reviews preserved over scrubbed five-star versions.

Past Vantage Digital builds — honest-first showcase.

Real builds. Real customers. Or honest blanks.

Same answer as /coach-stories.

The two-paths situation, said out loud.

Same five rules as /coach-stories.

Considering a custom Path 2 build? Live scoping starts here.