We are a product and brand development studio based in Downtown Los Angeles. We help emerging brands, founders, and creatives bring more clarity, structure, and direction to the ideas they are building.
Built by founders, for founders
Who We Are
EMSHI was built from a deep passion for problem solving. As inventors ourselves, we understand that some of the strongest ideas are born from friction, limitation, or unmet needs. Solutions are often shaped under pressure, and we believe great products are developed the same way: through structure, refinement, and a process that gives an idea the space to become stronger.
We also know how personal and valuable an idea can be to a founder. One of the biggest gaps we see is not a lack of strong concepts, but a lack of clear execution. Many brilliant ideas never move forward because the founder does not have the development support, structure, or direction needed to bring them into form.
That is where EMSHI comes in.
We see ourselves as product advocates. Our role is not only to help develop an idea, but to give it clarity, structure, and room to evolve. By balancing intuition with analytical thinking, and creative direction with technical and patent-aware support, we help founders and brands move forward with more confidence, cohesion, and long-term potential.
With experience across soft-goods development, brand direction, e-commerce structure, wholesale, technical design, and commercialization strategy, EMSHI supports both the creative and practical sides of building something new.
Based in Downtown Los Angeles, we are surrounded by one of the country’s most active hubs for fashion, sourcing, production, and soft-goods development. Our location keeps us close to the materials, makers, vendors, and conversations that help ideas move from abstract to tangible.
Emma Shiers
Emma approaches product development with a big-picture mindset, helping guide ideas from their earliest stages into more tangible and refined outcomes. Her background in design and physical product creation gives her a grounded understanding of form, construction, and development, allowing her to shape concepts with both creative instinct and real-world product insight.
Founder
Megan Bloom
Megan brings a highly structured, detail-driven approach to the studio, helping turn ideas into clear and strategic action. Her strength lies in refining concepts, building thoughtful roadmaps, and guiding products through the layers of research, positioning, and execution that give them direction and help them move forward with focus and clarity.
COO
Sean Shiers
Sean brings a deeply strategic and business-minded perspective to the studio, helping shape the larger vision behind how ideas are positioned, protected, and grown. With experience obtaining multiple patents and building and selling businesses from the ground up, he brings a strong understanding of innovation, commercialization, and founder strategy to ideas with long-term business potential.
CEO