Connecting the dots between early concept development and long term success.
Built by founders, for founders
Making the Process More Accessible
From early concept development and sourcing decisions to sampling preparation, manufacturing preparation, positioning, and launch planning, Studio Emshi helps founders navigate the many parts of bringing a product to market with more structure, access, and advocacy.
We know what it feels like.
To have a clear vision, then enter the production process without the structure, language, or relationships needed to move through it confidently.
We learned by doing.
Through that process, we saw how easily vision can get lost in translation, budgets can be misdirected, and products can move forward before they are truly ready.
We built Studio Emshi to meet you there.
Our mission is to give founders the foundation, guidance, and advocacy needed to move through product development, brand building, and the path toward production with greater confidence.
Built by founders who have been through the process.
Studio Emshi was created for founders standing between a strong concept and a clear path forward.
Before building Studio Emshi as an apparel and brand development studio, we took our own fashion concept from an early idea to a launched and selling brand.
Along the way, we experienced the uncertainty, wrong turns, production questions, vendor challenges, and decision fatigue that often come with bringing something new to market.
That experience changed the way we saw the industry. We realized how much time, money, and energy could be saved with the right guidance earlier in the process.
Emma Shiers
FounderEmma 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.
Megan Bloom
COOMegan 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.
Sean Shiers
CEOSean 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.
Have a product, brand, or original concept that needs structure?
Let’s define what you’re building and the support needed to move it forward.