We're the hands that stay in the work.
Unstuck is a wide room of operators: designers, builders, strategists, music-makers. The people you meet are the people who do the work. No pitch team, no hand-off, no agency theater.
An arm of Talk Circles · Mt. Shasta, CA
We don't advise from the sidelines. We get in.
Four things you can count on from the first hour, which, by the way, is free.
No forms.
You start with a conversation, not a contact field. Call Patrick, say what you're stuck on, and a real person answers.
The same hands, start to finish.
The people you meet are the people who do the work. No pitch team, no hand-off, no junior swap after the sale.
We've done it ourselves.
We've run the businesses, shipped the products, and made the things. Now we do it with you, in the work, not above it.
Weird, in a good way.
It gets weird. That's where the good ideas live. But we never make things weird for you. Calm in, clarity out.
Some of the main hands. There are more in the room.
Everyone here is in the work. No tiers, no “contributors” row. When the studio shows up for a job, everyone shows up the same way.
Patrick Maxwell
Mt. Shasta, CA
01 / 06
Patrick Maxwell
Creative Systems Integrator · Co-founder
“It gets weird, but we don't make things weird.”
T-shirts → animation → game studio creative direction → CTO seat at a venture-backed sports platform. Twenty-five years across design, brand, product, and operations.
Most recently shipped ThriveSports from a single-sport tool into a multi-sport coaching ecosystem, including a partnership with NBC Sports. Clients along the way: Hilton, Forbes, AP, Comcast.
Lives at the bottom of the mountain. Climbs it on the weekends. Reads systems for breakfast.
Londynn Metten
02 / 06
Londynn Metten
Product · Systems · Co-founder
“I see patterns where other people see a mess.”
Fifteen years in tech, mostly in the seat where a vague “we should figure this out” turns into a plan with owners and dates.
Does the untangling: takes the pile of people, tools, and half-built systems a business has collected and makes it one thing that actually runs. Reads the org, not just the org chart.
Equal parts structure and instinct. Keeps the human in the system.
Bryan Matthews
03 / 06
Bryan Matthews
Brand Designer · Creative Director
“Make the label do the work the bottle can't.”
Brand designer with the kind of creative range that makes a thing feel inevitable.
Led the visual launch of Siddiqui Rums. Ran the Bus2theBallpark operation with Patrick: SF Giants gear, designed start to finish, on fans in line for the stadium.
Pulls a brand into the world by making sure the first object people pick up already tells the story.
Blake Driskell
Maui ↔ Mt. Shasta
04 / 06
Blake Driskell
Creative Brand Strategist
“Read the line. Commit. Don’t overthink it.”
Maui kid. Mt. Shasta local. Pro snowboarder by morning, designer by night, and neither at the expense of the other.
BFA in Graphic Design from Sacramento State. Years in the design seat at RIDE Snowboards, where the work he made in the studio ended up on the boards under his feet. His own shop, Driskell Design, followed.
Brand experience design built on the same instincts that get him down a mountain.
George Byrd
Brooklyn, NY
05 / 06
George Byrd
Generalist · Music Producer (NYC)
“Wait for the question to be the right one. Then answer.”
If something needs a wider brain in the room, George is in the room.
Business, AI, game development, and the connections between the things you didn't know were connected. Produces music in NYC.
A knower of all things. The calm in the back of the room who, when he speaks, the rest of the room leans in.
Amy McCleary
06 / 06
Amy McCleary
Business Development · Sales · Marketing Strategy
“Big rooms, hard logistics, calm in the chaos.”
Three decades of business development and marketing strategy across sport, entertainment, and consumer brands.
Started in Hong Kong with Spectrum Sports Management, working ATP Tennis and Golf across Southeast Asia and bringing in sponsorships from NIKE, Adidas, Philip Morris International, and Corona.
Later in film with Lionsgate and Roger Corman, including Casper: A Spirited Beginning. Finds the opportunity, opens the door, and brings it back to the table.
The conversation layer behind the studio.
Unstuck is an arm of Talk Circles, built to help small businesses work smarter, not harder. Small-group rooms, a scheduled cadence, and the calm to sit with the actual question. Unstuck is where that conversation turns into finished work.
Visit talkcircles.ioThe questions worth asking.
Unstuck is the path company, a wide room of operators (designers, builders, strategists, music-makers) who don't just advise from the sidelines. We stay in the work with you. We've done it ourselves, and now we do it with you. We're an arm of Talk Circles, based in Mt. Shasta, CA.
Talk Circles is the parent, the conversation layer behind the studio. Small-group rooms, a scheduled cadence, and the calm to sit with the actual question instead of rushing past it. Unstuck is the arm built to help businesses work smarter, not harder, by turning those conversations into finished work.
We're based in Mt. Shasta, California. That's home base, though the room is wider than one town. George produces music out of Brooklyn, and the work travels wherever a business needs a hand. The mountain is where it centers.
The people you meet are the people who do the work: real operators like Patrick, Londynn, Bryan, George, and Amy, with more hands in the room. No pitch team who disappears after the sale, no hand-off to whoever's free. The same hands that stay in the work.
No. Agencies pitch, then hand you off. We're a studio of operators who've run the businesses, shipped the products, and made the things, and we stay in it with you until it's done. No forms, no agency theater, no layers between you and the people doing the work.
Because most businesses don't need another opinion. They need a way through. We help you find the path and then walk it with you, hands in the work, until you're unstuck. Direction, not just advice.
Talk to us. The first hour is free, with no forms and no pitch. Call Patrick, tell us what you're stuck on, and we'll show you the path. We've done it ourselves; now we do it with you.
We've done it ourselves. Now we do it with you.
No forms, no pitch. The first hour is free. Call Patrick, tell us what you're stuck on, and we'll show you the path.