Brighter

Case study — Consumer

Petalwork

Flowers are the most emotionally loaded product with the worst customer experience on the internet. Petalwork fixes the experience and keeps the emotion.

SectorConsumer
Founded2025
StageBuilding
Brighter’s roleConceived · Designed · Engineered

The origin

Flowers are the most emotionally loaded product with the worst customer experience on the internet.

We kept hearing the same complaint: online flowers arrive looking nothing like the photo, from a wholesaler nobody chose. Petalwork partners with independent florists in each city and gives them the tools — demand forecasting, routing, a beautiful storefront — to run a subscription business under their own name.

It’s early. Three cities, forty florists, and a retention curve that made us stop looking at anything else.

The build

What we made.

Brand, product, and platform — designed and engineered in-house, from the first sketch to launch.

01Identity — dawn tones for a morning ritual.
$1,284
31%
02Subscription flow
For once a platform is building the tools for us instead of around us.
June CastellanosFounding florist, Los Angeles

Outcomes

Where it stands.

3Cities
40Florist partners
84%Month-6 retention

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