On collabs

This is an open invitation to anyone with one good design and no interest in standing up an entire storefront to sell it.

The pitch is simple. ClothedCaptioned hosts partner storefronts at clothedcaptioned.com/{your-slug}/. Your products, your wordmark, your captions, sitting on top of our print engine, our checkout, our fulfillment, and our QR. You do not run a Shopify, you do not sign a Printify contract, you do not reconcile Stripe. You send art. We print, charge, ship, and pay you.

A few examples of who this is built for. A DJ who wants forty tees and a poster sold by QR code on the back of the booth — the kind of merch table where nobody is taking cash and nobody wants to. A brokerage that wants thirty branded tees for closing dinner without paying an embroiderer’s plate fee and minimum order. An artist with one design they keep getting asked about, who just needs a checkout flow they do not have to build. A podcast. A run club. A group chat that turned into a thing.

The terms are the terms. No setup fees beyond the cost of one sample product. No minimums. No exclusivity. The split is straightforward and lives in the email thread, not in a thirty-page MSA. Print runs through Printify, payments run through Stripe, the storefront runs on the same theme you are reading this on. If a design needs a substrate Printify does not carry, that gets said up front instead of pretended otherwise.

What a partner brings: art that prints clean at production size, a slug for the URL, a short bio paragraph for the partner page, and an email address to route order questions to. What a partner does not bring: a designer, a developer, a fulfillment plan, a Shopify subscription, an LLC.

Email hello@clothedcaptioned.com with the design and a sentence about what it is for. Briefer is better. The fastest way to a yes is to attach the file.

One filter, since it has to be said: if the design needs explaining, this is not the right home for it.