Dpict

What Dpict does

Dpict is a privately held facilitation partnership founded in 2011 and headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, with team members located across Ohio and Massachusetts. The firm delivers process design, visual harvesting (graphic recording and scribing), documentation and sensemaking, design facilitation, experience design, and poetry-based services to organizations seeking collaborative decision-making, strategic alignment, and visual documentation of group dialogue. Its client base spans higher education (MIT Sloan, Northeastern University), nonprofit and philanthropic organizations (ArtWorks, Design Impact, Bridgespan Group, Tomorrow Makers, New England Aquarium), and enterprises (Altus Group, Baker & Daboll), served through direct inquiry-based engagement and, for workshops, through the Ticket Tailor ticketing platform.

The firm operates a portfolio of both services and a physical product. Service offerings include Visual Harvesting, Documentation & Sensemaking, Design & Facilitation, Experience Design, Poetry, Speaking Engagements, and Workshops, delivered in-person and virtually using the Miro collaborative whiteboard platform for online sensemaking. The physical product, JINX Walls, is a patent-pending portable modular dry-erase work environment composed of 22 triangular pieces that nest for storage and ship on a single pallet, available for rental or purchase. Five managing members (Alicia Bramlett, Mike Fleisch, Andy Goulet, Sita Magnuson, Nicole Okumu) run the firm as a partnership, with no external investors or funding disclosed. The firm's value proposition is anchored in two decades of collective experience, founding membership in The Value Web international collaborative-design network, and a distinctive integration of visual arts, facilitation, and poetry into organizational consulting.

Name

Dpict

Legal name

Dpict

Website

https://dpict.co

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Dpict is a Cincinnati-based facilitation partnership of five managing members that provides graphic recording, visual sensemaking, design facilitation, and experience design services to nonprofits, universities, and enterprises, and sells JINX Walls, a patent-pending modular dry-erase work environment.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Organizational Facilitation Services

NAICS

Graphic Design Services (541430), Other Specialized Design Services (54149)

SIC

Services-Mailing, Reproduction, Commercial Art & Photography (7330)

akta.pro primary industry

Event Fabrication & Scenic/Set Build (Custom Builds, Installations) (BPAFAGAK)

Keywords

• Graphic facilitation services
• Visual sensemaking workshops
• Collaborative design consulting
• Portable dry erase walls
• Meeting scribing services

Headquarters

HQ city

Cincinnati

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Facilitation Services: Professional facilitation services for organizations and communities including visual harvesting, design facilitation, and experience design.
2. Workshops: Ticketed workshop sessions for skill-building in graphic recording, facilitation, and visual communication.
3. JINX Walls Rental and Purchase: Portable dry-erase work walls available for rental (including assembly/disassembly) or purchase. Rental covers all assembly and disassembly with shipping based on volume and location.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Dpict is a facilitation firm that designs and delivers collaborative processes for organizations, including visual harvesting (graphic recording/scribing), documentation and sensemaking, design facilitation, experience design, poetry services, and speaking engagements. It also sells and rents JINX Walls, a proprietary patent-pending portable dry-erase work environment, and offers ticketed workshops teaching graphic facilitation and visual collaboration skills.

Product overview

Dpict is a facilitation firm offering a portfolio of services centered on process design, visualization, sensemaking, and collaborative environments (both online and in-person). The core offerings include Visual Harvesting, Documentation & Sensemaking, Design & Facilitation, Experience Design, Poetry services, Speaking Engagements, and Workshops. The company also offers JINX Walls, a patented portable dry-erase work environment product. The services are designed to work together, using visuals to center conversations and create alignment, while JINX Walls serves as a physical scribing platform and breakout workspace that complements their facilitation services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Visual Harvesting Visual listening and graphic recording service where facilitators capture group dialogue and presentations in real time, visually surfacing ideas, themes, and patterns while documenting both spoken words and unspoken emotions. Designed for organizations and groups needing live visual documentation.
• Documentation & Sensemaking Process-as-product approach capturing change initiatives in a visually creative and accessible virtual space (such as Miro), enabling participants to engage with structured and emergent information within and across sessions. Designed for organizations running complex change initiatives.
• Design & Facilitation Process design and facilitation services incorporating tools and practices that support individual and group learning, relationship-building, and collaborative decision-making. Designed for organizations seeking structured facilitation.
• Experience Design Design of culturally relevant environments and experiences that foster meaningful connection, learning, and action, using creative practices to invite new ways of thinking and understanding. Designed for organizations hosting events, conferences, and large convenings.
• Poetry Poetry services offered through Short Order Poetry and Poet-as-Recorder to understand, sense, and feel collaboration around complexity through a poetic lens. Designed for organizations seeking arts-integrated facilitation.
• Speaking Engagements Speaking engagements sharing lessons learned and insights from over 20 years of experience in collaborative design, facilitation, and visualization. Designed for conferences, organizations, and learning events.
• Workshops Educational workshops teaching deep listening, relationship building, and collaboration through graphics and visual recording techniques. Designed for individual professionals seeking to develop graphic recording, facilitation, and visual communication skills.
• JINX Walls Portable and affordable dry-erase work environment consisting of 22 triangular pieces that nest for storage. Each wall is 14' long and 8' 4" tall with wheel bases, a convex reverse side for storage and scribing, and a removable top layer of 9 triangles for smaller coffee-table-height workspaces. Patent pending. Available for rental (with assembly/disassembly) or purchase. Designed for meeting facilitators, conference organizers, and organizations needing flexible collaborative workspaces.

Quantifiable outcome

• BLINK event described as 'one of the most spectacular creative events Cincinnati (or even the country) has ever seen'
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature3 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• ImageThink: ImageThink is a well-known graphic recording and visual facilitation firm serving enterprises, conferences, and non-profits. It is the most directly comparable peer to Dpict in terms of core offering (live scribing, graphic facilitation) and customer type.
• The Grove Consultants International: The Grove is a pioneer in visual facilitation and collaborative methods, offering graphic facilitation, training, and consulting. It overlaps directly with Dpict's workshops, scribing, and facilitation practice.
• Beakbane: Beakbane (formerly VizNotes) is a UK-based graphic facilitation studio offering scribing, illustration, and visual storytelling for events and organizations. It is a direct peer in the niche of live graphic recording and visual facilitation.
• Visual Minds: Visual Minds is a visual thinking and graphic facilitation consultancy that designs workshops and produces scribed visuals for organizations. It competes with Dpict in delivering facilitated sessions and visual documentation.

Broad incumbents

• Frog (frog design): Frog is a global design and innovation consultancy that embeds facilitation, co-design, and visual storytelling into larger product and experience engagements. It competes for the same enterprise facilitation budgets as Dpict but at much larger scale.
• IDEO: IDEO is a global design and strategy firm whose human-centered design methodology depends heavily on facilitation, sensemaking, and collaborative workshops. It competes with Dpict for enterprise facilitation and design consulting work, though at significantly greater scale and brand recognition.
• Bain & Company: Global strategy consulting firm whose transformation and organization practices overlap with Dpict's strategic planning and visioning engagements. Bain competes indirectly by offering embedded facilitation as part of broader strategy mandates.
• Mural: Mural is a leading digital collaborative whiteboard platform used for remote facilitation and workshops. It competes with Dpict's Miro-based virtual sensemaking practice as a technology layer that organizations may adopt in-house, potentially disintermediating pure-play facilitators.

Others

• International Institute for Facilitation (INIFAC): INIFAC is a professional body for facilitators worldwide, providing certification and community. It is adjacent to Dpict because INIFAC members are potential collaborators, competitors, or workshop clients in the facilitation market.

Emerging players

• Hyperisland: Hyperisland delivers facilitation, leadership, and creative workshops globally, including online cohorts. It is comparable to Dpict's workshop business and shares a focus on experiential, collaborative learning methods.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/1940397
• Instagraminstagram.com/dpict.info

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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