Midwest Common

What Midwest Common does

Midwest Common is an independent design and production studio based in Detroit, Michigan, founded in 2019. The firm operates with a small team of 1-10 employees and is led by co-founder Michael Haener. Its functional scope, as described in available firmographic data, is design and production services; no specific products, service lines, client segments, or technology stack are disclosed in the input.

No business model details — pricing structure, revenue mechanics, go-to-market approach, or customer segmentation — are available in the supplied data. The studio is privately held and has no disclosed funding history, investor base, or parent company. Available contact channels and operational signals indicate the business is active, but no quantitative performance indicators (revenue, headcount over time, project backlog, or client roster) are present. As a result, the description is necessarily limited to what the firmographic record explicitly states, and any inference beyond that would not be grounded in the input.

Name

Midwest Common

Legal name

JANGNARA

Website

https://midwestcommon.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Midwest Common is an independent design and production studio based in Detroit, Michigan, founded in 2019. It operates with 1-10 employees and is led by co-founder Michael Haener, serving clients through design and production services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Detroit

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Core offering

Midwest Common is an independent design and production studio based in Detroit, Michigan, founded in 2019. The studio delivers design and production services to clients, operating with a small team of 1-10 employees focused on creative output.

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Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Design and Production Studio Services Independent design and production services delivered to clients by a small Detroit-based creative studio, covering design work and production output for business clients.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Direct peers

• Manual: Independent design and creative studio. Analogous boutique studio offering design and production services to brand clients.
• Buck: Design and animation production studio delivering brand, motion, and design work. Closely analogous as a boutique design-and-production house whose output combines design and content production.
• Locomotive: Design and creative agency operating as an independent studio. Similar business model of combining design and production services for brand clients.
• Instrument: Independent creative and design studio producing brand, digital, and production work for clients. Comparable as a similarly structured independent design/production studio competing for similar brand-side creative engagements.
• Athletics: Independent creative studio focused on brand, design, and production. Comparable in size, structure, and offering mix to a small independent design/production studio.
• Blok Design: Independent brand and design studio producing identity, packaging, and design production work. Comparable as a small independent design/production practice.

Broad incumbents

• Pentagram: Large independent design firm operating across many cities. Comparable design discipline but at substantially greater scale and partner count than Midwest Common's 1–10 person footprint.
• Wieden+Kennedy: Major creative agency with a significant production capability. Comparable only in offering category (design + production) but operates at dramatically larger scale.

Market position

Strengths2 records

Weaknesses2 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks2 records

Key highlights3 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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