What HBA Studio does

HBA Studio LLC is a privately held, single-location hair salon operating from 1914 County Line Road in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania. The business was registered as an LLC in Pennsylvania and is owned by Anastasiia, who serves as Owner and Master Stylist alongside a team of approximately eight professionals including additional master stylists, an eyebrow specialist, and a front desk manager. Operating under the DBA "HBA Studio," the company provides professional hair cutting, coloring, and styling services, plus eyebrow services, to local individual consumers within the Huntingdon Valley trade area. The salon operates seven days a week with extended evening hours and weekend availability, positioning on accessibility for working-area residents.

The company's technology stack is intentionally lean: a Wix-hosted marketing website (hbastudio.art) serves as the primary digital presence, with Square integrated for appointment booking, gift card issuance and redemption, and payment processing. There is no proprietary software, no mobile app, no disclosed API surface, and no AI/ML capabilities referenced anywhere in the source material. Client intake forms and policy agreements are routed through simple Wix-hosted pages. Marketing is conducted organically via Instagram (@hbastudio.art) and Facebook (facebook.com/hbastudio.art), supplemented by word-of-mouth referrals within the local community.

The revenue model is a direct-to-consumer, appointment-based service business with transactional pricing per visit; clients receive pricing at the time of service rather than via publicly disclosed tiers. Gift cards sold through Square provide a secondary revenue and repeat-visit driver. Stylist compensation is commission-based with continuing education opportunities, which aligns incentives toward service quality and chair utilization. The company is bootstrapped with no external institutional investment or parent entity, and headcount, capacity, and revenue are constrained by the physical capacity of a single storefront.

Name

HBA Studio

Legal name

HBA Studio LLC

Website

https://hbastudio.art

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

HBA Studio LLC is a privately held, single-location hair salon in Huntingdon Valley, PA, offering hair cutting, coloring, styling, and eyebrow services to local individual consumers via Square online booking and walk-in appointments.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Huntingdon Valley

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Hair Salon Services: One-time service transactions for hair styling, coloring, cutting, and eyebrow services. Revenue generated through individual service appointments booked by clients.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

HBA Studio is a single-location professional hair salon offering hair cutting, coloring, styling, and eyebrow services delivered by licensed stylists through appointment-based visits at its Huntingdon Valley, PA storefront. Services are scheduled via the Square online booking platform, complemented by Square-issued gift cards, and supported by a Wix-hosted website and social media presence.

Product overview

HBA Studio is a hair salon providing professional hair care services at 1914 County Line Road in Huntingdon Valley, PA. The core offering consists of hair salon services including cuts, color, and styling, with staff positions for Hair Artists (requiring PA cosmetology license and experience) and Assistants. The salon also offers gift cards through Square for client gifting. Online appointment booking is handled via Square's scheduling platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Cost Cutters: Value-positioned hair salon chain owned by Regis Corporation offering cuts and basic color services. Competes in the same suburban hair-care service category as HBA Studio but at lower price points and a more transactional service experience.
• Sport Clips: Franchised hair salon chain focused on men's and boys' haircuts in a sports-themed environment. Operates in the same local hair-care service market as HBA Studio but with a narrower demographic focus and chain-driven brand positioning.
• Hair Cuttery: Large franchise hair salon chain on the U.S. East Coast offering full-service cuts, color, and styling. Directly comparable to HBA Studio in service mix and suburban geographic orientation, but at chain scale with broader marketing reach.
• Fantastic Sams: Franchised full-service hair salon chain offering cuts, color, and styling for men, women, and children. Comparable core service offering to HBA Studio with a similar walk-in/walk-out suburban salon model, though at franchise scale.
• Great Clips: Large U.S. hair salon franchise chain offering walk-in haircuts and styling services. Operates broadly in the same personal-care service category as HBA Studio, but at significantly lower price points and with a walk-in rather than appointment-based model.
• Supercuts: National walk-in hair salon chain owned by Regis Corporation, offering cuts, color, and styling. Comparable to HBA Studio in core service offering (haircuts, color, styling) but operates as a high-volume, value-positioned chain rather than an appointment-based boutique salon.

Emerging players

• Drybar: Blowout-bar concept focused exclusively on wash-and-blow-dry services in a salon setting. Comparable to HBA Studio as a service-only salon model serving local consumers, but with a narrower single-service menu and chain-style brand positioning.
• Madison Reed: Digital-first hair color brand operating Hair Color Bars that combine in-person color services with online product sales. Comparable to HBA Studio in providing professional hair color services to local consumers, with a differentiated omnichannel and color-specialist positioning.

Others

• Ulta Beauty: Largest U.S. beauty retailer combining retail cosmetics/haircare product sales with in-store salon services. Adjacent to HBA Studio in the beauty and hair-care space, competing for both service dollars and the broader beauty wallet of local consumers.
• Empire Beauty Schools: Network of cosmetology and esthetics schools producing licensed stylists for the professional beauty industry. Thematically related to HBA Studio as a talent source and industry participant, though not a direct competitor in service delivery.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/hbastudio.art
• Instagraminstagram.com/hbastudio.art
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/hba-studio

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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