The business question comes first
Every piece of work has to answer a question the business actually has. If a request would not help answer one, we say so before accepting it.
The studio
A studio built around one sentence.
Shasai Studio is a marketing and communications studio located in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, specialising in branding, campaigns, advertising, print production, software development and cyber security. We connect strategy, creative communication, production and software, and test what goes live, so a brand, a campaign and the systems that carry them are built, checked and kept by one studio.
What that means in practice
Why these service lines sit together.
Branding, campaigns, advertising, print, software and security are usually split across separate suppliers. Keeping them in one studio is not a boast, it is a decision about where quality is usually lost.
One team, no handover
Strategy, design, production and software sit in the same studio, which closes the gap where campaigns usually lose their consistency.
Both languages
Work is written for how people speak, in English and Swahili, rather than translated word for word.
Nothing leaves half-finished
A project is complete when somebody else can use what we made without having to ask us how.
What we do
Six service lines, one studio.
Each one is documented in detail, including how we approach it and what a client receives.
- BrandingStrategy, identity and the guidelines that keep a brand consistent long after launch day.
- CampaignsOne plan across every channel, and the production to deliver it.
- AdvertisingPaid reach across digital, social and outdoor, produced by the team that plans it.
- Print productionCorporate printing, branded merchandise and large format, specified and delivered.
- Software developmentWebsites, web and mobile applications, and the hosting and support that keeps them running.
- Cyber securityAssessment, testing and hardening, under a scope and rules of engagement agreed before anything is touched.
Who you deal with
Projects are handled by the people named here rather than passed to an account layer. If something needs a decision, you are talking to whoever can make it.
Kelvin (Said) Msangi
Managing Director
saidmsangi@pm.meStudio enquiries
shasaistudio@pm.me
Where we work
The studio is located in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Work is written in English and Swahili, and production is managed with suppliers and fabricators locally.
Where to go next
- BrandingStrategy, identity and the guidelines that keep a brand consistent long after launch day.
- CampaignsOne plan across every channel, and the production to deliver it.
- AdvertisingPaid reach across digital, social and outdoor, produced by the team that plans it.
- Print productionCorporate printing, branded merchandise and large format, specified and delivered.
- Software developmentWebsites, web and mobile applications, and the hosting and support that keeps them running.
- Cyber securityAssessment, testing and hardening, under a scope and rules of engagement agreed before anything is touched.
- How we workHow an engagement runs, and what is never published about a client.
- All servicesBranding, campaigns, advertising, print production, software development and cyber security.
- Start a projectTell us what you are building and we will reply with how we would approach it.
Next step
Tell us what you are working on.
A short description of the project is enough to start. We will reply with how we would approach it, what it needs and what it would take.