ANC
ANC Design

Design is already
one of the biggest
things ANC does.

It is also the one nobody bills for. Here is the scale, what it is worth, and the three things that need a decision.

20,541 design tickets2,047 designer hours in 2026391 boards rendered
01

The scale of it

Counted this morning. Not a plan — the standing volume of design work already moving through the company.

20,541
Design tickets carried
987
Raised in 2026
2,047
Designer hours logged in 2026
5
Designers carrying all of it
634
CG requests
3,059
Content schedules

Five people are absorbing the creative output of a full studio. That is the constraint everything else in this conversation runs into.

02

What it's worth

Design is attached to board sales rather than sold. It closes deals, it renews accounts, and it appears on no invoice of its own.

2,047 hrs
A full year of creative work, delivered and not priced

The clients receiving it are the accounts ANC already holds. Nothing new has to be sold to anybody — the work is already being done, already being valued, and already being asked for again next season.

Running
A metered engine, live today
391
Boards rendered through it so far
1
Pilot venue needed to produce the price

The gap between what design costs ANC and what it earns is a price, not a build. One venue run through the engine for a month against what that venue costs today produces the number — and there is time to have it before the busy season.

03

Three programmes, not one

Design asks feel endless because three separate things are discussed as one. They have different owners, different users and different finish lines.

Services design

The production floor

Client requests, designer assignment, proofs, CG, print and content schedules. Built and holding every ticket.

20,541tickets carried
Sales-support design

The opportunity board

Renders and creative that support a deal in flight. Deals flagged in the CRM arrive on the board on their own.

43live projects · 9 people
Production automation

The render engine

Locked template, swap the artwork and the copy, render every board in the venue. Client approves before anything full-size is made.

391boards rendered · 38 jobs
What the engine already covers
  • Full-stadium fascia at real size — 15,120 px wide
  • Ribbon boards, vomitories, portals, concourse, courtside
  • Stills and motion, rendered frame by frame
  • A whole venue’s board list from one request
  • Upcoming-events rosters that re-lay from one sentence
  • Sponsor, lineup, final score, countdown and hype moments
  • Print and physical sizes at the right resolution
  • Delivery caps — file size, format, character limits
  • A client proof link with no login
  • Per-board artwork on a single job
04

See it working

Real ANC requests and real ANC venues, built out and put beside what was actually delivered. Every one of these opens in a browser right now — no login, no file to download.

05

Three decisions

Everything above is built and running. These three are the only things that need a person to say yes.

01

A pilot venue for the engine

One venue, one recurring job type, run through the engine for a month against what it costs today. That produces the price this conversation keeps needing.

Needs: a venue and a start date
02

A date for the move

Pick the week the design team starts its day in the platform instead of the old tracker. The notifications that make that painless go on before it.

Needs: a date
03

Sales-support design gets its lane

Confirm that deals needing design are flagged as a matter of course, so the board fills itself from the pipeline instead of from memory.

Needs: an owner and a default