From day one, Surge needed more than a brand that looked good. They needed design that built credibility, earned trust, and scaled with them as they grew. They needed a design partner that ensures they stand out in the crowded world of AI infrastructure.
They chose Konpo. More than a vendor, we became their plug-and-play design team: senior talent embedded alongside leadership, shaping everything from their first identity to their website, product, and systems. At every stage, Surge found in Konpo a partner they could depend on.
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Our collaboration has become a long-term partnership that helped Surge grow from early explorations to a brand adopted by the leading AI and technology companies and a product internationally recognized and awarded.
We built a bold, distinctive identity in an industry defined by sameness, designed a product experience that balanced delight with enterprise-grade usability, and crafted a design system to keep them consistent as they scaled.
As Surge now looks to fetch a valuation of over $15 billion in its first capital raise, we’re leading phase two of their branding. The goal: to build a brand that not only wins attention and trust, but one that matches the ambition and credibility of a company operating at that scale.
Forbes Feature on CEO
Bloomberg Report
Business Insider's Coverage
Awwwards – Honorable Mention
- Founder - Edwin Chen
- Year - 2025
- Industry - Artificial Intelligence
- Scope - Brand · Site · Systems
- Website - www.surgehq.ai
Losing a major long-term client made it clear: ComPsych needed a rebrand built to win. Younger competitors with sharper, design-driven branding were pulling attention away from the world’s largest provider of employee assistance programs (EAPs) — a company supporting over 130 million people across 190 countries.They turned to Konpo to make sure their brand matched their scale and credibility. The mission: win back market share, turn reputation into loyalty, and defend their position at the top.
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Every element of the ComPsych rebrand was built to show the strength of a category leader, but for today’s market and tomorrow’s. The new logo centers on a glowing core, with expanding ripples signaling growth, support, and scale. Their signature orange was sharpened with a modern palette designed to stand out with confidence, not noise.But what’s a rebrand without discipline to execute it? We built a dedicated brand hub that gave ComPsych everything — from logos to illustrations to voice — to apply their new identity consistently across 75,000+ organizations worldwide. And we delivered it beyond our original scope.The result: a brand that doesn’t just keep up with the competition, but takes back the lead. With a stronger identity and a system to sustain it, ComPsych now has the edge to defend its dominance and keep winning in a design-driven market.
- Industry - Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Scope - Brand
- Brand Hub - compsych.konpo.co
- Website - compsych.com
amp Fitness set out to launch its AI-powered strength training system with leadership and talent from Apple, DraftKings, Meta, Nike, and Spotify — people who held the highest design standards. To stand out in a crowded fitness space, they needed a design partner who could move as fast as they did and deliver world-class quality.That’s where Konpo came in. As their plug-and-play design studio, we worked elbow-to-elbow with Amp’s leadership to marry hardware and software into a seamless consumer experience. From product design to scalable design systems, we turned their ambitious vision into award-winning, user-loved reality.When the standards are highest, the right design partner makes all the difference.
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Results so far: 40,000 users, multiple awards, and a sleek wall-mounted system paired with a companion app.Working with amp meant translating adaptive resistance hardware, smart coaching, and modular accessories into a cohesive consumer experience. Add to that a team backed by Sports Science PhDs and leaders from Apple, Meta, and Nike, and the expectations were clear: nothing short of excellence would do. Rising to that challenge not only delivered results for amp, but pushed Konpo to sharpen our own systems and raise the bar.Challenge accepted. Mission accomplished.
Awwwards SOTD
Developer Award
FWA SOTD
CSSD SOTD
Mindsparkle SOTD
- Founder - Shalom Meckenzie
- Year - 2024
- Industry - Fitness · Artificial Intelligence
- Scope - Brand · Product · Systems
- Website - www.ampfit.com
Design for 10 Million Designers
Designing for designers — a match made in heaven. Vectornator is great illustration software used by Disney, Marvel, BBC and Apple, whose design language was not up to par with its ambitions.
The story of Vectornator starts in the room of a 10-year-old child in 2010. Vladimir, born in Romania and raised in Germany, encountered a problem that many designers have experienced before. He was struggling to find a suitable design tool for his illustrations. Most kids would probably have given up soon, turn to TV & loose interest.
But Vladimir was not most kids. He decided to create his own solution to solve his own problem. With the help of Youtube tutorials and several forum posts, he began to write his first lines of code.
What started out as a hobby turned into a product that is loved by millions of graphic designers but also has the support of prominent industry leaders, such as Disney, Marvel, BBC and Apple.
We got involved when they found themselves having a rather good problem. They had a GREAT product with a bunch of loyal recurring users; but their website did not match the product experience and fell short when conveying the excitement & buzz that existed among its community. So they needed a team to help them turn their vision into a reality (That’s us!), which was both an honor and a challenge. Now we had to figure out the following:
- How do you create a world-class website for a world-class product? specially one aimed at designers?
- How do you tread the fine line of designing “too much” and leveraging all the artwork we have without sacrificing usability & performance?
- How do we create a scalable system that their team can then work with?
We turned to Webflow for the development and out-of-the-box performance. We successfully planned, designed, developed and delivered a performing website and a robust design system to scale on (in style). What was originally a one-off engagement turned into us becoming an integrated component of their team, where we work elbow-to-elbow to continuously improve the experience of millions of creators.
We ❤️ Vectornator.
The story of Vectornator starts in the room of a 10-year-old child in 2010. Vladimir, born in Romania and raised in Germany, encountered a problem that many designers have experienced before. He was struggling to find a suitable design tool for his illustrations. Most kids would probably have given up soon, turn to TV & loose interest.
But Vladimir was not most kids. He decided to create his own solution to solve his own problem. With the help of Youtube tutorials and several forum posts, he began to write his first lines of code.
What started out as a hobby turned into a product that is loved by millions of graphic designers but also has the support of prominent industry leaders, such as Disney, Marvel, BBC and Apple.
We got involved when they found themselves having a rather good problem. They had a GREAT product with a bunch of loyal recurring users; but their website did not match the product experience and fell short when conveying the excitement & buzz that existed among its community. So they needed a team to help them turn their vision into a reality (That’s us!), which was both an honor and a challenge. Now we had to figure out the following:
- How do you create a world-class website for a world-class product? specially one aimed at designers?
- How do you tread the fine line of designing “too much” and leveraging all the artwork we have without sacrificing usability & performance?
- How do we create a scalable system that their team can then work with?
We turned to Webflow for the development and out-of-the-box performance. We successfully planned, designed, developed and delivered a performing website and a robust design system to scale on (in style). What was originally a one-off engagement turned into us becoming an integrated component of their team, where we work elbow-to-elbow to continuously improve the experience of millions of creators.
We ❤️ Vectornator.
A new home was needed.
We rolled up our sleeves we defined a design language specifically for their ambitions. Working in close collaboration with Vladimir’s team, we came up with a design that represented how we wanted their current and new users to perceive this awesome design tool.
In an industry with established dominance (ahem, Adobe), Vectornator comes out as an exciting contender that is hungry and ready to take on Goliath.
A new home was needed.
We rolled up our sleeves we defined a design language specifically for their ambitions. Working in close collaboration with Vladimir’s team, we came up with a design that represented how we wanted their current and new users to perceive this awesome design tool.
In an industry with established dominance (ahem, Adobe), Vectornator comes out as an exciting contender that is hungry and ready to take on Goliath.
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Scaling with a System.
We created a thorough, robust and detailed design system that structured and standardized the way we built on the site. This served as the foundational pillars that we then grew from. Using Figma, we managed to create a single source of truth to maintain consistency and keep the design and development teams on their toes.
You should only invent the wheel once.
Scaling with a System.
We created a thorough, robust and detailed design system that structured and standardized the way we built on the site. This served as the foundational pillars that we then grew from. Using Figma, we managed to create a single source of truth to maintain consistency and keep the design and development teams on their toes.
You should only invent the wheel once.
Konpo for us is like our internal design team. Every single design they made for us is amazing. We're super happy to work with them and would not replace them with anyone else. They simply go the extra mile.
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