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A talented bunch of humanswho'd rather be proven wrongby data than right by ego.

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Culture at Optyv

We built the studio we wanted to work at: honest readouts, no heroics, and nobody's mock-up survives contact with traffic, the founder's included.

Five-day weeks with every Friday given over to AI: tooling, side experiments, learning. A workation once a year, too. People stay. The numbers below aren't an accident.

Wide panoramic photo of the whole Optyv team at work in a warehouse-style studio, standing desks and plants, golden-hour light streaming in
94%team retention
52Fridays a year on AI
24happy faces
Studio portrait of M R Q Motin, founder of Optyv, in a checked blazer against a plain white background

Our culture

We've created an environment where being wrong is cheap.

Most agencies punish wrong answers, so people stop offering ideas. We made experiments the unit of work instead. Every idea gets its shot at traffic, and the data does the judging. It changes how a team behaves: juniors challenge seniors, designers challenge clients, and everyone sleeps better.

MM R Q MotinFounder, Optyv
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Don't take our word for it. Take theirs.

I pitched a test in my first week that beat the founder’s design. Nobody flinched. They put it in the newsletter.

HusbeyBusiness Analyst & QA
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Feel the atmosphere.

Two studios on two continents, a workation a year, and every Friday spent on AI. Scroll through.

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The Dhaka studio
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Hypothesis session
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AI Friday
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Workation ’25, Lisbon
Overhead photo of a colorful taco lunch spread on a studio table with many hands reaching in
Taco Tuesday, obviously
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Launch-day nerves
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A winner being read out
Photo of a casual evening five-a-side football game, mixed agency team in bibs, urban caged pitch, floodlights, motion
Five-a-side, mixed results

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