the brief.
the idea
most routing apps adapt a generic map to a bike. spur is built for the city, not adapted to it — it knows the cobblestone in bergmannkiez before you ride into it, routes a cargo bike on weekdays and a road bike on sundays, and names every trade-off out loud instead of deciding for you.
three routes. every trade-off named.
spur returns three options side by side — surface mix, dedicated-lane percentage, where the sources disagree — then names every trade-off out loud instead of deciding for you.
- fastest — most direct
- flattest — fewest climbs
- quietest — most dedicated lane
delivered.
strategy
the business model and positioning — including how spur earns through local-business corridor sponsorship rather than ads, and the “built for the city, not adapted to it” line the whole product hangs on.
brand
a complete identity — the spur. wordmark, a lime-and-ink palette, heavy grotesk type with tabular numerals, and a voice that's flat, exact, and berlin-native, with no hype. one line carries it: “your ride. your reasons.”
product — the app
spur itself. a routing agent with three modes — commute, leisure, training — and a natural-language brief (“avoid cobblestones, target karl-marx-allee, 40 km loop”). it returns three routes side by side, every trade-off named — surface mix, dedicated-lane percentage, where the sources disagree — then turn-by-turn navigation that calls the surface and the radweg quality as you ride.
go-to-market
the marketing site, a beta sign-up, a press kit, and a sponsorship flow for local businesses — geocoded in the browser and posted to spur's live backend.
want the whole thing built?
business strategy, a full brand, a working routing app, and a sponsorship flow — from idea to product, end-to-end. one studio, one timeline.
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