Discovering creative talent online in 2019 meant scrolling through disconnected Instagram accounts, asking for portfolio links that led nowhere, and guessing at actual reach and influence. For brands, it was time-consuming and unreliable. For artists, it meant being invisible to the very people who could hire them.

ArtistsEverywhere came to Polcode with a vision: one platform where artists could be found, evaluated, and contacted professionally, quickly, and with real data backing every profile.

Generating a PDF sounds simple. Generating one with server-side chart rendering, multi-layer layout, dynamic font scaling, and live social data — that's a different project entirely.

The Media Kit was the product's flagship feature: a one-click PDF that presented an artist's portfolio, biography, follower stats, and social trend graphs in a polished, print-ready document. Under the hood, this required rendering Highcharts graphs in a headless PhantomJS browser on the server, then compositing them into a multi-layer PDF with precise image scaling, text overflow handling, and conditional font sizing.

Follower analytics went beyond raw counts; the system tracked weekly and monthly growth trends across all connected platforms, calculating deviations in average growth and decline so that both artists and brands could see momentum, not just a number frozen in time.

Trust was built into the registration flow itself: profiles only went live after automatic verification confirmed email, at least one connected social account, a portfolio photo, and complete personal data. No manual moderation needed.

ArtistsEverywhere was simultaneously a portfolio tool, a social analytics platform, and a B2B communication channel. Getting all three to feel like a single, coherent product, rather than three things bolted together, was the real design challenge. Polcode delivered the full scope: from backend architecture to payment flows to the PDF that closed the deal.

Project completed in 2019.