What should a platform for tokenized private equity look like?

Probably not like another traditional bank.

For ICME, the client wanted a visual direction that felt modern, disruptive, and native to a new kind of financial market.

The challenge was finding the balance: make the experience bold enough to feel different, while keeping a complex product understandable and credible.

I developed a digital-brutalist direction with retrofuturist touches - oversized typography, hard contrast, pixel textures, raw layouts, blue gradients, and controlled motion.

I worked with Arash Attar and the ICME team across the landing page and parts of the wider product interface. This video focuses specifically on the landing-page experience.

The goal was to:

— Explain tokenized private-company equity more clearly — Create a memorable visual identity for the product — Speak to both investors and founders — Make financial technology feel ambitious rather than conventional

Would this visual direction make you want to explore the product - or should financial platforms feel more restrained?

Explore the ICME landing-page project →

This is amazing, man.

Good job!

"Zahid has successfully delivered and deployed HCM within our company."

That's from the client review that landed on my profile this week, for OneHub — the payroll and people-operations platform I built for TechFoundry. Monthly payroll with fiscal-year tax withholding, payslips and tax certificates on demand, expense reports read line by line by Claude, and one reporting layer so the dashboard, the payslip and the certificate always agree.

The word I care about in that review is "deployed". Delivered means the code works. Deployed means payroll runs on it every month, people are paid the right amount, and nobody has to call me.

The thing I'd do differently: the tax rules started out hard-coded. Fine for one country, one fiscal year — until it wasn't. We later pulled them out into a rules engine so the same payroll runs across countries without touching the code. Next time that's day one, not a refactor.

It's also a Contra-verified project — the work was paid through Contra, so the review and the case study are tied to the same engagement. Case study: https://contra.com/p/Y3EgrEUc-payroll-and-people-operations-platform

Shipping a complete payroll and fiscal-year tax withholding engine straight to production is a major milestone! Full-stack execution at its finest.