dots.smp, built by dots

Impressions by dots · for SMP and brow artists, and the academies that train them

Let them see it before they book.

Impressions shows your client their healed result on their own photo at the consultation. Then it runs everything else, from their first message to their healed photos, in one app on your tablet.

No sign-up. Pretend clients, nothing saved or sent.

A bald head before treatment The same head with the app's healed SMP preview painted on
BeforePreview

Drag across. This is the app's own preview, drawn on a stock photo. It's an illustration, not a real result, and the model isn't a client.

Two ways in

For the academy, and for the artists it trains.

Artists

2 months free, then £49 a month.

  • A third month free if you haven't had a client yet
  • £49 a month, fixed for your first 12 paid months
  • SMP, or brows and PMU

What it does

One client, start to finish.

1

A consultation with a script that listens

Tap Male or Female and the charts and questions follow. Tap their answers and the app gives you a line to say back. When you get to the price, it brings together what they told you. Medical answers aren't saved: they stay on your paper form.

The consultation script, with tapped answers and lines to say back

2

A shade starting point

Take photos with a white card in shot. The card corrects the light, and several taps per area catch glare and bad readings. The app suggests a pigment and ratio from your pigment card. Your eye still decides.

The pigment mixing card by skin type and hair colour

3

They see it on their own photo

For SMP, dot the area and it draws healed impressions at true size for each session's needle and mix. For brows, it finds the points on their face and draws strokes, nano or powder, fresh and healed. Then send the preview home so they can show their family.

A brow preview drawn on a stock photo of a face, with the mapping points

4

Every session, every message

Each session has its own mix, needle and batch record, and your stock counts itself down. The right message comes up on the right day: reminders, aftercare, healed photos, reviews, referrals and top-ups, in your own wording.

A session reminder message ready to send on WhatsApp

For academies and trainers

Your training, carried into their first year.

The weeks after a course are when new artists struggle most. Your edition puts your way of working in their hands for every client.

Free for your academy

No set-up fee and nothing to pay. Use it in your own studio too.

20% of every paying graduate

Paid monthly, for as long as they pay, about £10 a month each at the standard price.

Your edition

Your logo, aftercare, day 1, 5 and 7 messages, key lines in the script, session gaps and your pigment card.

Reorder from your shop

When a graduate's stock runs low, the app points them to your shop.

You approve it first

You get a preview link to check everything, or ask for changes, before any graduate sees it.

No tie-in

No exclusivity. Either side can end it with 30 days' notice.

  1. Send four things

    Your logo, your aftercare sheet, a photo of your pigment chart and your shop link.

  2. Check your edition

    I set it up and send you a private preview link to approve.

  3. Share your join link

    Graduates sign up with it and start on your set-up, with "Trained by" your academy.

Where it's up to

What's ready, and what isn't.

Ready now

  • Running my own SMP studio every day
  • Each studio's own name, logo, prices, offers and pigment card
  • Academy editions, approval links and graduate join links
  • Installs on an Android tablet from the browser
  • Two-step sign-in, data held in the EU, studios walled off from each other

Opening in the new year

  • Paid sign-up: nobody is charged until then
  • Brows and PMU: being checked by a brow artist before brow studios start
  • Pigment match: still being tuned on real clients
  • Connecting each studio's own Square and Google accounts

Who made it

Built in a working studio.

I'm Adam. I do SMP at dots.smp in Halesowen. I built Impressions to run my own studio, and everything in it comes from treating real clients.

It's built around how SMP and brows actually work, from three sessions and months of healing to batch numbers and aftercare, not around a general booking system.

Talk to Adam

See it on a call, or try it now.

Ten minutes on a video call is enough to see the whole thing. Or open the demo and try it with pretend clients.

07359 034621 · hello@dotsstudio.co.uk · @dots.smp