Small Business Report: Q2 2026
Booking, marketplace, and business tools take shape, and ACRYLICS artists land a celebrity placement.
Platform build. Phase 1 work continued through the quarter, focused on the features artists use every day: booking and vertical search, the marketplace for services and products, and the Business Operating System (BOS) suite for running a studio.
Planning for Phase 2. Design work began on the second phase, covering intelligence, community, and scale, including community spaces where artists and enthusiasts can share work and ideas.
Artist visibility. ACRYLICS featured artist Marbles Valdez designed Ellie the Elephant’s birthday manicure for the New York Liberty, covered by NailCon in June. Placements like this are what the platform is built to create for independent artists.
ACRYLICS goes Beta v2 — a unified tool for nail search, marketplace, and business management.
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