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Studio Sussex · working signage studio

Built by people who run screens for a living.

Canvas Relay grew out of building and operating real digital menu boards for local businesses—not from a pitch deck about what signage software might need.

BUILT INSussex County, Delaware

Designed around hospitality operators, mounted TVs, changing menus, and unreliable venue Wi-Fi.

01Studio Sussex

Design and install real signs and displays.

02Venue system

Build software for live menu-board operations.

CR03Canvas Relay

Productize the editor, player, and fleet model.

Where it came from

Studio Sussex designs and installs signs and displays around the Delaware beaches. When hospitality clients started asking for menu boards they could update themselves — from a phone, mid-service, without calling anyone — the off-the-shelf options were either enterprise-priced per screen, or consumer toys that fell over offline. So we built our own, and it has run live menu boards through real breakfast rushes, power blips, and Wi-Fi outages.

CanvasRelay is that platform, productized: the same editor, the same player reliability engineering, the same linked-data model — rebuilt as a multi-tenant product anyone can use. The model that ran menu boards now runs retail promos, gym schedules, office lobbies, and event screens too.

What we believe

  • The price on the page is the whole price. Per screen, per month. No "contact sales" tier for a coffee shop.
  • Offline is a requirement, not an edge case. A menu board that blanks when Wi-Fi stumbles is worse than a printed menu.
  • Operators edit from phones. Marking an item sold-out takes one thumb and five seconds, not a laptop in the office.
  • A free tier should be genuinely useful. One live screen, watermarked — not a 14-day trial in disguise.

Two ways to work with us

CanvasRelay (this site) is the do-it-yourself product: design in the browser, put it on any TV, from free to $15/screen. Studio Sussex Managed Displays is the local, full-service offer for Delaware & Delmarva businesses: we design it, install it, and keep it running — powered by this same platform. If you're local and would rather hand the whole thing off, email [email protected] and ask about Managed Displays.

Talk to a human

Support is answered by the people who build the product: [email protected], within one business day. Security reports and privacy requests go to the same address.

See what we made

The editor is right here in your browser — no account, no download.

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