Industry – Creative Services & Media Production
Trick and Mortar is a modern creative agency that works with clients worldwide on projects of all sizes. Their work is unpredictable, so they must stay flexible, ready to adapt to any workflow or storage system their clients throw at them. Whether it’s a NAS, Lucidlink, Backblaze, Storj, or even Google Drive, they juggle multiple storage platforms to meet client needs. This often leads to time-consuming, complex workflows, which CTO Dave Gorrie has to manage, without a simple, streamlined solution.
Challenge: Consolidate Storage Costs and Find a LucidLink Alternative
Trick and Mortar wanted to lower costs without compromising performance. He appreciated LucidLink has the ability to stream files without downloading, but it needed a more affordable solution. Storj, Backblaze, and Google Drive offered lower costs but weren’t ideal for much beyond backups. Managing files across these platforms meant constant uploading and downloading, with unpredictable egress fees, making budgeting a headache—especially with freelancers in the mix.
Then CTO, Dave Gorrie, discovered CLICK by Amove, and everything changed.
“As a small business owner, every second and dollar counts. If we can do something at half the cost with better functionality-we’re in. CLICK didn’t just save us money, it made our team more efficient and drastically simplified our process. It’s completely changed the way we interact with every storage.”
– Dave Gorrie, Owner & CTO
Solution: Turn Every Storage into Collaborative Creative Storage and Lower Costs by 50%
With CLICK, Trick and Mortar were able to turn 50TB of nearline storage on Storj, Backblaze and Google Drive into high-performance creative storage. CLICK made it easy to mount, stream, and cache content from all of his storage silos directly in creative apps, turning low-cost storage into a powerful, accessible workflow tool.
But CLICK wasn’t just a cost-saver—it became the heart of Trick and Mortar’s new creative workflow. When Trick and Mortar learned that Amove offered storage tiers with better performance, lower pricing, and no egress fees, they started using Amove’s Global storage is the team’s primary cloud storage.
Then came more: the ability to turn his NAS into a shared cloud drive, improved integration with Iconik, and a realization that he was only just beginning to see the potential.
“We just want to focus on creativity—not fighting with storage systems or wasting time on file transfers. We were spending more time managing media than creating it. With CLICK, we’ve shifted to the cloud without giving up efficiency. Now we can work from anywhere, on any storage, and it still feels like we’re all in the same room.”
-Dave Gorrie, Owner & CTO
