One person often writes on a digital medium using a single device. However, most writing involves sub-processes within that feed into the document. For example, research that takes place while writing an academic report or a blog post influences the writing process quite a bit. Likewise, adding rich media to documents and formatting text are all added to the core writing experience, which gives rise to the modern content creation workflow. Vertical is a co-located mobile content creation platform that explores the interactions between people while they create collaboratively in different co-located settings. It works by separating the more complex aspects of creating a document into multiple devices, which can then be used by different people working together, effectively disaggregating the components of the modern content creation workflow. The project aims to be an exploratory probe into the kind of interactions that occur while disaggregating the complex task of creation.