Best for
Teams who own their product but don't want to own the agency.
We build the React/Next side of your product alongside the backend it talks to. The boring tools — Postgres, Node, React (even PHP when it earns its place) — chosen because they hold up at every scale we've seen, and because the engineer you hire next year will already know them.
We start with the data model and the URLs, not the screens. The boring decisions — how the routes are shaped, what the database looks like in three years, who owns the deploy on Christmas Eve — are the ones that decide whether the product is still standing in two years. We make them on purpose, in the open, and we write down why.
Then we work in the open. The repo is yours from day one, the deploy log is shared, every sticky decision is captured in a one-page note in the repo. The Friday update is real. By the time we hand off, there's no tribal knowledge to inherit — just code and reasoning, written for the team who'll have it after us, or us if you wish to.
What we build
- 01Custom CMSes when the off-the-shelf one starts costing you an hour a day.
- 02Marketing sites that don't lie about what the product does.
- 03Internal dashboards that replace the Tuesday-morning Excel ritual.
- 04Payment, auth, and billing flows for the parts you can't get wrong.
Signals to call us
- §A three-year-old marketing site has become a CMS the team quietly hates.
- §An off-the-shelf tool is starting to cost you an hour a day in workarounds.
- §The current app works, but only one person knows how to redeploy it.
- §You need to ship a payments, auth, or billing flow you can't get wrong.
When this isn't us
Twelve-screen prototype-grade apps with a two-week deadline. We're aiming for quality work on purpose, and that isn't the right fit for a hackathon timeline.
Stack
One conversation, no proposal deck.
Sixty minutes on the phone. We bring questions. You bring the problem. By the end, both of us know if it's a fit — usually within the first ten.
Studio · admission
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Q2 · 2 of 3 spots open