What we do, and how we charge for it.
We work in pods of three to five seniors, on retainers measured in months, with deliverables defined upfront. Below is what each pod looks like, what they ship, and what they tend to cost.
Production websites that age well.
Marketing sites, web apps, dashboards, content platforms — built on stacks chosen for the next five years, not the next quarter. We design for editorial flexibility, server performance, and the team that will own the code after we hand it over.
- Server-rendered apps with sub-second TTI on the most-trafficked pages
- CMS integration that designers and copywriters actually enjoy
- Accessibility audited to WCAG 2.2 AA, not as an afterthought
- Documented architecture, written tests, real handoff
Native apps, built like furniture.
iOS, Android, and the rare cross-platform project that earns it. We've shipped consumer apps to nine-figure install counts and B2B apps to skeptical fleet operators. Both demand discipline — different kinds.
- Swift / SwiftUI on iOS, Kotlin / Compose on Android
- React Native or Flutter when the case is genuinely there
- Offline-first architecture, sync conflict resolution, the boring parts
- Store submission, beta cohorts, telemetry that helps you ship faster
Interface design with a spine.
Design systems, product flows, brand-meets-product work. We bring opinions, rigor, and a strong preference for the unflashy choice over the demo-friendly one. Our deliverables ship — they're not just pretty in Figma.
- Design tokens that translate cleanly to code, no drift
- Component libraries documented for engineers, not just designers
- Usability tested on real users, not stakeholders performing
- Motion design that earns its weight, never decorative
Infrastructure that doesn't wake you at 3am.
We've spent more on-call hours than we care to count. We use that experience to build the kind of platform that mostly runs itself — observable, reproducible, recoverable, and patient with the next engineer.
- Infrastructure-as-code with Terraform and sane modules
- Kubernetes when it earns its complexity, ECS or simpler when it doesn't
- Observability stack: metrics, logs, traces, real SLOs
- Disaster recovery you've actually rehearsed, not just documented
Models, deployed. Not just demoed.
We're skeptical of most AI projects we get pitched, and we tell you so before we sign. The work we do take on is the work we believe will be measurably better with ML in production — search, recommendations, summarization, classification, retrieval-augmented systems built to scale.
- RAG systems with retrieval that actually retrieves the right thing
- Fine-tuning on small, well-labeled datasets — not vibes
- Classical ML where neural overkill would just slow you down
- Eval harnesses, not vibes-based deploys
Roadmaps that survive contact with the year.
We help teams figure out what to build, in what order, and why — using the same brain that figures out how. Strategy work without engineering depth tends to produce decks. We produce decisions you can ship behind.
- Discovery sprints with the actual users, not just the buyers
- Roadmap, sequencing, dependency mapping that engineering recognizes
- Pricing, packaging, positioning — the unsexy three
- Honest, written deliverables, not 80-slide PowerPoints
Four phases. No surprises.
We use the same rhythm on every engagement, from a four-week mobile sprint to a year-long platform rebuild. The tempo changes; the steps don't.
Discovery
A week or two of interviews, audits, and writing. We end with a written diagnosis you can disagree with — better an early argument than a late one.
Design
Architecture, interface, and information design happen together, not in sequence. We prototype the hard parts before estimating the rest.
Build
Two-week iterations, demos every Friday, no surprises. You see what we're shipping before we ship it; we hear what's wrong before it's expensive to fix.
Handoff
Documented architecture, walked-through code, recorded transitions. We stay on retainer for the first quarter post-launch — not the first week.
Tell us what you're actually trying to ship.
A short call to see if we're the right fit. If we are, a written proposal lands within a week. If we aren't, we'll point you somewhere that is.