What we offer

Services that ship.

From a single design audit to a multi-year platform build, we plug in where you need craft, judgement, and quiet execution. Every engagement is bespoke — no retainers, no fluff.

01 / Design

Product & brand design

We design end-to-end product surfaces and the brand systems underneath them. Outputs you can hand to engineering without translation loss.

  • Design audits & heuristics
  • Brand & identity systems
  • Information architecture
  • Design tokens & style guides
  • Interactive prototypes
02 / Engineering

Software engineering

Production-grade code with tests, type safety, and observability. We build for the team that has to maintain it after we leave.

  • Web & edge applications
  • Mobile (iOS, Android, RN)
  • API & platform design
  • DevOps & observability
  • Code review & rescue
03 / Intelligence

Applied AI

AI features that respect your users. We build on-device inference, retrieval pipelines, and agentic systems that you can actually reason about.

  • LLM integration & RAG
  • On-device inference
  • Agentic workflows
  • Privacy-preserving ML
  • Evaluation & guardrails
04 / Advisory

Strategy & advisory

Sometimes the answer isn't more code — it's a different question. We help teams make technology decisions with clearer eyes.

  • Technical due diligence
  • Architecture review
  • Privacy & compliance audits
  • Team coaching & hiring
Recent work

Selected projects, shipped and quiet.

A small selection of engagements from the last 18 months. Most of what we build is under NDA — the rest we share here.

Northwind Console

Fintech · Web

Operator console for a B2B treasury product. Replaced a 12-tab spreadsheet workflow with a single calm interface.

ReactTypeScriptDesign System

Helios Inbox

AI · iOS / Android

On-device summarization and triage for a privacy-conscious mail client. Zero round-trips to the cloud.

SwiftKotlinCoreML

Axiom Analytics

Data · Web

Realtime cohort analytics with privacy-preserving aggregation. Renders 10M+ events without a single identifier leaving the device.

RustWASMDuckDB

Lumen Scheduler

Health · Web / Mobile

Scheduling for a network of independent clinicians. Calmer than the average EMR, smarter than the average calendar.

Next.jstRPCPostgres

Vector Care

Health · iOS

Companion app for a chronic care program. Built around habit loops and asynchronous messaging — not notifications.

SwiftUIHealthKitCareKit

Polaris Studio

Creator · Web

A writing studio for long-form authors. Local-first drafts, end-to-end encrypted sync, and a focus mode that genuinely helps.

CRDTIndexedDBEdge
Engagement

Three ways to work together.

Sprint

Audit & discovery

A focused 2–4 week engagement with a single deliverable: a written diagnosis and a 90-day plan. Fixed price.

From $8,000

Studio

Embedded team

1–3 of us integrated with your team for 3–6 months. Slack, GitHub, standups — the lot. Outcome-based pricing.

From $32,000 / mo

Studio+

Long-term partnership

Multi-year retainers for teams who want a stable, senior partner. Roadmap, technical leadership, and steady shipping.

By proposal

Tell us about the work

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