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Application Development Studio

The engineering behind
ambitious projects.

We partner with designers, agencies, and founders to build the complex applications that turn great ideas into production-grade platforms.

No templates. No handoffs. One team, start to finish.

Great designers craft the experience. We build the engineering underneath it — the authentication, the database architecture, the payment logic, the API layer. We're the technical partner that makes ambitious designs actually work.

What We Build

Every engagement is a
technical partnership.

We work alongside your team — or become your team — to ship applications that scale. Here's where we focus.

01

Application Architecture & MVP Build

From zero to production-grade — without the tech debt.

8–16 week sprint
  • Full-stack scaffolding with Next.js App Router and TypeScript
  • Supabase schema design with row-level security and migrations
  • Authentication flows with session handling and protected routes
  • Deployment pipeline on Vercel with preview environments
02

SaaS Platform Development

Multi-tenant, subscription-ready, built for the long game.

Sprint + retainer
  • Multi-tenant data architecture with organization-scoped RLS
  • Stripe subscriptions, usage billing, and dunning logic
  • Admin dashboard with user management and feature flags
  • Typed API layer with rate limiting and documented contracts
03

Commerce & Membership Systems

Checkout flows and membership logic that don't get in the way of conversion.

4–10 week sprint
  • Commerce7 theming and product catalog architecture
  • Stripe Checkout with subscriptions, trials, and metered billing
  • Membership gating with database-backed access control
  • Order lifecycle automation and failed-payment recovery
04

Integration Engineering & API Layer

Your systems should talk to each other. We wire them up correctly.

2–6 week sprint
  • Third-party API integrations with OAuth and error recovery
  • Webhook infrastructure with signature verification and retries
  • Internal API design with versioning and typed contracts
  • Background jobs for async processing and event-driven workflows
05

Platform Retainer & Technical Partnership

An engineering partner embedded in your roadmap, not a vendor waiting on tickets.

Monthly retainer
  • Dedicated monthly capacity for features and architecture evolution
  • Sprint planning, async standups, and documented decision logs
  • Performance reviews, database analysis, and quarterly audits
  • Priority incident response with runbooks and post-mortems
06

Technical Discovery & Architecture Review

Before you build, know what you're building into.

1–2 week engagement
  • Codebase audit: architecture, dependencies, and security surface
  • Database schema review with RLS and query performance profiling
  • Documented recommendations with decision rationale
  • Roadmap sequencing: which investments unlock the most value

How We Work

A process built for
complex projects.

01

Discovery

We learn your business, audit your current stack, and define what success looks like — before writing a line of code.

02

Architecture

We design the schema, map the integrations, and scope the work into phased milestones with clear decision gates.

03

Build

Iterative development with preview deployments, async standups, and a shared backlog so you always know what's shipping.

04

Launch & Scale

Production deployment, monitoring setup, and a transition plan — or an ongoing retainer to keep building together.

Built with

Next.jsReactTypeScriptSupabaseVercelStripeNode.jsTailwind
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Let's build something
worth maintaining.

Whether you're a founder with an MVP in mind, a designer who needs an engineering partner, or a team ready to scale — we'd like to hear about your project.