Better web products, together.

Strategy, design and development for teams that need a sharp product partner, not another layer of meetings.

  • Strategy
  • Development
  • Real outcomes

From first sketch to something people use every day.

We're a small team that only takes on a few products at a time, start to finish. You'll be speaking to the people doing the work, no off-shore resourcing, just craft and quality you can trust.

  1. Product strategy

    Find the smallest version worth building, and what would prove it is working.

  2. Design and build

    Fast, accessible web apps on modern infrastructure, shipped in weeks rather than quarters.

  3. Grow with you

    Stay on after launch to measure, fix and improve, or hand over a codebase your team can own.

Recent work.

What we have been designing and building lately.

  • iPhone and iPad app

    PennySprout

    A family chores app we designed and built ourselves, from the first sketch to the finished app.

    • Native SwiftUI for iPhone and iPad, with home screen widgets
    • More than 750 automated tests behind every change

    coming to the App Store

    The PennySprout task list, with each chore and what it pays
    PennySprout savings goals, with progress toward a skateboard and an art set

How a project runs.

Four steps, and you can see the work at every one of them.

  1. day one

    A first conversation

    Half an hour on what you are building and what is in the way. No pitch deck.

  2. within a week

    A written plan

    What we would build first, how long it takes and what it costs, in plain words.

  3. every fortnight

    Build in the open

    A working version you can click through every two weeks, so nothing is a surprise.

  4. launch day

    Ship it, then your call

    We watch how people use it and fix what they trip on, or hand your team a codebase they can own.

We would rather tell you what not to build than bill you for it. Most good products start smaller than you think.

Got an idea worth building?

Tell us what you're working on, where it's at, and what's in the way.

Start a project

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