Studio
An independent design & engineering studio in Kansas City, where you work directly with the person building your project.
Most teams are either designers who can't build or engineers who can't design. We're the rare third thing. And you work with that person directly, from the first call to launch.
An independent studio in Kansas City. From the first call to launch, you work with the same person who's actually building it. No account managers, no middlemen, nobody passing you around.
We've built across just about everything: a construction operations platform, a social network that's live in the App Store, online marketplaces, smart-hardware control, and AI tools that run real businesses. Whatever you need, chances are we've built something like it before.
If it lives on a screen and it should look like the most expensive thing your customers see all day — that's the work.
Six rules we don't break.
The studio runs on a short list of principles. They're the things that make working together feel less like hiring an agency and more like having a senior builder on your side.
One person, start to finish
The person who designs it is the person who builds it and ships it. No account managers, no hand-offs, nothing lost in translation between a designer and a dev who never spoke.
You don't pay until it's right
Work happens in the open on a live link. Websites take no deposit at all; apps, platforms, and stores start with 20%. Either way, the balance is due only when you're genuinely satisfied.
Built by hand, not assembled
No templates, no page-builders, no off-the-shelf themes dressed up to look custom. Every screen is designed and coded for you specifically, which is why it doesn't look like everyone else's.
It works as well as it looks
Speed, accessibility, and SEO aren't upsells. A 90+ performance score, keyboard-friendly markup, clean structure underneath: that's the baseline. They're the parts customers feel even when they can't name them.
You own everything
Code, domain, hosting, accounts: all in your name from day one. No lock-in. No hostage situations, and no paying monthly rent on your own website. If we ever part ways, you keep all of it.
Straight answers, always
If something's a bad idea, over-scoped, or a waste of your money, we'll tell you. Even when the easy thing is to nod and keep the invoice running. You get honesty, not a sales pitch.
Don't pay
until you
love it.
No deposit games
On websites, none at all. On apps, platforms, and stores, twenty percent to start, and you watch real progress on a live URL before another dollar moves.
Revise until it's right
We refine until it clears the bar we set together. Not “close enough,” but right.
Pay only when thrilled
If the finished work doesn't make you proud to show it off, the balance isn't due. On a website, that means nothing at all.
- Step 1Tell us about the project. No commitment, no cost.
- Step 2We design and build in the open, on a live link you can watch.
- Step 3You pay once it clears the bar we set together. Apps, platforms, and stores start with a 20% deposit; websites start with nothing.
That's the whole deal. Most of the risk stays with us. Your only job is to tell us when it's right.
Start a projectTalk to the person
who'll build it.
Two-minute brief, no commitment. Websites take no deposit, and you don't pay until you're satisfied.
Start your project