Questions founders actually ask.

Most product, web, and brand engagements run ten weeks: two weeks of discovery, two weeks of direction, then a six-week build with weekly demos. Strategy-only work can finish in two to four weeks. Fractional CTO seats are ongoing retainers after launch.

Project work typically starts in the $25–75k range for a focused site or brand system, $75–150k for a full product or mobile app, and $150k+ for multi-surface platforms. A fractional CTO seat is a monthly retainer. We take a small number of engagements each quarter so the people who scope the work also build it.

Both. We work with seed and Series A startups, owner-operated small businesses, and teams modernizing a legacy platform. The common thread is a founder or operator in the room and a problem that needs senior judgment, not a large account team.

The studio is on Camano Island, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest. We work with clients across the United States — remotely by default, on-site when the work needs it. Local search and Pacific Northwest companies are a natural fit.

A signed one-pager and technical spike, three testable directions, a build spec, weekly design and engineering demos, and a launch runway. You see a working product every Friday. After week ten we stay on retainer, hand the codebase to your team, or convert to a fractional CTO seat.

We design and ship production AI products — copilots, agents, and generative interfaces — and we integrate models when that is the right call. Twenty years of enterprise architecture means we choose the model, the interaction, and the deployment path with an eye on what the thing looks like twelve months after launch.

Yes. A modernization starts with a crawl, URL map, and content inventory so we preserve indexable URLs, redirects, and the pages that already earn traffic. The rebuild ships on a fast, indexable stack with structured data, a sitemap, and Core Web Vitals as acceptance criteria — not as a post-launch wish list.

Send a short brief through the contact form — what you are building, who it is for, and when you need it. A partner replies within one business day. If it is a fit, week one is discovery, not a pitch deck.

Whatever the product needs and a small team can maintain: Swift, Kotlin, and React Native for mobile; Next.js and modern CMS platforms for web; current frontier and open models for AI products, with evals and retrieval on your infrastructure. We do not sell a single stack.

Yes. The studio is on Camano Island in the Pacific Northwest; most engagements are remote across the United States. We travel when the work needs a room.

We book a small number of seats per quarter. Availability is listed on the site. Discovery can start as soon as a slot opens — usually the first two weeks after a yes.