Nimbus
Analytics platform / 2024Event data was piling up faster than anyone could read it. We built a copilot that answers questions in plain English and shows its working.
Next.jsClaudePostgreSQL
68%
lift in activation
Taking on two projects for Q1
Software that earns
its place on the
home screen.
We are a small studio that designs and builds websites, mobile apps, and AI-powered products. Senior people only, working directly with you.
vela / checkout
Checkout completion
71.4%
rebuild shipped0.6s load
- Products shipped
- 0
- Clients who came back
- 0%
- Median load time
- 0.0s
- Average rating
- 0.0
Shipped for
NimbusVelaOrbitForgeLumenCadenceNorthwindHalcyonNimbusVelaOrbitForgeLumenCadenceNorthwindHalcyon
What we do
Five things, done properly, instead of twenty done adequately.
Why us
What actually makes the difference.
Most studios promise the same things. These are the ones we are willing to be measured on.
Fast where it counts
We budget performance like a feature and measure it every release. Real devices, real networks, no vanity scores.
Design that does a job
Good-looking is the floor. Every screen is built to move someone one step closer to buying.
Code you can keep
Typed, tested, documented, handed over. No lock-in, and no rewrite forced on you in eighteen months.
A short path to a decision
Small team, few layers. Questions get answered in hours rather than routed through an account manager.
You talk to the makers
The people on your calls are the people writing the code, so nothing gets lost in translation.
Judged on what changed
We track load times, signups, and revenue after launch. Shipping a lot is not the same as helping.
How it goes
Ten weeks, five stages, no black boxes.
You see working software every two weeks and can change direction while it is still cheap to do so.
Discover
Week 1A week of questions. We map goals, users, and constraints, then send back a scope, a timeline, and a fixed price.
Design
Weeks 2 to 3Flows first, then wireframes, then finished UI in Figma. Nothing gets built until you have seen it and signed off.
Build
Weeks 4 to 9Two-week cycles, each ending in a working demo you can click. You steer while it is still cheap to change course.
Test
Week 10Real devices, edge cases, accessibility, and load. We would rather find the ugly problems than have your users find them.
Launch
OngoingWe deploy, watch the graphs, and fix whatever surfaces in the first weeks. Then we sit down and plan what is next.
Stack
Boring technology, chosen on purpose.
We pick tools with long support horizons and large hiring pools, so you are never stuck with something only we can maintain.
- Frontend
- Next.jsReactTypeScriptTailwind CSSFramer Motion
- Backend
- Node.jsGraphQLtRPCPythonGoPostgreSQL
- Mobile
- React NativeExpoSwiftKotlin
- AI and data
- ClaudeOpenAILangChainPineconeRedis
- Cloud and ops
- VercelAWSDockerCloudflareGitHub Actions
- Design
- FigmaFramerStorybookSpline
Selected work
Four problems, and what we did about them.
Vela
Commerce / 2024A storefront that took 4.2 seconds to load and lost people at checkout. Rebuilt headless, down to 0.6 seconds, with a three-step checkout.
HeadlessReactStripe
41%
more revenue
Orbit Health
Mobile / 2023Clinic staff needed records in basements with no signal. Offline-first from the start, with secure messaging and reminders that actually arrive.
React NativeHIPAAOffline
4.9
App Store rating
Forge
Internal tools / 2023Seven spreadsheets, four owners, and nightly copy-paste. Replaced with one platform where scheduling and inventory finally agree with each other.
CustomDashboardsAWS
12h
saved per week
References
What they said afterwards.
We had already burned six months with another agency. Snoveo had something in front of real customers in seven weeks. The difference was that they asked better questions before writing anything.
They pushed back on about half my ideas. It was irritating at the time and completely correct in hindsight. Checkout conversion is up 41 percent.
Two weeks after launch we hit a nasty scaling problem at 2am. Someone from their team was in the thread before I had finished writing up what was wrong.
Questions
The things people ask before signing.
Something not covered here? Email us and you will get a straight answer, not a sales sequence.
Most websites land between 8K and 20K. Apps and custom software usually start around 25K and go up with scope. After one call we send a fixed price, and it does not move unless you change what you asked for.
Tell us what you are trying to build.
A 30 minute call, no deck and no pressure. If we are not the right fit we will say so, and usually point you somewhere better.