Two project slots open · Spring '26
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✱ Strategy, design, engineering, ops. Every phase, one studio. Most MVPs ship in 4 to 8 weeks
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products shipped
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DISCOVERY
STRATEGY
DESIGN
ENGINEERING
TESTING
DEPLOY
MAINTAIN
ITERATE
DISCOVERY
STRATEGY
DESIGN
ENGINEERING
TESTING
DEPLOY
MAINTAIN
ITERATE
02 / What We do
Four jobs. One studio.
Hire the studio end-to-end, or for a single phase
01
Strategy
Discovery, scope, MVP shape. Cheapest mistake is the one we don't make.
User researchRoadmap
02
Design
Design that survives engineering. UI, systems, zero handoff debt.
UXUISystems
03
Engineering
Production Next.js and TypeScript. Code we'd inherit.
Next.jsTypeScriptTailwind
04
Operate
Ship it, watch it, evolve it. Or hand it off — clean repo, no surprises.
VercelSentryAnalytics
03 / How it goes
From maybe to shipped.
01Discover
Workshops, scope & requirements.
~2–3 wk
02Design
UI & design system.
~1–2 wk
03Build
Production code & E2E tests.
~3–6 wk
04Deploy
CI/CD & monitoring.
~1 day
05Maintain
Iteration & evolution.
~ongoing
No handoffs
Same person from kickoff to deploy.
Fixed phases
Fixed price and timeline per phase.
Async by default
Loom > meetings.
Clean repo
Handoff-ready from day one.
04 / Stack
Boring tools.
Sharp execution.
Frontend
Next.js
React
TypeScript
Tailwind
Framer Motion
shadcn/ui
Backend
Node
Express
Drizzle
MySQL
API integrations
Infra
Vercel
AWS
Other
Figma
Slack
Atlassian Suite
JetBrains Suite
05 / Selected work
The receipts.
06 / What people say
Said about the work.
[ founder portrait ]
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07 / About
Behind the studio.
Studio Seahorse is run by Vikram — 5 years building products end-to-end. SaaS, internal tools, integrations.
We take on a small number of projects each year and run them end-to-end.
Same person from kickoff to deploy. No handoffs, no account managers.
EXPERIENCE
5 yrs full lifecycle. SaaS, internal tools, integrations.
BASED IN
Italy. EU-friendly contracts and invoicing.
LANGUAGES
English · Italian
WORKING STYLE
Async by default. One studio call per week.
AI is part of how we work, not what we sell.
We use it across discovery, code, design, and ops to compress the work that used to need a team. Decisions stay with us — architecture, scope, what ships, what doesn't. You're hiring senior judgment with AI as the lever underneath, not the other way around.