§01 ▸ hero/compute.field
Web, mobile, AI & cloud — engineered to ship.
§02 ▸ services/disciplines
Design and engineering sit together from day one — so strategy, interface and infrastructure move as a single system instead of a relay race between vendors.
Strategy → UI
Research, product strategy, and interface design in one loop. We prototype fast, validate with real users, and hand engineering a system — not a stack of screens.
React · Next.js · Go
Fast, accessible web products built on TypeScript, React and Next.js with Go or Node services behind them. Type-safe end to end, tested, and ready to scale.
iOS · Android · RN
Native-feeling apps with React Native and Swift/Kotlin where it counts — offline-first, buttery animations, and a release pipeline your team can own.
LLMs · RAG · eval
Applied AI that earns its keep — retrieval pipelines, evals, agents and inference infra wired into your product, with guardrails and cost controls built in.
AWS · K8s · IaC
Infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and observability from day one. We make deploys boring and rollbacks instant, so shipping never becomes the scary part.
Most engagements begin with a short paid discovery sprint — a week to map the problem, de-risk the build, and leave you with a plan you own.
§03 ▸ work/exhibits
Products we designed and built end to end — each shown as the system we drew for it, with the numbers it runs on.
Northwind Logistics
A regional carrier ran dispatch on spreadsheets and phone calls. We rebuilt it as a real-time platform with live tracking and automated routing.
faster dispatch
loads / driver
to launch
Lumen Health
A digital-health startup needed a HIPAA-ready companion app. We designed and shipped an offline-first React Native product in one quarter.
App Store rating
D30 retention
compliant
Quanta AI
Quanta had docs sprawl across ten tools. We built a retrieval copilot with evals and guardrails that answers in-context, with citations teams trust.
answer accuracy
support tickets
p95 latency
Meridian Pay
A fintech needed ledgered payments hardened for a national launch. We rearchitected the core services and the deploy pipeline behind them.
uptime at launch
throughput
launch-day incidents
§04 ▸ process/pipeline
One loop, run by senior people. Every stage ends in something real — a decision, a prototype, a demo, a deploy — so momentum never stalls in a doc.
We pressure-test the problem, the users and the constraints — then agree on what success looks like and what we are not building yet.
Flows, interface and a design system, validated with clickable prototypes so decisions get made on real screens, not slide decks.
Small, senior teams shipping in weekly increments. Type-safe, tested, reviewed — with a demo you can click at the end of every sprint.
Deploys are automated and boring. We roll out behind flags, watch the dashboards, and keep rollbacks one click away.
We stay for the part that matters — performance, reliability and iteration — and hand your team a codebase they are glad to own.
§05 ▸ stack/graph
We pick boring, proven tools and use them extremely well. This is the dependency graph behind the studio — hover a node to trace how it connects to the core.
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§06 ▸ signal/git-log
cobalt shipped in eleven weeks what our last vendor could not in a year. They think like owners and write code we are proud to maintain.
The design and engineering are genuinely one team. Every sprint ended in something we could click, test and put in front of real patients.
They made our AI copilot trustworthy — evals, citations, cost controls. Support volume dropped by nearly half in the first month.
§08 ▸ studio/principles
cobalt is a tight team of designers and engineers who have shipped in startups and at scale. No account managers between you and the people building — you talk to the team doing the work, every week.
We run in focused four-day design sprints, review every line, and open-source what we can. Remote-first since 2016, with a home base in Austin, TX · Remote-first.
100%
senior engineers
4-day
design sprints
Remote
first, always
Open
source friendly
§08.1 ▸ lab/open-source
§07 ▸ contact/start
Send a few lines about the product and the outcome you need. We reply within one business day — usually with questions and a suggested first step.
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