Small studio

Particular about what we build.

A small studio. Fewer things, done particularly well. We run what we ship, 11pm bug fixes included.

Work with usFeatured work

Services

Two ways to work with us

Fixed prices, quoted per milestone. Never hourly.

Run your business with AI

Small businesses, 5 to 50 people

  1. 01Free scorecardfreeSeven questions. An honest read on where you stand.
  2. 02AI readiness auditfrom $1,500A written plan, EN/ES, credited toward lilis if you continue.
  3. 03lilis managedfixed monthlyQuoted after the audit. One number, usage capped, tuned every month.
Take the free scorecard

Build something custom

Founders and teams with a product to ship

  1. 01Discovery and auditfrom $2,000One to two weeks. Credits toward the build within 30 days.
  2. 02Fixed-price buildfixed quoteMilestones, deposit up front, an out-of-scope list longer than feels comfortable.
  3. 03Care retainerfixed monthlyWe run what we ship. 11pm bug fixes included.
Tell us about your project

What the studio is building now

lilis

Beta

A managed coworker for the messages that run your business.

Email and texts come in. lilis reads them, prepares the reply, reminder, or next step, and a person approves it before anything goes out. Hosted, bilingual, and tuned every month by the studio that built it.

  • It proposes, you approve. Every send is confirmed by a person.
  • Spending limits and never-automate rules are enforced mechanically, not suggested to the model.
  • It answers the phone too. Calls land in the same inbox as email and texts, with the same approval step.
See lilisEverything we ship
  1. Message arrives01

    A customer writes in

    Email or SMS, English or Spanish

  2. Prepared action02

    Reply and follow-up ready

    Evidence attached

  3. Human decision03

    Approved by you

    No hidden send

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Principles

How I think about building.

01

Fewer things, finished.

I build a small number of things and finish them. The graveyard of half-built side projects taught me this one personally.

02

The system remembers so I don't.

ADHD founder. The tooling does the remembering (tickets and journey maps) so my brain can do the building.

03

Boring stack, interesting product.

Postgres, Bun, Next.js, Hono. The stack should disappear. If you remember my infrastructure, something went wrong.

04

Build in public. Ship in private.

Thinking out loud refines the idea. First drafts belong in a notebook, not a press release.