We design and build the parts of a product that decide whether people stay – onboarding, the first screen, the moment something goes wrong.
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Strategy
Every engagement ends with your team owning the result. Three phases, each one deployed before the next begins.
Scope
One week. We agree on what the engagement is for and what it is explicitly not for, in writing.
Build
Two-week increments, each ending in something deployed. No milestone is a document.
Hand over
Your team ships the last increment with us watching, rather than us shipping it and leaving.What we do
Selected work
All case studies
Atlas2026
Cutting a five-step signup to one screenA data platform whose trial conversion was losing people between account creation and first query.Product design
Frontend engineering
Harbor2026
One component library across four product teamsFour teams, four button components, four opinions about spacing. A shared system nobody had to be forced into.Design systems
Frontend engineering
Meridian2025
A dashboard that loads before you finish blinkingAn analytics product where the main view took eleven seconds to become useful.Frontend engineering
“They spent the first week arguing us out of half our scope, and the half that survived shipped on the date they said it would.”
VP ProductSeries B logistics platform
Let's plan and build your next venture
Sprint
€9,000/ two weeks
One surface, scoped and shipped. Good for a landing page or a single flow.Scope workshop
Two-week build
Deployed on your infrastructure
Engagement
Most booked
€24,000/ six weeks
A product area end to end — design, build and the system underneath it.Everything in Sprint
Design system handover
Accessibility and performance pass
Embedded
From €12,000/ per month
We join your team on a standing basis and leave the capability behind.Standing capacity
Your tools and rituals
Handover plan from week one
Frequently asked questions
Northbound
We design and build the parts of a product that decide whether people stay: onboarding, the first screen, the moment something goes wrong.Talk to us
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