Design and systems work you can put into production

For teams whose product depends on more than one system talking to each other. We map the current architecture, name the constraints (hardware, data, compliance, vendor lock-in), and design the integration path. Boston clients with a mix of on-premise and cloud systems use this most, because the integration path is where the unknowns live.

Screen-level design for a product that has real users and real states. Wireframes, prototypes, and interface design that an engineering team can implement without a second interpretation. We work from the component level up, so a design decision made on one screen is a decision made everywhere that component appears.

A design system is a maintenance commitment, and we build it as one. Tokens, components, usage rules, and contribution guidelines, documented so a new engineer can add a component without asking a designer. Teams that already have a system but no adoption usually need this work more than they need a new system.

Design files that reach engineering as guesswork cost more than they save. We set up handoff so specs, tokens, and component behavior travel with the file, using Dev Mode-style inspection workflows and naming that matches the codebase. This can be a short engagement on its own, and it is the one that most often removes a weekly meeting from a team's calendar.

We place AI tools where they change a specific step: code generation and refactoring in the editor with Cursor, long-document analysis with Claude, drafting and summarization with ChatGPT, and enterprise in-app assistance through Microsoft Copilot. We do not recommend AI in a step where a deterministic tool does the job better.

Webflow and similar platforms are the right answer for a lot of marketing sites, and the wrong answer for a lot of product applications. We help you pick, then integrate what you choose with your existing systems so it does not become a parallel stack.

Deployment should be repeatable and it should be yours. We set up build and deployment pipelines, and stand up self-hosted tooling where a team needs to keep design or code assets inside its own infrastructure. Penpot's self-hosting option is a common piece of this, as is a CI/CD pipeline that runs the same way on a laptop and on the server.

For teams choosing a toolchain and needing a defensible decision. We compare the realistic candidates against your constraints (exportability, integration, governance, cost model, exit path) and write the recommendation with the trade-offs stated. Useful when procurement, security, and engineering all have to agree and nobody wants to own the call alone.

After a build, some teams want us available for the next phase of changes. Retainers are monthly, scoped by hours and by what counts as in-scope, and include a named contact on our side. We do not use retainers to keep you dependent; the goal is that your team can run the system without us.