App development
The studio builds software with the same hands that build the sites. Native apps, web applications, the internal tool your business runs on.
Commission an app →Why us for this
A website is finished on launch day. An app has accounts, data, a backend, and people who depend on it tomorrow. That is a different craft, and a different commitment. Most studios that build sites quietly outsource the software. We build it in the room, the same way we build everything else: considered, owned end to end, and carried after it ships.
Repstra, BackOnTools and Vigil are not mockups. They are working software in real hands, shipped by this studio. That is the proof we would rather show you than promise.
What we build
An app on the App Store, in your customer's pocket. Built native for iOS, submitted under our developer team or yours, with TestFlight builds you actually try before launch. Push notifications, offline state, payments, the lot.
Shipped to the App Store
Not a brochure, a product: accounts, a database, a backend, and the logic your business actually runs on. Auth, billing, dashboards, integrations. The kind of build that earns its keep every day, not just on launch day.
Auth · data · backend
The spreadsheet that has outgrown itself. The workflow held together by tabs and memory. We build the quiet tool that runs the back of the business, so the team stops fighting the process and gets the work done.
Built to fit how you work
How a build runs
Every app moves through the same stages. The first one is permission to say no, because the kindest thing a studio can do with the wrong idea is tell you before you have paid for it.
A short, honest brief: what it does, who it is for, what success looks like. We name the smallest version that is still worth shipping.
A real decision before a line is written. If the idea does not hold up, we say so and you keep your money. If it does, we tell you the number and the shape of the build.
The stack, the data model, the integrations, the costs that run after launch. Decided up front, written down, so nothing is a surprise in month three.
Designed and built in the open, with a dedicated channel and working builds you can hold. You see it become real, not a status update saying it is going well.
To the App Store, to your domain, into your team's hands. Submission, review, launch and the build note that tells you exactly what changed and what to test.
The part most people forget. Every app leaves with a care plan, because a backend left unattended is how products quietly break.
Every build includes
No half a product. The build that ships is the build that works, with the unglamorous parts done properly.
What moves the price: the size of the product, how many integrations it touches, whether it needs its own Apple team, and whether a brand has to be built first. We name the number at the intake call, not after weeks of scoping.
Working proof
A SaaS product built from zero: accounts, data, billing, the lot. The studio's flagship software commission, and the clearest answer to "can you build a real product."
An AI receptionist for trades, live and taking bookings. A working app with a backend, a phone integration and real customers, not a demo.
A native iOS app, designed, built and shipped through the App Store. Proof the studio takes an app the whole way, from idea to a thing you install.
We build it in the room. The same hands, the whole way.
What it costs
Milestone schedule · ex-GST
An app is priced to the product, not to a page count, so the number comes from the brief rather than from this page. Most app commissions begin where Flagship does, from $25,000, and move with the size of the build. You hear the number at the intake call, on milestones you pay against as the work is done.
Then it carries on. Every app leaves with an Application Care plan from $1,200/mo, priced to the product: dependency and security updates, uptime and error monitoring, verified backups, incident response, and a budgeted allowance of build hours each month for small features.
Commission an app →Ready
The idea, who it is for, and what a working version looks like to you. We will read it before the call, and tell you honestly whether to build it.
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