DESIGN & BUILD STUDIO · AI-NATIVE · ASYNC-FIRST

We design and buildyour product.In weeks, not quarters.

One embedded creative technologist — design lead, build lead, product thinker. We close the gap between funded and launched.

THE PROBLEM

Design or build. Pick one.

Most founders hit the same wall. The design agency can't build. The dev shop can't design. Hiring both takes six months and $300K/year. Agencies take longer and deliver something that needs rebuilding anyway.

FORMCAST closes the gap. One person. Full stack. No handoffs. AI-native workflows make this possible — we build in days what used to take entire sprints.

TraditionalFORMCAST
Design agency design, build design + build
Dev shop design, build design + build
Timeline3–6 months2–4 weeks
Cost$50K–$200K$7.5K–$25K
HandoffsManyNone
WHAT WE DO

Four ways to work together.

PROOF
$7,500 – $12,000 · Fixed · 2–4 weeks
Your idea becomes a deployed product.

We take a defined brief and ship a real, live, production-quality v1. Designed, built, deployed. Not a prototype — something people can use.

BEST FOR: Founders validating an idea. Investor demo builds. Pre-launch products.
SPRINT
$4,000 – $6,000 · Fixed · 5–10 days
One hard problem, solved completely.

An intensive delivery block for a defined deliverable — a feature, a redesign, a dashboard. Scoped tight, shipped fast, handed off clean.

BEST FOR: Teams with an existing product who need one thing done right.
PARTNER
$8,000 – $12,000/month · Min. 3 months
Your embedded design and build lead.

Ongoing, async-first. We're in your product every week — making design decisions, shipping features, evolving the system. Senior creative technologist without the hiring timeline.

BEST FOR: Post-launch startups. Series A teams without a design hire yet.
FRACTIONAL
$5,000 – $8,000/month · Min. 2 months
Senior product brain, part-time.

Less hands-on than PARTNER — more advisory, more architectural. Best when you have some build capacity but need senior design and product judgment on top.

BEST FOR: Teams with a developer who need senior creative technologist input.
SELECTED WORK

What we've shipped.

Every project below includes the estimated time and cost a traditional agency or freelance team would have charged. We ship faster.

MINDFUL MILLING CO
Mindful Milling Co

Full e-commerce and marketing stack for a specialty mill. Shopify, Klaviyo, Google Ads, brand identity.

TRADITIONAL$28,000 – $45,000
FORMCAST$9,500
TIME SAVED8 wks → 10 days
COHESION
Cohesion

AI-powered internal operations platform. Claude Sonnet edge functions, 7-table Supabase schema, full design system.

TRADITIONAL$80,000 – $140,000
FORMCASTInternal build
TIME SAVED6 mo → ongoing sprints
DIGITAL FIRST REPORT
Digital First Report

Branded SaaS portal over an ArcGIS data layer. Auth shell, marketing site, Phase 2 rebuild roadmap.

TRADITIONAL$55,000 – $90,000
FORMCASTPart of engagement
TIME SAVED4 mo → 3 weeks
THE STACK

AI-native tools. Production-grade output.

We build with tools that compress timelines without compressing quality. The result: what used to take a quarter takes weeks.

DESIGN
Figma · Design systems · Motion
BUILD
Lovable · Claude · Cursor · Claude Code
DEPLOY
Vercel · GitHub · Supabase
COMMERCE
Shopify · Klaviyo · Google Ads
IMAGERY
Magnific · Midjourney · Runway
3–5×
faster than a traditional agency
60–80%
less than a full-time design + engineering hire
START A PROJECT

Tell us what you're building.

We respond within 24 hours. No sales call required. You'll get a written brief, not a slide deck.

async-first · no cold calls · responses within 24 hours