Working with Studio

Start with your business.
Make the choices together.

Your knowledge of the business guides the project. Our engineers explain the technical choices and agree on what we’ll design, build, or teach. You know what you’re approving, what it costs, and how we’ll check it.

Talk about your app

Your first project

One useful
improvement at a time.

01

Show us how your business operates.

Walk us through a recent order, quote, or customer request. Show us the software involved and where things got difficult. Bring the colleagues who handle that process. We ask about the exceptions and agree what a better result would look like.

02

Agree on the scope before we start.

Choose a useful first change. We explain the options, agree cost and responsibilities, and decide how to check the result. Tell us what you want to delegate, what you want to learn, and who approves the result.

03

Build, question, and test.

Our engineers guide AI through the implementation and check its output. Review consequential choices together. For app changes, test business rules, access, and failure cases. Training can cover maintaining your app or using Swirls to build backends for future applications. Practice the skills you’ve chosen with an engineer.

04

Check the result against the goal.

Review the agreed outcomes and any unresolved issues. For app changes, prepare the release and operating instructions. Decide who handles support and future changes, then use feedback from the people using the application to choose what comes next.

Scope & costs

Know the cost to build
and what it costs to run.

We build with Swirls, the backend we own and maintain. Capabilities such as user access and scheduled processes are already in place, which reduces the backend development needed for your application. We scope the customer-facing screens and their hosting separately, along with the design, integrations, and other services your project requires.

We test representative tasks with you to estimate model usage, hosting, and third-party costs. Once the app is running, we can compare those estimates with actual use. Volume, larger inputs, and retries can change the bill.

We agree what’s included and what’s billed separately, including model and third-party charges. Hosting, Swirls usage, and Studio services can share one agreement and invoice.

If you’re delivering for a client, you set your offer. Include your discovery, delivery, training, and support when you price it.

Responsibilities

Agree who owns
each part of delivery.

Your team.

You own the requirements, client relationship, and acceptance decisions. Explain what a good result looks like and which exceptions matter. Choose how involved you want to be in the implementation and maintenance.

Studio.

We bring engineering judgment and take responsibility for the advice, implementation, training, or support in your agreement. We explain our recommendations and the evidence behind them. The agreement sets handoff and support expectations.

Swirls backend.

We own and maintain Swirls, the backend for hyperpersonalized applications. It runs the processes behind your app. The screens people use are built and hosted separately. Studio can help with that interface and client support under an agreed scope.

Before the first call

Tell us where
you want help.

Tell us who uses the app and what you want to improve. A recent example of a missed handoff, a slow task, or a feature you need is enough to start. Bring whatever you’ve built so far.

If you’d like to assess the app first, run the free assessment in your coding session and bring the main findings. The report stays with you. We’ll agree what additional material we need and how to share it.

Assess your app

IT & security review

Bring evidence
to the review.

We help document the system, its data flows, access rules, deployed settings, and tests. Record what still needs fixing, who will fix it, and how the team will check the result.

Your IT and security teams decide whether the app meets their requirements. If they require a penetration test, a specific certification, or an independent assessment, include that requirement during scoping.

Prepare for IT review