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2 openingS: Q1 / Q4 2025

Engineer your

big idea into a

$

100

m business

in Your Company

Get full-featured, V-1 or V-Next app designed and developed in 39 weekly releases, with the option to do it all at cost—trading 50% of the cash now for twice the equity in the future.

Early

Innovation

Partner

10x

If you solve a problem or create an experience that's 10x better than anything else out there, then you can be sure of one thing: people would be genuinely upset if your business suddenly disappeared—because you're just that important to them. When you reach this threshold, you know you have achieved product-market fit and are ready to scale.

Logic

LTV

We design user-interfaces that are so engaging, user retention measurably increases and customer lifetime value (LTV1) climbs to 3x CAC2 or more.
1LTV = (Average Revenue Per Customer per Time Period) × (Gross Margin %) × (Time Retained)
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We engineer features to create network-effects so distribution measurably increases and customer acquisition costs (CAC2) drop to at least 1/3 LTV1
2CAC = Total Customer Acquisition Costs ÷ Total Number of New Customers Acquired

CAC

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1. Intuition
You have a clear vision for your company’s next move, but your teams are stretched thin, and resources are limited. You need a focused, efficient way to validate your intuition. The goal? Deliver more value to your customers and drive revenue growth, achieving an LTV that's 3x your CAC, so you can scale profitably to a 10-100x ROI.
2. Requirements
We plan how your idea maps to an optimal sequence of first features, so when your product is released, you’ll be able to measure how well each feature performs on its own, and how well everything works together. The outcome? You'll know which features increase LTV and which ones lower CAC. Any that don't, get cut.
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3. Interface
You know a good interface when you see it; you know a great one when you feel it. And we believe what's good for the user is good for the business. So we make both a priority. We make sure your product experience is desirable (raising LTV) at the same time as making development more efficient (lowering fully-loaded CAC) by creating consistent and reusable design patterns.
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4. Experience
We craft intuitive experiences that appeal to user-motivations, create user-path optionality, and guide users forward with every successful step. Once your app is live, we clear unanticipated obstacles to further lower CAC and create moments of delight that lift LTV higher.
5. Accessibility
You know something is well-designed if it’s obvious how to use it, and it just works. We make every touchpoint easy to interact with to prevent user errors (lowering CAC) and to increase conversions (raising LTV).
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6. Interactions
We design interactions between the user and the interface to increase engagement, which raises LTV. Ignoring interaction design will increase churn and limit your LTV potential.
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7. Network Effects
We architect features to first have personal value and then have social value so the product becomes more valuable as the number of people using it increases. The more your viral co-efficient goes up, the more your CAC goes down.
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8. Engineering
We organize and label work for the engineering team to include the business model impact, so everyone knows the expected value of each feature on LTV/CAC before a line of code is written, and hopefully long after the V1 is complete.
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9. Delivery
We ship software in releases with semantic versioning which mirrors the format of the product requirements. With this pairing, you can optimize and measure LTV/CAC impact to the ideal 3:1 ratio because you know'll which product investments yield the greatest returns.
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10. Scaling
Now that your V1 has shipped, ideas are pouring in from every direction. To keep momentum strong without losing focus, we craft prioritized feature roadmaps that align user needs with business goals, so you can move forward with clarity and confidence after the hand-off.

Process

Intuition leads, data guides, focus wins.

Outcome

Web, eCommerce, blockchain, and mobile apps from scratch to scale
V0.9
Under NDA
If we succeed in helping a publicly-traded eCommerce company level up a multi-million dollar app into one people can’t imagine living without, it will unlock hundreds of millions in new revenue growth.
In-Progress Q3, 2024 - Q1, 2025
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Dior
Euronext:CDI.PA
To improve conversion on Dior.com, we analyzed the UI+UX of the buying experience, delivered a strategic A/B testing roadmap, and redesigned the Dior checkout experience for desktop and mobile. Our work is being incorporated into a site-wide redesign, led by Dior HQ in Paris with support from AKQA.
Delivered Q1/2024
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CFX
Series A
To help CFX demonstrate the speed and efficiency of its novel stablecoin protocol to investors and partners, we designed a mobile wallet that transforms U.S. dollar deposits into stablecoins pegged to select fiat currencies, enabling instant on-ramps and off-ramps across multiple country corridors.
Delivered Q4/2023
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Hagerty
NYSE:HGTY
To help Hagerty keep collectible vehicle insurance policies in force when vehicles are sold, we designed a multi-sided online auction marketplace. Now, potential buyers can bid on classic automobiles, owners and dealers can sell at market prices, and Hagerty reduces policy churn by brokering deals.
Delivered 2023
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Highnote
Series Seed
We built the Highnote mobile app to give medical professionals at every level an easy way to help each other on the go. With Highnote, hospital administrators can facilitate real-time problem solving and reduce persistent staff turnover.
Launched 5/2022
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Tomorrow
Ethos
Series A
To help people prepare for risk in minutes, we built the Tomorrow app so families could make future decisions together and instantly create ready-to-sign legal docs in all 50 states.
Acquired 1/2022
The next app we design could be yoursThe next app we design could be yours
10x App
Get a 10x app designed and developed in 39 weeks for half the cash now and a little bit of equity in the future.
1 Opening Q1 2025
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