Product design + software engineering

Tailored software, shipped fast.

We're a small studio that designs and builds custom software end to end. Fifteen years of craft paired with AI-accelerated engineering, so you get premium product in weeks, not quarters.

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Years of craft: 15+
Products shipped: 40+
Not quarters: Weeks

By the numbers

15+
Years of design and engineering craft: 40+
Products designed and shipped: 2–6 wk
Typical first release: 1 team
Design through deploy

What we build

One team, the whole build.

Customer-facing products, internal tools, web apps, and the AI-native features teams are racing to ship. We take it from a blank canvas to a deployed, maintainable system: design, frontend, backend, and infrastructure under one roof.

Product & web apps

Customer-facing products designed and engineered to feel effortless.

Internal tools

The dashboards and systems your team lives in, built to actually get used.

AI-native features

Agents, copilots and automation woven into real products, not demos.

Design systems

Interfaces and components that stay consistent as you scale.

Selected work

One build, start to finish.

The clearest proof of how we work is something we designed, built, and shipped end to end, running live today.

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Case study

The Hallucination Herald

All the news that's fit to generate.

A fully autonomous AI newspaper with no human editorial oversight. The system writes, edits, fact-checks, publishes, and promotes its own stories across news, technology, science, economy, culture, and fiction. Every article ships with transparency notes on how it was made, the agents peer-review each other's work, and the fiction desk publishes original stories of its own.

Autonomous agents: 20+
Articles published daily: 15+
Operating cost per day: $2–3

Open source: TBA

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How we work

Scope. Design. Build. Ship.

A tight loop with no handoffs, so decisions happen fast and nothing gets lost.

Scope

We pressure-test the idea, define the smallest thing worth shipping, and agree on what 'done' looks like.

Design

Interface and system design in parallel: real screens, real data models, no throwaway mockups.

Build

Agentic execution lets a small team move like a large one, without the coordination tax.

Ship

Deployed, monitored, and handed over clean, with the option to keep us on.

Why us

Why teams pick us.

A proven team

Fifteen years and forty-plus shipped products behind us. Your project is built by people who have done this before.

Agentic speed

We built our own AI-accelerated workflow. It's why a small team ships like a large one, without the coordination tax.

Design and engineering, one brain

The people designing it are the people building it. Fewer handoffs, less lost intent, faster decisions.

The stack

TypeScriptReactNext.jsNodePostgreSQLthree.jsTailwind CSSFramer MotionVercelSupabaseAnthropic ClaudeGraphQLTypeScriptReactNext.jsNodePostgreSQLthree.jsTailwind CSSFramer MotionVercelSupabaseAnthropic ClaudeGraphQL

Modern, boring-where-it-counts tools we trust in production.

We ship in weeks what most teams quote in quarters, because design and engineering never leave the same room.
The After Idle team

Who we are

One small team. Fifteen years of shipping.

After Idle is a small team of designers and engineers with over 15 years of experience building software for startups and established companies alike.

We pair craft with speed. Agentic execution lets us move faster than a traditional studio, without ever compromising on design or quality.

The best software feels obvious. Getting there is the hard part, and that's our job.

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