01 / The idea

Software shapedaround how you work.

Focused software that removes friction and fits the way you operate.

01

Automate

Remove repetitive work.

02

Build

Create the tool your operation needs.

03

Connect

Make your existing tools work together.

02 / The challengeBusiness transformation mapFriction → fit → impact

Scroll: friction → fit → impact

The friction

The fit

The impact

01

Repetitive workRepetitive
work

Routine tasks consume hours and rely on constant follow-up.

02

Disconnected toolsDisconnected
tools

Important information is spread across tools that do not work together.

03

Software that doesn’t fitSoftware that
doesn’t fit

Your team adapts its process to the tool instead of the other way around.

Keyway StudioSoftware built around the way you work

One focused system, shaped around your operation.

01

Save timeSave
time

Replace repetitive steps with workflows that run reliably.

02

Work as oneWork as
one

Connect your tools, information, and people in one clear process.

03

Grow with confidenceGrow with
confidence

Build on a stable foundation that can evolve with your business.

03 / How we work

A clear path from operational problem to working software

From what slows you downto software built around your business.

We study the problem, define the right response, and build with you — clearly, visibly, and step by step.

01 Start with a Fit Call

A no-cost conversation to understand the friction and confirm whether Keyway is the right fit.

02 Define the right solution

When important decisions remain, Project Definition starts at US$3,500. We resolve the workflow, scope, technical approach, risks, and delivery plan before anyone commits to a build.

03 Build in controlled phases

When the workflow is already sufficiently defined, we may move directly from the Fit Call to a fixed build phase. Focused workflow automation starts at US$7,600.

04 Launch with confidence

We deploy, document, and support software your business can understand and own.

04 / What we build

Three ways we
make work simpler.

Focused software that removes repetitive work, fits your operation, and connects the systems your business already uses.

Swipe through the three approaches →

01

Automation

Remove repetitive work

Turn manual steps, recurring updates, and routine follow-up into workflows that run reliably.

Replace repeated data entry, approvals, reminders, and follow-up with reliable workflows that give your team valuable time back.

  • Reduce repeated data entry
  • Automate approvals and reminders
  • Give your team back valuable time
02

Custom tools

Build the tool your business needs

Create focused internal software around your process — without forcing your team into a generic platform.

Give your team a focused internal tool shaped around its workflow and ready to evolve with the business.

  • Shaped around your workflow
  • Simple for your team to use
  • Ready to evolve with your business
03

Connections

Make your tools work together

Connect the systems and information your business already uses so work moves without unnecessary handoffs.

Connect existing platforms, keep information in sync, and create one reliable source of truth without unnecessary handoffs.

  • Connect existing platforms
  • Keep information in sync
  • Create one reliable source of truth

05 / Selected work

Systems we builtaround the work.Not the other way around.

A selection of systems, workflows, and tools we’ve designed and built around real operational needs through our own product development and operational experience.

01 / 07 systems built

PROJECT OPERATIONS

Configurable Project Operations

Instead of forcing every studio into the same project template, this environment adapts to its stages, team structure, client information, files, specifications, and financial settings.

Teams work from an operating model that reflects their practice instead of adapting their practice to generic software.

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PROJECT OPERATIONS

Configurable Project Operations

The friction

Project structure and responsibility become unclear when operational information is divided between generic tools, documents, and conventions that only experienced team members understand.

The fit

We created a configurable project environment around the way a studio actually sets up, navigates, and runs its work.

The impact

Each project follows a shared structure while preserving the stages, categories, responsibilities, and connected records the studio needs.

What was built

  • Custom project stages, categories, and working structure
  • Assigned clients and internal team members
  • Connected onboarding, files, specifications, presentations, and finance

Technical depth

Swift · SwiftUI · TypeScript · Firebase Firestore · Cloud Functions

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02 / 07 systems built

STUDIO TEMPLATES

Reusable Workflow Templates

Reusable templates let a studio carry proven project structures, boards, questionnaires, briefs, tax settings, and document configurations into new work.

Studios can standardize their strongest processes while still adapting each project to its specific needs.

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STUDIO TEMPLATES

Reusable Workflow Templates

The friction

New projects repeatedly require the same setup, even when the studio has already established a process that works. Manual recreation wastes time and introduces small inconsistencies.

The fit

We designed a template system that duplicates nested project structures and supporting assets in the background while making progress visible.

The impact

A tested operating pattern can become the starting point for a new project without rebuilding every board, brief, record, and setting.

What was built

  • Reusable studio and project setup
  • Duplication of boards and nested project content
  • Background copying of supporting records and assets with progress states

Technical depth

Swift · SwiftUI · TypeScript · Firebase Cloud Functions · Firestore · Cloud Storage

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03 / 07 systems built

CLIENT ONBOARDING

Client Discovery

A structured discovery workflow keeps client goals, decisions, questionnaires, briefs, and project context together before design work begins.

Teams begin design with a clearer shared understanding of the client, the brief, and the decisions already made.

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CLIENT ONBOARDING

Client Discovery

The friction

The earliest and most consequential project knowledge often arrives through meetings, messages, PDFs, and disconnected notes, then becomes difficult to recover when decisions are made later.

The fit

We connected reusable questionnaires, briefs, topic-based responses, and project records in one discovery workflow.

The impact

Client context remains available throughout the project instead of being reduced to meeting memory or isolated documents.

What was built

  • Reusable questionnaires and project briefs
  • Topic-based response organization
  • Discovery material connected to the active project

Technical depth

Swift · SwiftUI · Firebase Firestore · Cloud Storage

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04 / 07 systems built

DOCUMENT WORKFLOW

Project File Workspace

A project-linked file workspace keeps documents and imagery close to the active work they support, with preview, import, organization, and reuse built in.

Teams spend less time moving between file storage and the project context needed to understand each document.

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DOCUMENT WORKFLOW

Project File Workspace

The friction

Project files become difficult to act on when they live in a separate file tool without the decisions, products, boards, or records that give them meaning.

The fit

We integrated document import, organization, preview, renaming, and reuse directly into the project environment.

The impact

Files can move into project records and visual boards without losing their relationship to the work.

What was built

  • Configurable file categories with upload, rename, preview, and deletion
  • Drag-and-drop, file picker, camera, and document-scan import
  • Images and PDF pages placed directly onto visual boards

Technical depth

Swift · SwiftUI · UIKit · Quick Look · VisionKit · Firebase Firestore · Cloud Storage

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05 / 07 systems built

CATALOG OPERATIONS

Catalog Administration & Media Workflow

A governed internal workflow turns irregular source inventory into bilingual product records with controlled taxonomy, calculated commercial fields, and managed media.

Catalog quality comes from a repeatable operating model rather than direct database edits and disconnected image handling.

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CATALOG OPERATIONS

Catalog Administration & Media Workflow

The friction

Legacy product data and photography vary too widely to publish directly. Without controlled fields and review, errors in taxonomy, calculations, lifecycle state, and media paths reach the public catalog.

The fit

We developed a multi-step editor and callable backend around private drafts, whitelisted updates, controlled product types, calculated fields, and managed uploads.

The impact

Content, commercial data, media, and lifecycle state can be prepared and reviewed through one governed record workflow before publication.

What was built

  • Multi-step product creation and editing interface
  • Atomic product numbering
  • UUID, SKU, and slug generation
  • Controlled bilingual product taxonomy
  • Server-side update whitelist
  • Calculated public price, savings, gross profit, and margin fields
  • Hero and gallery media upload workflow
  • Archive, restore, preview, and related-item backend operations
  • CSV, Wix-image, Notion, and catalog-enrichment utilities

Technical depth

Next.js · React · TypeScript · Firebase Auth · Firebase Cloud Functions · Firestore transactions · Google Cloud Storage signed URLs · Notion API

Responsive web administration supported by server-side catalog and migration workflows.

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06 / 07 systems built

PARTNER OPERATIONS

Designer Trade Program Workflow

A custom trade-program workflow carries designer applications from business details and review through generated agreements, signature, and active partnership state.

The relationship can be managed as a controlled business process instead of a sequence of forms, emails, and manually edited documents.

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PARTNER OPERATIONS

Designer Trade Program Workflow

The friction

A professional partnership program cannot be managed reliably through a contact form alone. Applicant context, review decisions, agreements, signatures, and access state must remain linked.

The fit

We connected account records, Trade Program applications, administrative review, generated PDFs, signature capture, and partnership state in one workflow.

The impact

Each application has a traceable path from submission through review and agreement to its current partnership state.

What was built

  • Account and Trade Program application interface
  • Business-profile and name-card submission
  • Live admin review queue
  • Pending, approved, rejected, and revoked states
  • Server-side admin authorization for status changes
  • Personalized Traditional Chinese agreement generation
  • Time-limited owner and admin contract access
  • PNG and JPEG signature validation
  • PDF signature embedding
  • Signed-contract timestamps and partnership state

Technical depth

Next.js · React · TypeScript · Firebase Auth · Firestore · Firebase Cloud Functions · Cloud Storage · pdf-lib

Responsive account and admin workflow with server-generated agreements and custom signature handling.

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07 / 07 systems built

INVENTORY COORDINATION

Temporary Hold & Availability Workflow

A transaction-backed hold workflow lets eligible users reserve scarce catalog items for a limited time, with conflict checks, project context, release, and scheduled expiry.

Temporary commitments are represented consistently without turning informal interest into an indefinite or ambiguous reservation.

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INVENTORY COORDINATION

Temporary Hold & Availability Workflow

The friction

One-off objects can be promised twice when temporary interest exists only in private messages and is not reflected in the availability state seen by other users.

The fit

We implemented transactional callable functions and scheduled expiry around hold metadata, eligibility limits, project mirrors, conflict rejection, release, and restoration.

The impact

A bounded hold becomes visible in both catalog availability and the user’s project context, with explicit paths for rejection, manual release, and automatic expiry.

What was built

  • Firestore transaction and active-hold conflict check
  • Project ownership validation
  • Account-type validation
  • Ten-total active-hold limit
  • Three-per-product-type limit
  • One-hour expiry metadata
  • Public on-hold availability state
  • Project hold mirror records
  • Manual release callable
  • Scheduled expiry sweep

Technical depth

TypeScript · Firebase Auth · Firebase Cloud Functions · Firestore transactions · Cloud Scheduler · Next.js cache revalidation

Responsive product and project UI backed by transactional Functions and scheduled expiry logic.

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01 / 04 systems built

NATIVE VISUAL WORKSPACE

Visual Project Workspace

Visual presentations once assembled across separate files and applications now live in a project-linked canvas where products, references, drawings, and final boards stay connected.

Design decisions remain traceable from first reference to final presentation, while teams spend less time transferring work between disconnected tools.

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NATIVE VISUAL WORKSPACE

Visual Project Workspace

The friction

Design teams need to move quickly between product references, imagery, layout decisions, and presentation output. When each part lives in a different application, context is lost and the same material is repeatedly rebuilt.

The fit

We designed a native visual workspace around the project itself, combining multi-board composition, drawing, precise layout tools, product records, and reusable assets.

The impact

A board can move from early composition to client-ready presentation without separating the visual decision from the products, files, and project information behind it.

What was built

  • Multi-board presentations with reusable layouts and templates
  • Layers, guides, snapping, precise transforms, drawing, and image tools
  • Project products and files placed directly into the composition

Technical depth

Swift · SwiftUI · UIKit · PencilKit · Core Graphics · Firebase

Developed within a broader native operations platform for interior-design studios.

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02 / 04 systems built

NATIVE COLLABORATION

Offline Collaboration & Recovery

An offline-capable collaboration architecture preserves native visual work through disconnection, reconnects safely, and makes recovery state understandable.

Connectivity becomes a condition the product can manage rather than a point at which complex work is silently lost.

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NATIVE COLLABORATION

Offline Collaboration & Recovery

The friction

Visual editing cannot simply stop when connectivity fails. Local changes must survive, merge deterministically, and return to a synchronized state without hiding risk from the user.

The fit

We developed an offline-first collaboration layer around local command journaling, deterministic replay, synchronization, presence, history, and recovery tools.

The impact

Edits remain recoverable through interruption, while reconnect and synchronization state stay visible to the person doing the work.

What was built

  • Local command journaling and offline edit preservation
  • Deterministic merge, replay, presence, and reconnect behavior
  • Activity history, comparison, and recovery tooling

Technical depth

Swift · SQLite · Rust · Automerge CRDT · WebSockets · Axum · PostgreSQL · Google Cloud Run

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03 / 04 systems built

OUTPUT & DELIVERY

Board Export Engine

A dedicated rendering workflow turns native visual boards into print-ready PDFs and high-resolution image files without rebuilding the composition elsewhere.

The work created in the visual workspace remains usable beyond it, without a separate reconstruction step.

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OUTPUT & DELIVERY

Board Export Engine

The friction

A board is not complete if it cannot leave the application at the dimensions, quality, scale, and transparency required for review, print, or delivery.

The fit

We built an export engine around the application’s visual model, with controlled rendering for presentation, print, and image output.

The impact

Finished boards can move directly into client review, production, and delivery workflows in useful formats.

What was built

  • PDF, JPEG, PNG, and TIFF output
  • Controls for image quality, scale, transparency, and content bounds
  • Physical board dimensions preserved for print-ready PDFs

Technical depth

Swift · UIKit · Core Graphics · ImageIO · Uniform Type Identifiers

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04 / 04 systems built

IMAGE PREPARATION

Image Cutout Workflow

An on-device cutout tool lets designers isolate products and references before placing them into visual compositions.

Designers can prepare cleaner visual assets without interrupting the project workflow or creating another disconnected file version.

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IMAGE PREPARATION

Image Cutout Workflow

The friction

Product photographs often need background removal or cleanup before they can support a convincing board, forcing a detour through separate editing software.

The fit

We embedded an image-cutout workflow inside the product and visual workspace so preparation happens where the asset will be used.

The impact

A product image can be isolated, reviewed, and reused in a composition without leaving the application.

What was built

  • Foreground masking for product-form and canvas images
  • On-device processing with an earlier-system fallback model
  • Transparent PNG output and the ability to restore the original image

Technical depth

Swift · Apple Vision · Core ML · DeepLabV3 · Core Image · UIKit

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01 / 08 systems built

PRODUCT DATA

Product Sourcing Library

A reusable product library gives teams one place to capture imagery, dimensions, materials, pricing, availability, vendors, and supporting documents — then carry that knowledge into active projects.

Product knowledge becomes a shared studio asset instead of disappearing inside individual projects or personal files.

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PRODUCT DATA

Product Sourcing Library

The friction

Sourcing knowledge accumulates across vendor websites, screenshots, spreadsheets, messages, and personal notes. Even when a useful product has already been found, the next project often starts the search again.

The fit

We structured product sourcing as a reusable operational library, with searchable records, commercial and technical detail, media, vendor context, and links into project work.

The impact

A product is researched once, remains reviewable, and can move directly into specifications and visual boards without recreating its record.

What was built

  • Structured product records with search and category navigation
  • Media, commercial details, technical specifications, and vendor context
  • Direct handoff into project specifications and visual boards

Technical depth

Swift · SwiftUI · Firebase Firestore · Cloud Storage · SDWebImage

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02 / 08 systems built

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

Design Specifications

Product schedules connect every design selection to the quantities, pricing, approvals, procurement states, issues, and presentations required to deliver it.

Design intent stays connected to the operational work required to price, approve, procure, and deliver it.

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DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

Design Specifications

The friction

A product selected for its design value still needs quantities, commercial detail, approval, procurement, and issue tracking. Visual presentation alone cannot carry that operational responsibility.

The fit

We built project-linked specifications that turn product selections into structured schedules with snapshots, status, pricing, and connections to proposals and boards.

The impact

The same selection can be understood as a design decision, a commercial item, and a delivery responsibility without creating disconnected copies.

What was built

  • Project-specific product schedules and specification snapshots
  • Pricing, approval, procurement, and issue states
  • Links between product records, proposals, and visual boards

Technical depth

Swift · SwiftUI · TypeScript · Firestore · Cloud Functions · Zod

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03 / 08 systems built

FF&E COORDINATION

Procurement Status Control

A cross-project-stage control view makes the pricing, approval, procurement, and issue status of every selected product visible in one place.

Attention is directed to the products that need action, while status remains connected to the underlying project record.

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FF&E COORDINATION

Procurement Status Control

The friction

Once products move beyond selection, their status changes across pricing, approval, ordering, delivery, and issue resolution. Separate trackers quickly become incomplete or outdated.

The fit

We added a status-control layer across project specification records, designed around the stages teams already need to monitor.

The impact

Teams can review and update item progress from one operational view instead of reconciling a second procurement tracker.

What was built

  • Operational filters across specification records
  • Direct access to connected schedules and product details
  • Granular status updates for individual project items

Technical depth

Swift · SwiftUI · Firestore collection-group queries · TypeScript · Cloud Functions

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04 / 08 systems built

BROWSER-TO-NATIVE WORKFLOW

AI Product Capture & Review

A browser extension and AI-assisted review workflow turn a product webpage into a structured draft that a person can verify inside the native application.

Teams avoid repetitive re-entry while keeping a human decision between automated extraction and trusted product data.

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BROWSER-TO-NATIVE WORKFLOW

AI Product Capture & Review

The friction

Useful product information is distributed across page text, metadata, galleries, variants, documents, and vendor details. Capturing it field by field is slow, but importing it without review is unreliable.

The fit

We connected browser capture, authenticated Firebase processing, AI-assisted classification, temporary drafts, media selection, and a native review interface.

The impact

A webpage arrives as normalized product data and selected media, ready for human correction and approval before it enters the catalog.

What was built

  • Manifest V3 Chrome extension
  • Authenticated extension popup
  • Existing-user sign-in and sign-out
  • User, team, role, and subscription validation
  • Server-side authorization verification
  • User-initiated active-page capture
  • Dynamically injected page collector
  • Visible product-page text cleanup
  • Product-focused page-section extraction
  • Metadata and canonical URL extraction
  • JSON-LD Product extraction
  • Inline product-related JSON and script evidence
  • Variant and option discovery
  • Candidate image discovery and ranking
  • PDF and document discovery and ranking
  • Page language, hostname, title, and timestamp capture
  • Bounded structured evidence payload
  • Firebase callable submission
  • Schema-constrained AI extraction
  • Mapping against the Schedun product taxonomy
  • Field normalization
  • Warning and evidence tracking
  • Temporary team-scoped product drafts
  • Schedun deep-link generation
  • Native deep-link validation
  • Draft loading into the native product form
  • Imported image preparation
  • Imported document preparation
  • Human review before final save

Technical depth

Chrome Manifest V3 · JavaScript · Vite · Firebase Authentication · Firebase Cloud Functions · Firestore · Schema-constrained AI output · SwiftUI · Native deep linking

Chrome browser capture connected to a serverless AI classification workflow and a native iPad and Mac product-review experience.

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05 / 08 systems built

PROJECT SOURCING

Product-to-Project Workflow

One connected action can turn a reusable library product into both a project specification and an item ready for visual composition.

Product information moves from research into delivery without duplicate entry or loss of connection.

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PROJECT SOURCING

Product-to-Project Workflow

The friction

Products chosen during sourcing are often entered again in project schedules and then recreated once more in visual presentations, producing disconnected versions of the same decision.

The fit

We linked the sourcing library, project specifications, and visual workspace through a shared product-to-project workflow.

The impact

A reusable source record can become a project-specific specification and a board item while retaining its underlying product context.

What was built

  • Product selection from the studio library
  • Project-linked specification snapshots with currency handling
  • Placement of the same product on a project board

Technical depth

Swift · SwiftUI · TypeScript · Zod · Firebase Cloud Functions · Firestore

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06 / 08 systems built

VISUAL REFERENCE

Inspiration Library

A visual-reference library preserves room, style, color, source, and project relevance so collected inspiration remains useful after the moment it was found.

Inspiration becomes durable project knowledge rather than an unstructured archive of images.

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VISUAL REFERENCE

Inspiration Library

The friction

Reference imagery quickly loses value when its source, reason for collection, and relationship to a project disappear into folders or saved links.

The fit

We structured inspiration as a searchable library with categories, attribution, source context, and links into visual project work.

The impact

References can be found, understood, and reused without separating the image from its original context.

What was built

  • Searchable and categorized reference imagery
  • Source, credit, and descriptive context
  • Direct reuse from the visual project workspace

Technical depth

Swift · SwiftUI · Firebase Firestore · Cloud Storage · SDWebImage

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07 / 08 systems built

SERVICE SOURCING

Service & Contractor Library

A reusable service and contractor library keeps trade details, pricing, notes, imagery, and documents ready to carry into project planning.

Knowledge about trusted services and trades becomes available across projects instead of being repeatedly reconstructed.

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SERVICE SOURCING

Service & Contractor Library

The friction

Studios repeatedly enter the same contractor and service information, while useful notes and supporting documents remain attached to individual projects or personal records.

The fit

We created structured, reusable records for trades, contractors, prices, measures, imagery, notes, and documents.

The impact

Common service information can be reviewed once and introduced into new project planning without rebuilding the record.

What was built

  • Categorized service browsing and search
  • Contractor, unit-price, measurement, URL, note, image, and document fields
  • Selection of library services for project planning records

Technical depth

Swift · SwiftUI · Firebase Firestore · Cloud Storage

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08 / 08 systems built

PUBLIC CATALOG

Digital Product Catalog

An image-led public catalog turns a large collection of one-off objects into structured paths for browsing, searching, researching, and discovering related inventory.

Product information and imagery remain discoverable from first exploration through detailed research without flattening the individuality of each object.

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PUBLIC CATALOG

Digital Product Catalog

The friction

Unique objects resist uniform cataloging: names, materials, eras, photography, and availability vary, making a large inventory difficult to explore and difficult for search engines to understand.

The fit

We built a bilingual catalog around controlled taxonomy, responsive product presentation, deterministic multi-field search, related-item logic, and localized structured metadata.

The impact

Visitors can move from a broad category or specific search intent into a detailed product record, then continue through relevant inventory.

What was built

  • Localized aggregate, category, type, and item routes
  • Cursor-paginated public catalog API
  • English and Traditional Chinese product content
  • Deterministic multi-field catalog search
  • Weighted related-item recomputation
  • Desktop and mobile product grids
  • Desktop and mobile media galleries
  • Localized metadata, sitemap, hreflang, and Product JSON-LD
  • Availability and inquiry entry points

Technical depth

Next.js · React · TypeScript · Firebase Cloud Functions · Firestore · Cloud Storage · Next.js Metadata APIs

Responsive bilingual web catalog backed by serverless catalog APIs.

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01 / 04 systems built

PROJECT FINANCE

Proposal Workflow

A project-linked proposal workflow turns real products, services, terms, taxes, and payment stages into controlled, numbered commercial documents.

Commercial scope and project delivery remain part of one traceable workflow, reducing the need to reconcile separate documents by hand.

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PROJECT FINANCE

Proposal Workflow

The friction

When scope, selections, terms, attachments, and approvals are spread across documents, teams lose track of which version is current and what the client has actually approved.

The fit

We built proposal creation into the project workflow, with atomic numbering, linked line items, controlled document states, terms, taxes, attachments, and payment schedules.

The impact

Teams can move a proposal from draft to approval without losing the project decisions, commercial terms, or supporting records behind it.

What was built

  • Atomic proposal numbering and connected project line items
  • Draft, sent, approved, declined, invoiced, and archived states
  • Terms, attachments, taxes, payment schedules, and audit metadata

Technical depth

Swift · SwiftUI · TypeScript · Firebase Cloud Functions · Firestore

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02 / 04 systems built

DRAFT INVOICING

Proposal-to-Invoice Conversion

Once a proposal is approved, a guarded server workflow can turn it into a linked, atomically numbered draft invoice without reconstructing the commercial scope.

Teams can begin billing from the approved commercial record rather than rebuilding it by hand.

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DRAFT INVOICING

Proposal-to-Invoice Conversion

The friction

Billing often begins by manually re-entering approved proposal information, creating an avoidable opportunity for omissions, duplicate work, and inconsistent records.

The fit

We built a server-side conversion workflow that validates proposal state, carries eligible project and payment information forward, and creates the invoice number atomically.

The impact

An approved proposal becomes a connected draft invoice while preserving the project items and payment context behind it.

What was built

  • Approval-state validation before conversion
  • Atomic invoice numbering and record creation
  • Transfer of linked items and eligible payment data

Technical depth

TypeScript · Firebase Cloud Functions · Firestore transactions · decimal.js

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PAYMENT PLANNING

Staged Payment Schedules

Proposal-linked deposits and milestones keep percentage-based or fixed payment requests attached to the commercial scope they support.

Clients and project teams share a clearer view of payment expectations from the point of commercial approval.

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PAYMENT PLANNING

Staged Payment Schedules

The friction

When deposits and milestone payments are tracked separately from a proposal, dates, percentages, requested amounts, and remaining balances become harder to verify.

The fit

We incorporated staged payment schedules directly into project financial documents, supporting both percentage-based and fixed requests.

The impact

Payment stages, dates, amounts, and balances remain connected to the approved proposal before invoicing begins.

What was built

  • Deposits and staged payment milestones
  • Percentage, fixed-amount, due-date, and balance calculations
  • Payment schedules kept with the source proposal

Technical depth

Swift · SwiftUI · TypeScript · Firebase Cloud Functions · Firestore · decimal.js

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04 / 04 systems built

PAYMENT TRACKING

Payment Records

Structured project payment records use server-side recalculation to keep paid totals, remaining balances, and settlement state consistent.

Project teams can review payment progress without relying on separately maintained totals.

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PAYMENT TRACKING

Payment Records

The friction

Financial records lose credibility when totals and balances depend on someone updating several calculated values manually after every payment.

The fit

We designed payment recording around authoritative entries and server-side recalculation of the resulting financial state.

The impact

Each payment updates the paid total, remaining balance, and settlement state through one controlled workflow.

What was built

  • Payment records linked to financial documents
  • Recalculated totals and outstanding balance
  • Unpaid, partial, paid, and overdue states

Technical depth

Swift · SwiftUI · TypeScript · Firebase Cloud Functions · Firestore · decimal.js

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NATIVE APPLICATION

Native iPad & Mac Application Shell

A large-screen native application gives complex project work the touch-first behavior of iPad and the precision of a desktop workflow through Mac Catalyst.

Teams can perform detailed operational work in an environment designed for the devices and interaction modes they actually use.

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NATIVE APPLICATION

Native iPad & Mac Application Shell

The friction

Dense operational and visual work needs space, precision, multitasking, and platform-native behavior that a stretched phone interface or generic responsive shell cannot provide.

The fit

We designed a native application architecture specifically for large-screen iPad work and desktop use through Mac Catalyst.

The impact

The same project workflows adapt to touch-first and desktop environments while retaining native navigation and interaction patterns.

What was built

  • Adaptive multi-column navigation and project workspaces
  • Native drag and drop, file import, sharing, and window behavior
  • Shared product and project workflows across iPad and Mac Catalyst

Technical depth

Swift · SwiftUI · UIKit · Mac Catalyst · Uniform Type Identifiers · Quick Look

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COLLABORATION INFRASTRUCTURE

Real-Time Sync Engine

A native and server-side synchronization engine coordinates collaborative editing through semantic commands, deterministic state, reconnect behavior, and recovery.

Complex native collaboration rests on explicit state and recovery behavior rather than optimistic real-time updates alone.

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COLLABORATION INFRASTRUCTURE

Real-Time Sync Engine

The friction

Concurrent and offline editing require more than live transport: changes must merge deterministically, survive interruption, replay safely, and remain recoverable over time.

The fit

We developed the collaboration engine across native Swift, a Rust CRDT layer, authenticated WebSockets, and durable PostgreSQL persistence.

The impact

The workspace supports synchronized editing, history, migration, reconnect, and recovery through one coherent architecture.

What was built

  • Native Rust CRDT engine
  • Authenticated WebSocket synchronization
  • Durable command, checkpoint, migration, and recovery layers

Technical depth

Swift · Rust · Automerge CRDT · WebSockets · Axum · PostgreSQL · Google Cloud Run

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APPLICATION INFRASTRUCTURE

Serverless Workflow Backend

A Firebase workflow layer moves critical numbering, state transitions, nested records, file processing, cleanup, and usage accounting out of the interface and into controlled backend operations.

The application can enforce operational rules consistently across devices, users, retries, and background processing.

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APPLICATION INFRASTRUCTURE

Serverless Workflow Backend

The friction

Business rules become fragile when important state changes exist only in client code, where retries, concurrency, permissions, and partial failure are difficult to control.

The fit

We implemented callable workflows, atomic numbering, linked records, storage processing, scheduled cleanup, and usage accounting as server-side responsibilities.

The impact

Critical transitions are validated and executed through structured backend workflows instead of depending on interface behavior alone.

What was built

  • Server-validated workflow transitions
  • Atomic counters and linked record creation
  • Storage processing and hierarchical project data

Technical depth

TypeScript · Firebase Cloud Functions · Firestore · Cloud Storage · Cloud Scheduler

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Configurable Project Operations

Instead of forcing every studio into the same project template, this environment adapts to its stages, team structure, client information, files, specifications, and financial settings.

Teams work from an operating model that reflects their practice instead of adapting their practice to generic software.

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Bring us the workflow, bottleneck, or product idea. We’ll identify the smallest focused system that could make a meaningful difference.

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