Web platforms
Marketing sites, portals, and dashboards built on a modern stack — strong typography, snappy interactions, and SEO that actually ranks.
Next.jsTailwindRSC
00Studio
A small, opinionated software studio.
We are a tiny team with strong opinions on craft, process, and what is worth building. We partner with founders, agencies, and operating teams to turn rough ideas into production software.
01Capabilities
The full
build stack.
We move across the stack so you don’t have to coordinate four agencies. Discovery, design, engineering, data, and operations under one roof — with seniors on the keyboard, not just the kickoff deck.
- Discovery workshops → clickable prototype → production scope
- Design systems, motion, and accessibility baked in from day one
- Post-launch care: monitoring, on-call, and incremental releases
- Senior engineers on the keyboard from day one — no offshored juniors
- Weekly demos, written changelogs, and one Slack channel per project
14 practice areas — we mix only the lanes your roadmap actually needs.
First reply
< 24h
Median delivery
10 weeks
Production uptime
99.95%
Marketplaces
Two-sided products with real moderation, payments, and search — not a Facebook group with a logo.
StripePostgresMapLibre
Mobile apps
Cross-platform apps shipped to App Store and Play with shared design tokens and push notifications.
ExpoReact Native
AI & automation
LLM-backed assistants, intake copilots, and document understanding — typed JSON in, useful actions out.
OpenAIVercel AIpgvector
Integrations
Connecting CRMs, calendars, billing, mail, and government systems so the team stops copying values between tabs.
WebhooksOAuthCron
Data & search
Pragmatic data models, fast indexes, full-text and vector search, daily syncs — the boring parts done right.
PrismaElasticpgvector
Security & access control
Role-based permissions, audit trails, session hardening, and secrets management so regulated teams can sleep at night.
RBACNextAuthAudit logs
Design systems & brand
Coherent typography, spacing, motion, and dark-mode-ready palettes — plus reusable components so every screen feels like one product.
FigmaTokensMotion
Messaging & notifications
Transactional email, in-app threads, digest jobs, and optional SMS or push — wired to real templates and delivery monitoring.
NodemailerQueuesWebhooks
Privacy & compliance
Data minimisation, retention policies, export/delete flows, and consent-aware tracking so you stay aligned with GDPR-style expectations.
GDPREncryptionExports
Analytics & observability
Event pipelines, funnels, error tracking, and uptime dashboards — know what broke, who felt it, and whether the last deploy helped.
EventsSentryLogs
Cloud & DevOps
Preview environments, database migrations, blue-green deploys, and infra-as-code so releases are boring in the best way.
VercelCI/CDPostgres
Platform engineering
Internal tools, admin consoles, feature flags, and shared libraries that let your product team ship without waiting on a platform team.
Admin UIFlagsSDKs
Performance & Core Web Vitals
Image optimisation, streaming, edge caching, and bundle discipline — fast on 3G, smooth with reduced motion, and measurable in Lighthouse.
RSCCDNLighthouse
02Values
What we care about.
One team, end to end
Same people from the brief to the production deploy. No handoffs, no second-pair maintenance team.
Small on purpose
We stay deliberately small so seniors do the work. We would rather say no than ship someone else’s mediocrity.
Real software, real users
Every project we take is meant to live in production with paying customers, not as a portfolio piece.
Honest pricing
Fixed price for the first phase, time-and-materials only when both sides actually want it.
03Team
Two seniors, one rotating partner.
Deliberately small. Anyone you talk to ships your code.
Founding engineer
Product · Engineering
Architecture, performance, design systems.
Founding designer
Design · Brand
Interaction design, motion, typography.
Specialist partner
Rotating
ML, data, mobile — brought in per engagement.
04Numbers
Small studio. Real receipts.
We are a deliberately small team that ships and operates real software with real users. These numbers update every quarter from production data.
0+
Years shipping
Across 4 industries
0+
Products in production
Web, mobile, and AI
0
Active clients
Long-term partners
0.00%
Uptime SLA
Last 12 months
0h
First reply
Median, business days
0/wk
Deploys / week
Across all clients
0
Languages spoken
Albanian, English, Italian
0%
Repeat-engagement
Year-over-year
05Story
How we got here.
Northlights started as a way to keep doing the work we love at the depth it deserves — not buried under a pile of management overhead. We had spent years inside agencies and venture teams watching ideas die in handoffs, scope creep, and politics.
Today we work with a handful of clients at a time. We do the design, write the code, set up the database, configure the deploy, and stay on for as long as the product is alive. It is an old-school way of running a software studio, and it produces software we are proud of.
- 2022Founded
- 2023First retainer client
- 2024First mobile launch
- 2025Four products in production
- 2026Booking Q3 onwards
Currently
Booking Q3 2026 onwards
We take 2–3 active engagements at a time so juniors don’t end up doing senior work.
Currently booking · Q3 2026 onwards
Have a project worth getting right?
Tell us what you are building. We reply within two business days with honest feedback, a ballpark timeline, and a fixed price for the first phase.