Development & design studios

Arcanys

Cebu City, Philippines (operations & ~all delivery); Swiss holding/leadership entity in Lausanne

custom software development, dedicated development teams, staff augmentation, project rescue, QA

Pricing

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Atomic Object

Grand Rapids, MI, USA

Custom software design & development: AI software development, new product development, product enhancement and modernization; web, mobile, IoT, desktop, cloud; healthcare, financial services, education, insurance focus

Pricing

published guidance on own site: typical projects 3-18+ months, budgets $50,000 to $1M+

BairesDev

San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA (Mountain View per CB Insights; founded in Buenos Aires)

Nearshore staff augmentation, dedicated teams, custom software development, QA/testing, AI & data science, mobile, UX/UI design — 'top 1% of LatAm tech talent' positioning

Pricing

not publicly available (engagement-model pages published, no rates)

Big Human

New York, NY, USA (51 E 12th St, 9th Fl)

Digital/product strategy, UX/UI and web design, branding (strategy, positioning, logo, copywriting), web/mobile/full-stack development, Web3, CMS, Apple Vision Pro design, growth marketing (SEO, content, paid)

Pricing

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Bop Design

San Diego, CA, USA (401 W A Street, Suite 200)

B2B website design (UI/UX, WordPress development), content marketing (blog, email, social, SEO — and GEO listed as a service), branding (logo, guidelines, collateral)

WordPress

Pricing

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Cheesecake Labs

Florianópolis, Brazil

mobile & web app development, UI/UX design, product definition, support & maintenance, web3/loyalty builds

Pricing

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Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

strategy, design, custom software engineering, AI-first digital transformation

Pricing

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Clay

San Francisco, CA, USA (300 Broadway, Suite 23)

Brand strategy and visual identity, UX/UI and digital product design, design systems, marketing websites (strategy/design/development/CMS), motion/3D content, development consulting

Pricing

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DockYard

Boston, MA, USA origin; now fully remote/distributed

Elixir/Phoenix custom software engineering, product strategy & discovery, product design & delivery, engineering consulting & staffing, native mobile; maintains LiveView Native and Beacon CMS open-source projects

Pricing

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Dualboot Partners

Charlotte, NC, USA

Product strategy, UX/UI design, web and mobile development, DevOps, QA; launched DB90 AI development ecosystem (planning→deployment) January 2026

Pricing

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Fantasy

New York, NY, USA (80 Franklin St per directory listings; multi-city historically)

AI strategy & execution, product innovation, brand & identity; AI-powered content strategy, custom pre-trained models, NLP applications, AI-enabled user insights, creative R&D

Pricing

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Focus Lab

Savannah, GA, USA origin; remote-first global team

Brand strategy, verbal/visual identity, web design and UI, brand activation, brand workshops; early-stage startup branding via sub-brand Odi (odibrand.agency)

Pricing

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GeekyAnts

Bengaluru, India

web & mobile product engineering — React, React Native, Flutter, Angular, Vue, Node, Svelte; design; AI-powered product engineering

Pricing

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Boulder, CO, USA

AI-enabled product engineering, platform engineering/DevOps/SRE, intelligent quality engineering, nearshore staff augmentation; 'Gorilla Logic Construct' modular AI-agent delivery workflows (claims 30-80% engineering-effort reduction)

Pricing

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HappyFunCorp

Brooklyn, NY, USA

Web and mobile app engineering, product development for startups and enterprises

Pricing

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Humaan

Perth, WA, Australia

Digital strategy, UX research, interaction/UI design, design systems, websites, ecommerce, web apps, mobile apps, performance/CRO, hosting & support — '100% in-house and work end-to-end'

Pricing

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Instrument

Portland, OR, USA

Brand, marketing, and product design/build; integrated teams ('designers who code, developers who design')

Pricing

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Koombea

Barranquilla, Colombia (founding city & main delivery center); US commercial HQ registered in Miami, FL

web & mobile app development, product design, MVP builds, HiTech/fintech/retail verticals

Pricing

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Koto

London, UK (US-serving studios in Los Angeles and New York)

Brand strategy, verbal and visual identity, wordmark/typography (own foundry CcType), brand systems for tech platforms; related ventures OFF.Brand newsletter and Seasoned

Pricing

not on own site; third-party roundups cite ~$60k to $150k+ per identity program (unverified third-party estimates)

MetaLab

Victoria, BC, Canada (remote-first, globally distributed)

Product design, interface design, product development — 'design, build, and ship' digital products for startups and established brands; strong AI-native product work per recent industry coverage

Pricing

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Monks

Founded and long headquartered in Hilversum, Netherlands; corporate HQ now London, UK under S4Capital

Real-Time Brands, Media Acceleration (content+media+measurement in one system), Marketing Orchestration ('collapse your content supply chain into one AI-powered system'), AI Transformation; brand, social, media, data, experience, studio, platforms, commerce services; Monks.Flow AI platform ('always-on agents for last-mile intelligence')

Pricing

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Motto

New York, NY, USA

Brand strategy, brand creation and transformation, identity, positioning; founders keynote/advise on vision and leadership (book: 'Rare Breed')

Pricing

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Net Solutions

Chandigarh, India

custom software development, mobile apps, MVP development, product design, digital transformation

Pricing

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Qubika

Austin, TX, USA (Montevideo, Uruguay roots — Moove IT founded there 2005)

AI services (AccelerateAI, Agentic Factory, Data Foundation), product design studio, data engineering (Databricks Gold Tier, 250+ certified engineers claimed), app development, cloud/SRE/DevOps, QA, embedded, blockchain

Pricing

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Ramotion

San Francisco, CA, USA

Brand strategy and identity, rebranding, web design, UI/UX and app design, design systems, web app development — startups through Fortune 500 tech

Pricing

not on own site; third-party comparisons cite $12k-$150k+ projects, $25k-$50k minimums, ~$100-149/hr (unverified third-party estimates)

Rangle.io

Toronto, ON, Canada

Agentic development and AI-powered software, LLM features (shopping assistants, document analysis), enterprise design systems, headless commerce & CMS (Sanity, Contentful, Shopify), agentic infrastructure ('Airbender' proprietary control layer), digital transformation

Shopify · Contentful · Sanity

Pricing

not publicly available; engagement model: 'functional proofs of concept in 2-5 days and production applications in 4-8 weeks'

Reaktor

Helsinki, Finland

Digital innovation, custom software development for mission-critical systems, strategic design, productized software; industries: aerospace & aviation, defence & security, healthcare, industrial, gaming/entertainment, retail, public sector, finance

Pricing

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Test Double

Columbus/Westerville, OH, USA origin; fully remote across US and Canada since founding

Embedded senior consulting: software delivery acceleration, product management & strategy, legacy modernization, pragmatic AI, DevOps/infrastructure, Rails upgrades, technical assessments and recruiting support

Pricing

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Theodo

Paris, France

Custom web/mobile platform development, AI modernisation of legacy systems ('up to 3x faster'), data and cloud, cybersecurity, experience design, tech ops; Lean Tech methodology (Toyota lean + agile)

Pricing

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thoughtbot

Boston, MA, USA (founded there 2003; now fully distributed, US + UK phone lines)

Ruby on Rails / Hotwire development, AI/ML, mobile development, maintenance; UX/UI/product design, design systems, design sprints ('Shaping Sprints'); MVP builds, product management, accessibility; team augmentation and fractional leadership

Pricing

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ustwo

London, UK (founded in Shoreditch)

Digital product design and development with cross-functional teams; human-centred design, people-first AI, 'Play Thinking' game-design principles, behavioural science for engagement, full-stack design and build

Pricing

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San Diego, CA, USA (remote-first)

Website design/development for B2B SaaS and AI companies, design systems, SEO/AEO strategy, CRO, technical migrations, ongoing 'website product team' retainers; Next.js/Sanity/Storyblok/Webflow stack

Webflow · WordPress · Contentful · Sanity

Pricing

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Work & Co

Brooklyn (Dumbo), NY, USA

Digital product design and development: websites, e-commerce platforms, mobile apps, AI tools/chatbots, retail/kiosk experiences for enterprise and nonprofit clients

Pricing

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Z1 Digital Studio

Seville, Spain

Product design, software engineering, multidisciplinary product teams taking ideas from inception to launch; design systems, scalable architectures

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