The honest stack
People expect a studio to run on exotic tooling. The truth is more boring — and that's deliberate. We use tools that are boring in the best way: predictable, well-documented, and unlikely to vanish next quarter.
What's actually on the desk
- Laravel + MySQL for client work — mature, boring, fast to ship
- Vite + Tailwind for frontends — no runtime surprises
- Git + a staging server — every change reviewed before it touches production
- AI assistants for drafting and review — speed, not decisions
What we deliberately skip
Kubernetes. Microservices. Serverless event meshes. Blockchain anything. Not because they're bad — because none of our clients need them. Every one of those adds operational complexity, and complexity is a cost the client pays forever.
Technology choices are business decisions wearing technical clothes.
The test every tool must pass
Before we adopt anything, we ask one question: if the person who chose this tool leaves the project, can the next person understand it in an afternoon? If the answer is no, it doesn't ship. That single rule has saved our clients more money than any optimization ever has.
