Independent studio — interfaces & intelligence

Ship the interface.Then ship theintelligence.

We build production React and TypeScript front-ends, Shopify Hydrogen storefronts, and AI prototypes that survive contact with real users — agent harnesses, tool loops and evals, built end to end.

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React/TypeScript/Next.js/Shopify Hydrogen/Remix/Oxygen/Storefront API/Tailwind/Vite/Node/Claude API/MCP/Evals/Core Web Vitals/
01 — Capabilities

Three things, done properly.

No managers, no hand-off gap. You work directly with the person writing the code.

01

Frontend engineering

React and TypeScript work that holds up after launch: real component systems, accessible interaction, and performance measured rather than promised.

  • Design systems and component libraries
  • Next.js app-router builds and migrations
  • Core Web Vitals and accessibility audits
  • Pixel-exact handoff from Figma
02

Shopify Hydrogen

Headless storefronts on Hydrogen and Oxygen — built for merchandising teams to run without a developer in the loop for every change.

  • Hydrogen storefronts, Remix routing
  • Storefront API, metaobjects, cart logic
  • Custom apps and checkout extensions
  • Liquid theme to headless migrations
03

AI prototypes & agent harnesses

The part most demos skip: tools, sandboxes, retries and evals around the model, so the thing you showed the board still works next month.

  • Agentic app scaffolding and tool loops
  • MCP servers and tool integrations
  • Eval harnesses and regression suites
  • Streaming, chat and tool-call interfaces
02 — The difference

A demo is a screenshot. A harness is a product.

Most AI prototypes fall over the moment a tool call fails or a prompt drifts. I build the loop around the model — typed tools, a sandbox, retries, and an eval suite that tells you when a change made things worse.

03 — How it runs

Small studio, boring process.

Week 0

Scope

A call, then a written scope with a fixed price and a date. If it does not fit, I say so.

Week 1

Prototype

Something clickable in your hands early — real data, real states, no slideware.

Week 2—4

Build

Daily pushes to a preview URL. You watch it happen in your own repo, not a black box.

Handover

Hand over

Documented code, a walkthrough recording, and two weeks of support included.

04 — Start something

Tell me what you are building.

A short note about the problem is enough to start. You will hear back within one working day, with an honest answer about whether I am the right person for it.

mail@shoeblabs.com