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№ 002  An independent software studio·Est. MMXXVI

Software shouldn’t know more about your family than you do.

Privacy-first apps for families. Privacy-first AI for businesses. One studio, one conviction.

Studio
Lyre & Lens
Conviction
Your data stays yours.
01The conviction

Most software companies make money by knowing things about you. We don’t. Every product we ship starts from the same constraint: your data belongs to you, full stop. That rules out a lot of business models. It also rules out a lot of compromises.

No accounts. Unless the product genuinely needs one.Your data isn’t our product. We don’t sell it, train on it, or monetize knowing things about you.You decide what leaves. No silent sync, no shadow servers, no data going somewhere you didn’t agree to.
Currently shippingStatus
  • Oriana

    Contraction tracker. A private companion for the hours between "is this it?" and the hospital. Nothing leaves the phone — not the timing, not the night, not a single contraction.

    In beta
  • GentleThrive

    Baby tracker. Feeding logs, sleep, growth charts, and a full BLW food tracker with allergen flags — all on the household's device. No accounts. No sync. No ads.

    In beta
  • Ember

    Hot flash tracker. A menopause symptom log for the body that's yours to know. Local-only, written for the woman holding the phone — not the market she's sitting inside of.

    Coming soon
Current apps are early examples · the studio is not the list
In the workshopStatus
  • Vantage

    Product visibility and accountability. AI-assisted. Makes the invisible work of product development legible to everyone on the team — without piping the team's data through anyone else's model.

    In development
  • isproddown

    Engineering hiring, reimagined. Senior incident simulations for hiring teams. AI generates a realistic scenario tailored to your stack — fake alerts, fake MRs, real pressure. You get structured signal on how candidates actually think.

    Free · MVP
  • This Meeting.

    Meeting cost, made visible. Anonymous meeting cost calculator. Enter the room size and seniority, watch the number climb. The figure that makes people reconsider the recurring Thursday stand-up. thismeetingshouldhavebeenanemail.fyi

    Free · MVP
One studio, one conviction · B2B work, same constraints
04How we build

Four rules we’d be embarrassed to break.

i.

Local-first.

Data lives on your device unless there's a genuine reason it can't. When the work has to leave, we say so plainly and we minimize what goes. No silent sync. No "just in case" servers.

ii.

Privacy isn't a feature.

It's the constraint everything else is designed inside. Every product we've shipped starts from that constraint — not from a market opportunity bolted onto a privacy claim after the fact.

iii.

No free tiers that make you the product.

We charge for software. That's the deal. No ad-supported version, no "data plan" that pays the bills. The price is the price; what you get is the whole thing.

iv.

Small & intentional.

We'd rather ship one thing that's right than ten things that are fine. One studio, two houses, no growth team. We're here as long as the work is good.

05Work with us

Write to the workshop.

Families with feedback on a Lyre app, businesses with a problem Lens could solve, press — you’re all in the right place. One inbox, read by the person who builds the things.

One inbox, read by the person who builds the things.