Studio
Strategy and tooling for those building better ways to live, work, and play.
A boutique design and technology studio working with architects, engineers, builders, and fabricators to build the tooling they need to build a better built environment.
02 Studio
Tools aren’t precious. They’re useful. They get used, scuffed, they age, they break. Then we make new ones.
That’s the practice. Alongside architecture, engineering, and product teams, the work keeps asking what tool it needs — and we build it. Sometimes what’s needed is something large and complex. Just as often, it’s a throwaway, made-for-purpose jig. Both fill the same purpose — the improvement of our craft.
03 How we work
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Strategy & Research
Market research, product strategy, roadmapping. We help teams figure out what’s worth building before they build it.
02
Workflow Design
Product design, UX/UI, service design. The shape of how the work gets done — for the user, and for the team behind them.
03
Software Development
Web platforms, internal tools, agentic systems. The product, after the strategy is settled.
04 ●Thesis
The built environment runs on data nobody indexed.
AI is the first tool capable of metabolizing that mess at scale. The opportunity is not to flatten the industry into one deterministic schema. It is to work with the mess: the formats, exceptions, vocabularies, and local practices that reveal how the industry actually operates.
i.
Mess as signal
The built environment is full of partial, inconsistent, highly specific data. Its value is in the variation, not in pretending every practice resolves to the same model.
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Agents over interfaces
The screen is not the work. We build agents that hold the workflow end to end and surface only what the human needs to see.
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Contextual structure
We build the minimum structure needed for a specific task, team, or project to move. It can adapt because the work, constraints, and vocabulary change.
05 Products
Norma
Your studio's product memory. Norma joins the living schedule or spec book, keeps product decisions sourced and current, and turns each project into private, cited knowledge the next project can reuse.
Architecture Studio
A fully agentic design studio built on Claude. Specification, research, and documentation handled end to end. Open-source, distributed via the Claude Code marketplace.
GIS Application
Parcel-level price and zoning intelligence for Maldonado, Uruguay. 67,000+ urban and rural padrones with TONE zoning overlays, manzana price references, and one-click envelope analysis. Built for Estudio Local.
Canoa
A deprecated vector browser-based canvas for designing with real product data. Canoa proved product intelligence matters, and exposed why pre-ingesting the whole product universe into an app is unrealistic.
06 Articles
Claude Code Cheat Sheet for Architects and Designers
A quick reference for using Claude with skills for architecture and design — everything you need to get productive fast.
Introducing Norma
Norma is the logical next step after Canoa and Architecture Studio: a product and materials specialist that turns a studio's messy project work into private, cited, reusable memory.
Architecture Studio at Three Months: Your Project Gets a Memory
179 stars, 39 skills, seven releases — and the biggest change isn't a skill at all. Architecture Studio v1.2 gives every project a dossier and a decision log, as plain files in the project folder.
Architecture Studio's First Month: 100+ Stars on GitHub
Architecture Studio hit 100 GitHub stars in its first month. Here's what the numbers say about how architects are adopting AI tools — and what surprised us.
Distributing Skills to Teams
How to install and distribute Claude skills — via the terminal or Claude Desktop, for yourself or an entire team.