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Sanctuary Computer
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Building thoughtful, human-centric products through an open and transparent approach to timelines and estimates.

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  • Full Stack Apps
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  • Full Stack Apps
  • Product Design & MVPs
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  • Greenfield Innovation
  • Healthcare
  • Internet of Things
  • Lifestyle
  • Sophisticated Websites
  • Staff Augmentation
  • Aida

    Branding, packaging and website for the creative modern food brand Aida.

  • Sun Day

    A participatory tool and digital experience for a sun-powered future: Drawing thousands into a movement for climate action.

  • Alison Roman

    A centralized platform for recipes, newsletters, and editorial storytelling, built for creative independence.

  • Cosmos

    Front-end builds for a fast-changing brand.

  • Light Three

    An embedded partnership powering ethical, minimalist technology

  • Presq

    A bespoke shopping experience for a cutting edge approach to product development and manufacturing.

  • We’re fluent in 15+ programming languages, actively managing fleets of servers.
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Sun Day

500+ events in 49 states organised through sunday.earth (September 21, 2025)

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Alison Roman

Alison Roman moved her newsletter and recipe archive off Substack onto a unified self-hosted home - establishing creative independence at alisoneroman.com.

Labs & Network

Cosmos

$15M Series A co-led by Shine Capital and Matrix Partners, with GV, Accel and Squarespace's Anthony Casalena

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Light Three

TIME Best Inventions 2025 recognition for the Light Phone III

Stripe
Mozilla
Google
Pinterest
Etsy
Hinge
  • Parafin

    A brand system for Parafin, including strategy, visual identity, art direction, and a website.

  • Brooklyn Museum

    A digital platform that connects, contextualizes, and elevates every corner of the museum.

  • Figma Typography

    Web and social design for Figma to announce the launch of the product's new variable fonts feature.

  • Harvey.ai

    Bringing motion, clarity, and adaptability to a fast-moving legal AI brand.

  • Williamstown Theatre Festival

    A digital stage for the next act of an iconic festival.

  • @telier

    Internal project: Everything for a curated workspace exchange program.

Loupe

Our team builds highly performant full stack apps for Web, iOS & Android.

Our work in Full Stack Apps
  • Arena

    Brand, Campaign and Product Design for Arena AI

  • CivLab

    Bringing radical government transparency to life with a data visualization platform designed for accessibility.

  • Thea

    App and website design for Thea, an AI-powered platform that analyzes a user’s voice to detect real-time emotion and delivers music to either deepen the feeling or guide them toward equilibrium.

  • Mac Miller: Swimming

    An website experience to celebrate 5 years of Mac Miller's 2018 album, Swimming.

  • Mill

    Technical architecture and IoT product development revolutionizing the future of food waste.

  • Hinge

    Content migration and feature development for the Hinge marketing site

  • Greenwashing Certified™
    Greenwashing Certified™

    Pt. 1 - Corporate sustainability's shortcomings

  • Survival Theater
    Survival Theater

    Love Island, layoffs, and the end of backstage life

  • Our open source 2021 Profit & Loss
    Our open source 2021 Profit & Loss

    Our meaningful action in DEI, sustainability, charitable giving, and decentralization

  • Youswim

    A fluid ecommerce platform for a radically flexible swimsuit brand.

  • neoNutritions

    A website for neoNutritions and its universe of transformation, drawing from the world's ancient traditions.

  • Magic Leap

    Improving the editor experience with a new CMS for the Magic Leap marketing site.

  • Modern Life

    Brand, art direction, web, and digital product design for Modern Life, an insurance agency for the future.

  • Stripe Apps

    Brand design, art direction, campaign imagery, and product design for a financial infrastructure platform for internet businesses

  • Stripe × Xero

    Helping launch Stripe Apps with a real, working integration between Xero and Stripe.

  • Dancer in motion
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What really stood out was their ability to translate our very ‘non-technical’ ideas into solutions that balanced both function and beauty. They didn’t just execute, they interpreted, refined, and elevated.

Alison Roman
  • Homebound

    Brand and Website for the custom homebuilding company.

  • Baggu Custom

    A website to show and order the variety of ways to customize BAGGU products.

  • Firefly

    An adaptive marketing site for a modern approach to comprehensive healthcare.

  • Pratt School of Architecture

    Website and visual identity for Pratt School of Architecture and its diverse range of programs.

  • Salt & Stone

  • Love enters through the eyes. Our team hails from design, fashion, music and art backgrounds, applying their sophisticated taste to our work.
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  • Lifestyle work preview
    Our Work in Lifestyle

    How we added objective value in less than a sentence but two lines and looks like this.

  • Expansive Brands
    Expansive Brands

    How garden3d centers humanity when building brands.

  • Substantive Sustainability
    Substantive Sustainability

    Pt. 2 - How to build corporate climate programs that are effective and resonant

  • garden3d 2023 Sustainability Report
    garden3d 2023 Sustainability Report

    Reviewing our impact as a growing creative business amid a changing climate.

  • Swell

    A documentation site for self-starting entrepreneurs.

  • WorkMade

    An early-stage financial app for freelancers and independent professionals

  • Gnosis Chain

    Visual identity system for Chain, an Ethereum compatible chain by Gnosis.

  • Air Company

    Content strategy, art direction, campaign imagery, and website design for a company that turns CO2 into a revolutionary line of products.

  • Uniswap

    A unified design system for a seamless onchain experience

  • Our process is lean and nimble, optimized for shipping high grade work quickly, with precision.
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  • Editorial work preview
    Managing is a Maker’s Skill

    How we added objective value in less than a sentence but two lines and looks like this.

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Our engineering team specializes in building software and APIs for connected hardware products.

Our work in Internet of Things
  • Aplós

    A digital design system and e-commerce site for a new kind of non-alcoholic beverage.

  • BBG Ventures

    Branding and website design for a female-led venture fund investing in a new generation of founders.

  • Gnosis

    Inspired by their mission to create decentralized technology for all, we crafted a new brand language for Gnosis that reflects the ethos of the early web.

  • Index

    We designed a digital platform to support marketing and registration for programs produced by and for the creative community.

  • Ronan

    Visual identity and website for the best pizza place in LA.

  • The best results stem from a diversity of perspectives and a tight feedback loop.
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  • Our 2021 Sustainability Report
    Our 2021 Sustainability Report

    Our Review, Reflections, and Goals for the Future

  • Mapping San Francisco's Government
    Mapping San Francisco's Government

    with Michael Adams from CivLab

  • Oh, to Be Known By My Computer!
    Oh, to Be Known By My Computer!

    A pattern for designing intelligent products

  • Mirror

  • Cocoon

    A platform for the business of modern childcare.

  • Geneva

    A website and brand identity for Geneva, a chat app centered around connecting communities wherever they are.

  • Fishbird

    Brand and website for anti-consultancy Fishbird. Fishbird coaches teams and leaders to enable their true potential. We worked with their founding team to build a brand and digital platform that captures the essence of the Fishbird experience. In harmony with Fishbird’s philosophy, the website and communication tools we created ask questions rather than reveal answers.

  • Loupe This

    A custom-built, real-time auction engine and online community for luxury watch enthusiasts and collectors.

Truly, incredible partners. I bring you guys up in every conversation last few days… Really couldn’t ask for anything else.

Harvey
  • Roti — Online Ordering

    A best in class online ordering experience.

  • Tend Patient Onboarding

    A personal, HIPAA-compliant booking experience for a new era of dental care.

  • Light Two

    System architecture and product development for an independent telecom company.

  • Endless West

    A website for Endless West and its 100% molecular whisky Glyph.

  • by Humankind

    A website for a line of plastic-free personal care products.

  • We’re a small team of design-oriented software developers, with a strong understanding of user experience and product.
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  • Le Fleuriste

    Visual identity and website for a botanical creative agency.

  • Mailchimp

    A website for Mailchimp’s internal brand studio showcasing their varied work.

  • Mozilla

    Website for the Mozilla and Firefox brand.

  • Nobel — Women Who Changed Science

    Discover the stories and connections between women who changed science

  • ACLU

    Site for ACLU’s 50 State Blueprint that aimed to reduce the incarceration rate for minor offenses by 50%.

Brooklyn Museum
Nike
Mailchimp
Dropbox
Parsons
Figma
Parafin Logo

Parafin

$100M Series C at a $750M valuation, led by Notable Capital (December 2024)

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Brooklyn Museum

200 years of museum history launched on the bicentennial digital platform

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Figma Typography

Web and social design for Figma's variable-fonts launch - the canonical landing page Figma still hosts at figma.com/typography/variable-fonts.

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Harvey.ai

$11B valuation reached at $200M Series E led by GIC and Sequoia (March 2026)

  • Antfood

    A website for the best audio studio in the world.

  • Buoy

    Design system, website, and art direction for a health assistant where that guides you on your way to well.

  • Colophon

  • IBM Event Design

    A top level IBM Design discipline destination site.

  • Parsons

    Website, strategy and custom typeface for the MPS in communication design.

Sales Rep

Arena

$32M raised across rounds led by Initialized, Goldcrest, Founders Fund, Peter Thiel and Gen. David Petraeus

Entity Graph

CivLab

54 city departments with full budget breakdowns surfaced in the SF Government Graph

Portrait of Mac Miller

Mac Miller: Swimming

5-year anniversary celebration of Swimming, anchored on listentotheuniverse.com

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Mill

Half a ton of greenhouse gas emissions avoided per Mill member household per year

IBM
AT&T
Pratt Institute
ACLU
Harvey
  • Storq

    Visual identity and website for a maternity and motherhood clothing line.

  • IBM Plex

    A website for IBM’s typeface IBM Plex.

  • Google SPAN

    Website and digital signage for the Google’s SP–AN design & technology conference 2017.

  • MIT-IBM

    Visual identity for the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab.

  • Dropbox

    A website for Dropbox’s visual identity.

  • We’re friendly, transparent, communicative and hospitable, as it’s our best relationships that produce the most meaningful work.
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  • OKREAL

    Visual identity and editorial website for a curation of wisdom shared by aspirational women.

  • Coffee Manufactory

    Visual identity and print collateral for Coffee Manufactory.

  • AYR

    An website for a clothing line that designs seasonless essentials for everyday life.

  • Nocta

  • XXXI

    Internal project: Everything for ❶ a mixed-use community space for designers (and others) to exhibit, teach, and explore self-initiated work; ❷ a shared studio space; ❸ a residency for designers; and ❹ an online (and sometimes physical) store.