Strategy, design and engineering in one team. Six ways we plug in.
iOS and Android, end to end — the same team from first flow to App Store.
Good fit if you need a v1 in stores, or your live app has outgrown its first build.
See the Northwind app
Northwind
Internal software that replaces the spreadsheet sprawl with one source of truth.
Good fit if your operations live in six spreadsheets and every report takes a full day.
Book a workflow teardown
Meridian
What to automate and what to keep human, built with evals rather than vibes.
Good fit if you know AI belongs in your product, but not where.
See Vaaho.ai in the wild
Vaaho.ai
Marketing sites that load instantly and web apps that carry real traffic.
Good fit if your site is the first thing buyers see, and it’s thinner than the product behind it.
Get a read on your site
Lumen
Identity and interface from one system, holding from pitch deck to settings screen.
Good fit if the deck, the product and the website each look like three different companies.
Ask to see our brand work
Cedar
We connect the tools you already pay for and automate everything between them.
Good fit if someone spends every Friday moving data between tools by hand.
Book an automation audit
Daypost
The baseline
The team you meet on the first call is the team that builds.
Working software from week one, shown every Friday.
Code, design files and IP are yours from day one.
Priced by scope, not by the hour. Changes are quoted first.
Ways to plug in
Most projects start here
A defined product, shipped end to end for a fixed quote.
For products in motion
A standing design and engineering squad inside your company.
Before a big decision
A senior look at your product, codebase or AI plans, in writing.
Client words
Ultrabasic works like an extension of our own team. The designers who shaped the product also engineered it — and that shows in the quality of what shipped.
Peter Lawrence
Founder, Northwind
FAQ
Yes — about half our work starts that way. Week one is an audit: what’s there, what’s risky, what to keep.
You do, from day one. Everything lives in repositories and accounts under your name.
One call a week, plus quick answers when a decision blocks the build.
It usually does. Changes are priced and agreed in writing before we build them.
That’s what the advisory sprint is for: one to two weeks, and a report you keep either way.
Tell us where you are — we’ll tell you honestly if we’re the right team for it.
Step 1 of 2
Where are you headed?
Step 2 of 2
On what kind of timeline?
Your brief
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