Product & Engineering Studio · San Diego, CA

We design & buildbrands, apps, and storeswith AI — fast.

A San Diego tech studio for founders in fintech, health, e-commerce, SaaS, and fitness. Real products, shipped in weeks — not quarters.

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Fintech·Telehealth·E-commerce·SaaS·Fitness·Wellness·Luxury·Ventures·
Fintech·Telehealth·E-commerce·SaaS·Fitness·Wellness·Luxury·Ventures·
/ What we do

A full studio, powered by AI.

Strategy, brand, design, and engineering under one roof. We use AI end-to-end so serious founders ship in weeks — with polish that reads a decade old.

01

Brand & Design

Identity, positioning, and premium visual systems. The kind of design that closes buyers and investors on first scroll.

02

Web & App Build

Marketing sites, storefronts, membership platforms, and full custom apps. Real checkout — Apple Pay, PayPal, Venmo, Zelle, crypto — real auth, real infra.

03

AI Automation

AI features and internal automations baked into your product: assistants, anti-fraud, lifecycle ops, content, and back-office glue that actually ships.

04

Growth Engineering

Analytics, lifecycle email, SEO foundation, A/B, and conversion instrumentation. Measured, iterated, and compounded — every week.

05

Brand Kits

Complete print brand kits — logo suite, business cards, flyers, door hangers, scannable QR codes, and print-ready files any shop can use. One flat fee, no hourly billing, fast turnaround.

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/ Live Product

Real apps.
In your hand.

Drag a device. Tilt it. Scroll. Every screen below is a product we designed, engineered, and shipped — checkout flows with real payments, membership platforms, and AI features that actually run in production.

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Balance
$24,318.04
▲ +$1,204.50 this week
Recent
Stripe Payout+$3,402
Apple-$129
Whole Foods-$84
Plaid Direct+$1,240
Ledger
Personal Finance · AI
Client · REYES
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Checkout
Order Summary
Vault 01 — Tee$84.00
Embroidered Cap$42.00
ShippingFree
Total$126.00
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E-commerce · Crypto · Apple Pay
Client · CandyRX
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Avery K.
Founding Member
Inner Circle
$49 / mo
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Client · RebuiltByP
/ Selected work

Real products, live in the wild.

Fintech, telehealth, SaaS, luxury commerce, wellness, ventures, and fitness. Every card links to a live product we designed and built with AI-native tooling — end to end, fast.

/ Flagship case study

Distressed Property Investments

Bay Area · Property preservation & loss mitigation

A full-stack rebrand and product build for a 20-year Bay Area field-services operator. Website, AI intake, branded email systems, and a complete print kit — shipped as one cohesive brand.

3 wks
Live in
9 counties
Coverage
End-to-end
System
Visit live site
What we delivered
  • Full custom website with interactive 9-county coverage map
  • Before/after property sliders
  • Local SEO with dedicated service pages
  • AI lead-qualifying assistant with photo uploads
  • Smart intake form
  • Automated branded welcome + lead-summary email system
  • Custom business email on their own domain
  • Complete print brand kit
/ More live builds

Fintech, telehealth, luxury commerce, wellness, ventures, and fitness — every card links to a live product.

/ Brand kit

The print system, matched to the site.

Business cards, door hangers, and field flyers — one design language, one QR flow back to the live site. From the DPI system.

Distressed Property Investments business card front designed by Phantom Era
Business Card — Front
Distressed Property Investments business card back designed by Phantom Era
Business Card — Back
Distressed Property Investments door hanger designed by Phantom Era
Door Hanger
Distressed Property Investments one-page field flyer designed by Phantom Era
One-Page Flyer
/ Pricing · Local Service Businesses

Flat pricing. No surprises.

For local service and trade businesses ready to look legit online and stop losing leads. Fixed scope, fixed price, live in a week.

Note: product companies and funded startups (fintech, telehealth, SaaS, luxury e-commerce) are custom engagements — request a quote.

Brand Kit
$695
flat · delivered in 5 business days

Look legitimate in the field.

  • Logo suite in every format you'll need (full color, reverse/white for dark backgrounds, mono black, icon-only, transparent PNG)
  • Business card front and back
  • Door hanger
  • One-page flyer
  • Custom QR codes that route to your website
  • Print-ready PDFs (CMYK, full bleed) any print shop accepts as-is
  • 2 rounds of revisions
  • Delivered in 5 business days

Fee credited toward a website build.

Most Popular
Website
$1,997
flat · live in 7 days

A website that actually captures leads.

  • Custom multi-page website up to 6 pages designed for your business, never a template
  • Fully responsive on phone, tablet and desktop
  • AI assistant that qualifies visitors and asks the right questions 24/7
  • Smart intake form — only name, phone and email required so you never lose a lead
  • Automatic branded welcome email sent to every lead
  • Full lead summary emailed to you with everything they submitted, readable in 20 seconds
  • Local SEO with dedicated service pages, schema markup, Google-ready
  • Business email on your own domain
  • Domain connection and SSL certificate
  • Photo galleries and before/after sliders
  • Live in 7 days
  • 2 rounds of revisions
  • 30 days of post-launch support
Care Plan
$199/mo
per month

Keep it fast, secure, and current.

  • Hosting, SSL and domain management
  • Content edits and updates up to 1 hour per month
  • Security monitoring, malware scanning and daily backups
  • Software and dependency updates
  • Uptime monitoring
  • Monthly report covering traffic, leads and performance
  • Priority support with same-day response

No contract. Cancel anytime.

Bundle
Website + Brand Kit — $2,497(save $195)
Custom Work

Custom apps, e-commerce platforms, and fintech builds are scoped individually — from $25,000. Tell us what you're building.

/ For Local Service & Trade

You're losing jobs because your website can't capture a lead.

Contractors, cleaning & janitorial, property preservation, restoration, landscaping, roofing, HVAC, field services — the whole system as one package, live in a week.

ContractorsCleaning & JanitorialProperty PreservationRestorationLandscapingRoofingHVACField Services
See how it works →

Prices in USD for local service & trade businesses in the US. 50% to start, 50% at launch. Custom apps, SaaS, fintech, and premium product builds are quoted separately.

/ FAQ

Answers, up front.

Ten honest answers to what founders and local operators ask before they hire us. If something isn't here, ask us on the contact form — Evan replies personally.

  • Our flat-fee $1,997 website is live in 7 business days from the moment you approve the direction and hand over content. Bigger scopes with custom apps, e-commerce, or integrations run 3–6 weeks depending on complexity. We give you a firm timeline in your quote — not a range that slides.
/ The studio

Small studio, serious craft.

Built by Evan Valdes and a hand-picked team of designers and engineers in San Diego. You work directly with the people building your product — no account managers, no offshore layers, no handoffs.

Products Shipped
60+
Verticals
8
Avg. Time to Live
4 wks
Founder Rating
5.0
/ Start a project

Let's build something real.

Tell us what you're building. Evan reads every inquiry personally and replies within 24 hours with scope, timeline, and a flat quote.

Studio
888 Prospect Street, Suite 200
La Jolla, CA 92037
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