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A boutique product engineering studio

We build the software ambitious teams ship next.

We design and engineer web and mobile applications for founders and product teams who care about craft. Modern stack. AI-native. Production-ready from day one.

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Why Nirvix

Three ways to ship the product you need. Here’s why this one wins.

Most teams have already tried — or are about to try — one of the three obvious paths. We’ve watched each go sideways enough times to build the alternative.

The comparison

01/ 03

vs. The mid-size agency

The senior partner pitched you. Six weeks in, you realize the junior team is doing the work.

Mid-size agencies survive on bait-and-switch staffing. The people who closed the deal aren’t the people writing the code. The layers between you and the work get thicker every month — by the time something’s wrong, four people have to be on a call to make a decision.

The mid-size agency
Nirvix
Senior partner pitches. Junior team builds.
You talk to the person shipping the code. Always.
Account manager between you and the engineer.
Direct line. Decisions in hours, not weeks.
Two weeks of “discovery meetings” before the first commit.
Tight scope on day one. Code by day five.
You’re project #47 in someone’s pipeline.
Boutique focus. Fewer projects, deeper attention.
Half your budget keeps the lights on at an oversized office.
Lean overhead. Your budget builds your product.

vs. Offshore and low-cost shops

The demo worked. Production was a different story.

Cheap dev talent is a race to the bottom — and the bottom is brittle code, no documentation, no accountability, and a team that’s rotated three times by the time the build is “done.” You save money up front and pay it back twice over in rewrites and the next agency rebuilding what the last one shipped.

Offshore / low-cost shops
Nirvix
Code that demos. Falls apart under real load.
Production-grade. Tests, monitoring, performance budgets.
Different engineer every sprint.
One owner from kickoff to handoff.
Cryptic codebase when they leave.
Clean architecture, documented, maintainable by anyone.
Async-only. Answers in 24-hour gaps.
Overlapping hours. Conversations in minutes.
When something breaks, nobody’s accountable.
When something breaks at 11pm, someone cares.

vs. Hiring in-house

You could spend the next quarter hiring. Or you could ship.

Hiring senior engineers is a three-to-six month project before anyone writes a line of your code. Recruiter fees, equity dilution, salary commitment, ramp-up time, the manager you’ll need to manage them. Engagement with a boutique studio cuts the path from “we have an idea” to “it’s in production” by an order of magnitude.

Hiring in-house
Nirvix
3–6 months from job post to first commit.
Start in week one.
Recruiter fees, equity grants, benefits, laptops.
No payroll commitment. Engage per project.
3-month ramp-up before they’re productive.
Senior engineers. Productive from day one.
Need an engineering manager to manage them.
We manage ourselves. You get outcomes.
If it doesn’t work out, firing is painful and slow.
Project ends cleanly when the project ends.

None of these alternatives are wrong for everyone — they’re wrong for the kind of work we take on. Ambitious. Fast. Premium-quality. Where the team that ships matters as much as the thing being shipped.

Trusted to ship in production by teams across

Online Gaming
Healthcare
AI Products
E-Commerce
Events & Media

What we do

Three things. Done at the highest standard.

01

AI-Native Product Builds

End-to-end web applications with AI at their core.

We build production AI features that go beyond chat widgets — recommendation engines, intelligent assistants, agentic workflows, content generation, and RAG-powered search. Claude, OpenAI, custom evals, the full stack.

  • LLM integration (Claude, OpenAI, open-source)
  • Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
  • Agentic workflows and tool use
  • Embeddings, vector search, semantic recommendations
  • Custom evals and guardrails for production AI
02

Web & Mobile Applications

Modern, fast, production-grade.

Full-stack web applications and cross-platform mobile, built in React, Next.js, and Node. We obsess over performance, reliability, and the small details that make software feel premium.

  • Greenfield product builds and MVPs
  • Cross-platform mobile (web + native)
  • Backend and API design
  • Performance, accessibility, and SEO
  • Authentication, payments, and infrastructure
03

Marketing & Product Sites

Where your brand earns its first impression.

High-performance marketing sites, landing pages, and product surfaces. Cinematic where it matters, conversion-focused everywhere else. Built for speed and built to scale.

  • Marketing sites and landing pages
  • Editorial and content-driven sites
  • Conversion optimization and A/B testing
  • CMS integration (Sanity, Payload, headless)
  • Animation, motion, and interaction design

Recent work

A few of the things we’ve built lately.

Case studies are anonymized per client NDA.

01Online Gaming
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Online Gaming

A real-money casino platform for a licensed operator.

End-to-end product engineering for a high-volume, compliance-heavy gaming platform.

02AI Consumer App

AI Consumer App

An AI-powered reading companion that learns what you’ll love.

A consumer web application using LLMs and embeddings to surface book recommendations that actually feel personal.

03Healthcare
Cardiac
Respiratory
Endocrine

Healthcare

A digital health platform with web and native mobile applications.

A multi-surface product for patients and providers, with the reliability that healthcare demands.

04Events & E-Gaming
Berlin·Tokyo·São Paulo·Austin·Seoul

Events & E-Gaming

Cinematic marketing pages for a major e-gaming events brand.

High-energy marketing surfaces built to convert across a global audience.

05E-Commerce / Internal Tools

Order in

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Pick

→

Pack

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Dispatch

Automated routing

E-Commerce / Internal Tools

An internal operations app for a rapid-delivery e-commerce startup.

A purpose-built tool that turned a manual ops workflow into a real product.

How we work

Four steps. No surprises.

01STEP 1/4

Scope

We start with a focused conversation about what you’re building, who it’s for, and what success looks like. Within a week, you’ll have a written scope, a timeline, and a fixed price for the first phase.

02STEP 2/4

Design

We design the product end-to-end — flows, screens, and interactions — before we write production code. You’ll see real designs in a working environment, not slides.

03STEP 3/4

Build

We ship in weekly increments. You’ll see progress every Friday and have the chance to redirect every Monday. No black-box agency work, no end-of-quarter surprises.

04STEP 4/4

Launch

We ship to production with monitoring, error tracking, and the documentation your team will need to run it. Then we stick around for the things you didn’t see coming.

Built with

A modern stack, used deeply.

Frontend

  • React
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind CSS
  • GSAP
  • Three.js

Backend

  • Node.js
  • Express
  • Fastify
  • Postgres
  • Prisma
  • Redis

AI

  • Claude API
  • OpenAI API
  • Embeddings
  • Vector DBs
  • RAG

Infrastructure

  • Vercel
  • AWS
  • Cloudflare
  • Supabase
  • Sanity

Quality

  • Vitest
  • Playwright
  • Sentry
  • CI/CD
  • Perf budgets

The studio

Small by design. Senior by default.

Nirvix is a boutique product engineering studio. Small by design — we keep the team intentionally tight so every project gets senior attention from start to finish. No hand-offs to junior teams. No layers of account managers between you and the people building the product.

We work with founders and product teams who care about craft. The kind of people who notice a 16ms animation jitter, or a misaligned button, or a query that takes 400ms when it should take 40. If that sounds like you, we’ll probably get along.

We work remotely with clients globally and have shipped production software across online gaming, healthcare, AI products, e-commerce, and events. NDAs and discretion are part of how we work.

“We started Nirvix because we wanted to build software the way we always thought it should be built — small team, senior craft, no compromise on quality. Every project we take on is one we’d be proud to put our name on.”

— Founder, Nirvix

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