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The 9-Screen Rule
Every app we take on gets its nine hardest screens designed and pressure-tested first. Here’s why the ninth screen is where products are won.
The Studio
FirstLight is a remote-first design & engineering studio, working worldwide. Websites, product design, mobile apps, web applications, desktop software and AI integration — one senior team, accountable for all of it, from first sketch to first light.
Deliberately small: two projects at a time, senior hands only, fixed price in writing before kickoff. The people on your first call ship your product.
50+PRODUCTS SHIPPED
20+INDUSTRIES
98%ON-TIME DELIVERY
What we do
Brand & Marketing Websites
Flagship sites and storefronts measured by enquiries, not applause. Fast, ranked, obvious.
Product Design & UX
Research, flows and hi-fi prototypes on real content. Doubt removed before it costs money.
Custom Web Applications
SaaS, dashboards and portals — auth, billing, APIs, admin — documented and owned by you.
iOS & Android Apps
Native-feel mobile products — offline-capable, store-ready, instrumented from day one.
Desktop Applications
Signed, auto-updating software that earns a permanent place in the dock.
AI Integration & Automation
Copilots, RAG on your documents, agents that run workflows — benchmarked before rollout.
Testimonials
“FirstLight took a vague idea and returned a product our seed investors called bankable. On time, on budget — twice now.”
“The new site tripled qualified enquiries in a quarter. It doesn’t just look premium — it sells.”
“Decisions in hours, not weeks. The first agency we’ve rehired, and the only one we recommend without caveats.”
“Async across timezones and we never felt it — Friday demos, a staging link that was always live, replies inside the hour.”
“The AI pilot paid for itself in six weeks — tickets resolved without a human jumped from 4% to 31%. Benchmarked before we scaled.”
Clients
ECO+ YACHTSUNIVERSEBONATICALAUNCHFASTTNGBRIXWAVEROOFINGERHOLBEACHEVITERAAURÉA
Process
The path to launch
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Discover WEEK 1
We interrogate the goal, not just the brief. You leave with a scoped proposal, fixed price and week-by-week timeline.
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Design WEEKS 1–3
Wireframes to high-fidelity UI on real content. You click through a prototype before a line of code is written.
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Build WEEKS 2–8
Clean documented code on a live staging link. Friday demos keep scope honest.
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Launch LAUNCH WEEK
Performance, accessibility, technical SEO and a choreographed deploy. We stay on the dashboards for 72 hours.
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Support & scale ONGOING
30 days of included fixes, then retainers for iteration and growth.
Stack & tools
DESIGN
FigmaDesign systemsProtopieMotion
FRONTEND
TypeScriptReactNext.jsGSAP
MOBILE & DESKTOP
React NativeFlutterTauriElectron
AI
OpenAIAnthropicGeminiLangChainpgvector
BACKEND
NodePostgreSQLEdge functionsDocker
FRIDAY DEMOSLIVE STAGINGSHARED BOARDREPLIES < 24HFIXED QUOTE
Work
FULL ARCHIVE WITH EVERY INNER PAGE LIVES IN THE EDITORIAL EDITION.
Journal
₦→$
Fixed price is a feature
Hourly billing rewards being slow. We price the outcome instead — and what that forces us to get right up front.
AI
AI that earns its place
Our two-week pilot model: one measurable use-case, behind a feature flag, benchmarked. If the numbers don’t hold, we say so.
Aa
Design systems cost less than opinions
Every “quick change” without tokens is a negotiation. A small, honest system ends the debate and halves the build time.
Contact
REMOTE-FIRST — WORKING WORLDWIDE
- UNITED STATES & CANADA4H+ LIVE OVERLAP DAILY
- UK & EUROPEFULL WORKING-DAY OVERLAP
- EVERYWHERE ELSEASYNC + LOOM DEMOS · REPLIES < 24H
EMAILzinsunathaniel5@gmail.com
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STATUSBOOKING SEPTEMBER 2026