01 Product & engineering
Mobile and web applications, from the first prototype through to something released and maintained. We prefer to own a product end to end rather than hand a codebase over a wall.
Application studio · Wyoming, USA
Slate Foundry is a studio that builds its own products and operates them — design, engineering, release, and everything that comes after the first version ships. We are the ones still holding it a year later, which is what makes the early decisions worth arguing about.
Mobile and web applications, from the first prototype through to something released and maintained. We prefer to own a product end to end rather than hand a codebase over a wall.
Getting a finished thing in front of the people it was made for — store presence, creative, paid acquisition, and the attribution wiring underneath. An app nobody finds is an unfinished app.
Generative models put to work inside products and production pipelines, where they shorten a real process. We are more interested in what ships than in what demos.
Identity, typography and interface design carried through with enough discipline that the brand and the product read as the same object rather than two teams' work.
Get a working thing into the world early, then spend the real effort on the finishing — the part users actually feel. A rough shape shipped beats a polished plan.
A product and its marketing fail together. We keep both in one team so nobody gets to blame the other, and so what we promise is what we built.
We would rather know a campaign is not working than report that it is. Attribution is wired before spend starts, and the read is the read.
Slate Foundry LLC is a Wyoming limited liability company formed in 2026. We are small by intention: the people deciding what a product should be are the same people building it and answering for it once it is out.
Our first applications are in development. We pick them the same way each time — a problem we have had ourselves, in a category where the existing options are tolerable rather than good. That is a narrow filter, and it is meant to be.