ClearStone / The Studio
The done-for-you arm of the practice. A small senior team that designs and builds internal tools, automations, and AI-powered products, using the same instruments we teach. Fast because of the leverage. Careful because of the craft.
Fixed scopes. Weekly working software. A limited number of engagements at a time.
Capabilities
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Dashboards, portals, and admin systems that replace brittle spreadsheets and swivel-chair work.
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Intake, routing, drafting, reconciliation, and follow-up systems that run without supervision.
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Extraction, review, and generation pipelines for contracts, filings, reports, and correspondence.
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Client-facing tools and paid products that turn your expertise into software revenue.
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Proof, in real software, that an idea deserves investment. Built in weeks, priced to make the decision cheap.
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Half-built tools, abandoned automations, and vibe-coded prototypes brought up to production standard.
Engagement models
Every engagement is fixed in scope and price before it begins. No hourly meters, no drifting timelines.
Fixed scope / 2 to 3 weeks
From $15,000
A working system that proves the idea: real interface, real data, real behavior. The cheapest way to know whether the full build is worth commissioning.
Fixed scope / 4 to 8 weeks
From $45,000
A production system, built end to end: designed, constructed, tested, deployed, and handed over with the training to run it. Fixed scope, fixed price, weekly working software.
Ongoing / Monthly
From $7,500per month
A standing build partner for organizations that ship continuously. A steady cadence of automations, tools, and improvements, with priority access to the studio.
The engagement
A short, sharp discovery. What exists, what should exist, and what it is worth. If the build is not worth doing, we say so here.
Fixed scope, fixed price, named risks. You know exactly what you are commissioning before anything is built.
Working software every week, not status decks. You watch the system take shape and steer while steering is cheap.
Documentation, training, and a clean transfer of the keys. Every engagement ends with your team able to hold what we built.
How the Studio runs
The Studio takes a limited number of engagements at a time, and the people who scope your work are the people who build it.
The Studio runs on Claude Code and the modern AI toolchain. That is why fixed scopes measured in weeks are possible at all.
Everything is documented and handed over, and we will train your team to extend it. We do not sell maintenance hostages.
Some commissions should not be built. Telling you that early is part of the service, not a lost sale.
Client names and projects are not marketing material. References are available in private, on request.
Commissions
Write a few sentences about your operation and the thing you wish it had. We reply within two business days, and the first conversation costs nothing but the half hour.
Limited engagements per quarter. Scoping is free and blunt.