Application development studio
Modern applications,
built to ship.
LastLap designs and builds modern software — web apps, mobile apps, and AI-powered products, shipped end to end by a small, senior team.
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Products designed and shipped
Web + iOS
Platforms we build for
AI-native
AI built in where it counts, not bolted on
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Small senior team, no bench
Selected work
Live products we've designed and built.
A few of the things we've shipped recently — each one designed, built, and launched by our team.
GatherMind
AI-powered property inventory — photograph, identify, and value the contents of any property in minutes.
Visit gathermind.net →
Receipt Tree
An iOS app that scans and categorizes receipts with AI — snap a photo, get clean expense data.
Visit receipttree.com →
Harbor
An AI website, app, and game builder — describe your idea in plain English and publish it.
Visit harbor.it.com →
FittyBitty
Tell it your goal and equipment — it builds your week and tracks nutrition, hydration, and steps automatically.
Visit fittybitty.com →
What we build
Full-lifecycle software, built by people who ship.
Product design
Turning a rough idea into a clear, buildable plan — UX, data model, and architecture worked out before a line of code ships.
Web & mobile apps
Full-stack web apps and native iOS apps, built on modern, maintainable foundations your team can actually own.
AI-native features
LLM-powered features designed for production — evaluation, guardrails, and cost control from day one, not bolted on after.
Ongoing support
We stay on after launch — monitoring, iteration, and a roadmap, not a handoff and a goodbye.
Product & startup advisory
Before you build the wrong thing.
Most product failures aren't engineering failures. They're decisions made early, on thin evidence, that nobody wants to reopen once there's code. A working prototype is the easiest way to skip that thinking — it looks like the right answer long before anyone has checked that it solves the problem.
The job is getting that decision right while it's still cheap to change, and being straight with you about what the evidence actually supports.
“It seemed like I was always asking you to do the impossible for one incident or another, and you delivered — every time!”
What to build, and what to cut
Most roadmaps are a list of everything nobody wanted to say no to. The work is deciding what actually moves the business, then defending that list when it gets uncomfortable.
Zero to one, without a wasted year
Scoping a first version that proves something real — small enough to ship, honest enough that a result means what you think it means.
Fractional product leadership
For teams with good engineers and no one owning the product. Strategy, roadmap, and the unglamorous work of getting a company to agree on what it's building.
AI where it earns its place
Shipped AI features that removed real work, not demos. Just as often the answer is that a model is the expensive way to solve something a form would fix.
What that's built on
Software people depend on in an emergency
Crisis-communications platforms adopted nationwide by the US Coast Guard and the major oil and gas operators, and used by the US Army and ExxonMobil. One of them was founded, grown, and sold — and it replaced the incumbent it was built to compete with. Deployed alongside Unified Command during Deepwater Horizon.
Products that hold up under diligence
Product strategy for a B2B SaaS platform run end to end — roadmap, architecture, pricing — with delivery tied to retention and acquisition readiness rather than release notes. AI features that cut manual effort in the workflows they touched by more than 40%.
Decisions that show up in revenue
eCommerce platforms rebuilt against the client's own analytics, tripling online sales. Strategic coaching for a company north of $10M, and agile practice put into teams that had been shipping on instinct.
PIER Systems · Jetty Communications Solutions · ADx Healthcare · AkitaBox · Vendovi Partners
Start with the problem, not the proposal.
Tell us what you're trying to decide — what to build, whether to build it, or why the last attempt stalled. If we're not the right fit, we'll say so and point you somewhere better.
- A first conversation, not a pitch deck
- Engagements from a single working session upward
- An honest read, including when the answer is don't build it
Want to build it yourself?
Harbor is our AI app builder — describe what you want in plain English and publish it, without standing up a server, auth, or a database first. Built because we got tired of doing that for every small idea.
The Lab
Coming soonExpertise in exchange for equity.
Early-stage companies need people they cannot yet afford. The Lab opens the door to experts who want in at that stage — contributing their craft to startups they believe in, and owning a piece of what they help build rather than sending an invoice.
We're building it now. If you'd want a place in it — from either side — tell us and you'll hear from us first.
For operators who want in early
The designer, the go-to-market lead, the data person who has seen it go wrong before. Contribute the work you're already the person to call for, at the stage where it changes the outcome.
For founders who can't hire it yet
Senior help before there's a budget for senior help — the gap that sinks more early companies than any technical problem does.
Defined, not a handshake
A real scope and real terms, agreed up front. Not a vague advisor title in exchange for occasional attention.
Be first through the door.
Experts and founders both — we're gathering names now.
How we work
A disciplined process, not a black box.
Discover
We start with the problem, not the tech stack. A short, structured discovery produces a scoped plan with a real estimate.
Design
Architecture, data model, and UX worked out together — reviewed with you before a line of production code is written.
Build
Senior-led, AI-accelerated delivery in weekly increments. You see working software every week, not a demo every quarter.
Ship
Launch is the start, not the finish. We instrument, monitor, and stay accountable after the handoff.
How we operate
Small team. Senior work. No surprises.
No account managers relaying to an offshore bench, no black-box status updates. You work directly with the people writing the code.
Senior-led, always
Every engagement is led by senior product and engineering experience — no bait-and-switch to a junior bench.
AI-accelerated, human-reviewed
We use AI tooling to move fast, and disciplined review to make sure fast doesn't mean fragile.
Security-minded by default
Least-privilege access and auditable data handling are table stakes in everything we ship.
Transparent delivery
Weekly progress, a shared backlog, honest status. You'll never wonder where things stand.
Make the last lap count.
Tell us what you're trying to ship — or what's broken — and we'll come back with an honest read and a next step.
Start a project
Tell us what you're trying to ship.
A short conversation is usually enough to tell whether we're the right fit. Share what you're building — or what's broken — and we'll come back with an honest read.
- Response within one business day
- Discovery scoped in days, not months
- No obligation, no hard sell