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Independent product studio · Apple platforms + web

Turning ideas into products people love.

Orion helps founders and small teams move from a difficult idea to a clear, beautifully built product—without losing the human reason it should exist.

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Software for humanity

The best software feels obvious after someone has done the hard work.

We take on that hard work: understanding the user, choosing the product boundary, shaping a coherent interface, and engineering the details that make the whole thing trustworthy.

Selected product work

Seven products. Seven very different problems.

The common thread is not an industry. It is a point of view: explain the complexity, protect the user, and make the next action feel clear.

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Health & wellnessAvailable on the App Store

Mend

A private, day-by-day companion for hip-replacement preparation and recovery.

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How Orion helps

From the unclear beginning to the useful release.

Bring us a new idea, a workflow nobody has made humane yet, or an existing product ready for a sharper chapter.

01

Find the product

Clarify the audience, the problem worth solving, the smallest credible release, and what has to be learned next.

Product strategy · Research · Scope
02

Shape the experience

Turn complex workflows into an interface that feels calm, specific, and unmistakably yours.

UX · UI systems · Prototyping
03

Build it properly

Engineer the product with native platform behavior, accessible interactions, privacy-minded architecture, and a clean release path.

iOS · iPadOS · macOS · Web
04

Stay for the next version

Use real product behavior, research, and feedback to make the software clearer and more useful over time.

Iteration · Performance · Growth
The process

Close collaboration, fewer mysteries.

You always know what decision is being made, what evidence supports it, and what happens next.

  1. 01

    Listen

    We start with the people, the constraint, and the decision your product must make easier.

  2. 02

    Frame

    We define the evidence, scope, architecture, and product story before detail starts to multiply.

  3. 03

    Make

    Design and engineering move together in small, reviewable slices.

  4. 04

    Ship & learn

    Release is a checkpoint. We validate the experience and choose the next useful move.

Research in the open

Show the question. Show the tradeoff.

Product decisions get more useful when the method and limitation are visible. Orion publishes the safe, substantive research behind selected products.

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01
Cliproom · Repository study · July 2026

Why automatic polish starts with structured capture

A flattened movie is an architectural dead end for the signature experience. Screen, camera, microphone, system audio, cursor events, and timeline markers need a shared clock but separate source tracks.

02
Cliproom · Repository study · July 2026

One preview plan for editing and export

A continuous primary story track plus bounded overlay, text, caption, and audio lanes covers the core workflow without copying a full broadcast editor.

03
Mend · Source review · July 2026

Patient education without pretending to be a clinician

The safest useful product is a timeline and logbook: show what the care team already asked the person to do, make progress visible, and keep escalation language direct.

04
Vox · June–July 2026

A speech backend is a product choice, not just a model choice

Apple system speech is the dependable baseline: it is available through AVFoundation, uses installed device voices, and avoids a model bundle or metered backend. Bundled neural speech can improve the voice palette but introduces runtime, size, performance, and licensing review.

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Vox · July 5, 2026

Quote the cost before synthesis

Character-based pricing is easier to quote exactly. A content-and-voice hash can also make an already synthesized passage replay without a second charge.

From product story to production

A good product can start as a half-formed thought.

Tell us what feels important, what is difficult today, and what you want people to be able to do. We can find the shape together.

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