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Featured · Product Launch
June 18, 2026 · Product

Atelier 2.0: On-Device AI Outfit Recommendations

Our wardrobe-planning app gets a major update. The new on-device CoreML model analyses your closet, your local weather, and your calendar to suggest outfits that actually make sense — without a single byte leaving your phone. We also shipped a redesigned iPad layout, multi-select bulk actions, and a brand-new cost-per-wear dashboard.

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Technology
June 4, 2026 · Engineering

Building a Sub-10ms Audio Engine on iOS

A deep-dive into the audio architecture behind our upcoming meditation app. We discuss the AVFoundation audio thread, our custom DSP pipeline, and the techniques we use to hit consistent sub-10ms latency on the lowest-end supported hardware.

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Research
May 22, 2026 · R&D

Quantising Transformer Models for On-Device Inference

How we reduced a 110MB language model to 7.4MB while preserving 94% of its original accuracy. The techniques, the trade-offs, and why we believe on-device intelligence is the future of consumer software.

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Product
May 8, 2026 · Pawprint

Pawprint 2.4 Adds Multi-Pet Profiles & Vet Sharing

Our pet health app now supports up to twelve pets per household, multi-user family sharing, and a new vet-sharing flow that generates a clean PDF of your pet's complete medical history. All encrypted, all local-first.

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Design
April 25, 2026 · Studio

Wins Two Awards at the Cambridge Design Biennale

We are proud to share that two of our apps — Hearth and Lexicon — were awarded "Best Local-First Product" and "Best Accessibility Implementation" at the 2026 Cambridge Design Biennale. Thank you to everyone who voted and supported us.

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Company
April 12, 2026 · Studio

Open-Sourcing Our SwiftUI Motion Library

After three years of internal iteration, we are releasing our proprietary SwiftUI motion primitives as an MIT-licensed open-source library. Includes spring-physics animations, motion curves, and the same micro-interaction system that powers every product in our portfolio.

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Research
March 28, 2026 · Privacy

Threat-Modeling a Local-First Photo App

Our privacy engineer walks through the process of threat-modeling a fully local-first photo application. We cover adversary modelling, attack-surface analysis, and the trade-offs between convenience and zero-knowledge guarantees.

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Product
March 14, 2026 · Stave

Stave 1.5 Adds Optical Music Recognition

Our sheet music library app can now scan, recognise, and digitise printed sheet music using an on-device CoreML model. The scanned music is searchable, transposable, and exportable as MusicXML — all in under 800ms per page.

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Event
February 28, 2026 · Studio

Cambridge Privacy Engineering Meetup — March 18

We are hosting the second edition of our quarterly Privacy Engineering Meetup at St John's Innovation Centre. Free entry, limited capacity. Topics include differential privacy, federated learning, and App Privacy Label case studies.

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Design
February 15, 2026 · Design

Why We Redesigned Our Icon System From Scratch

How a one-pixel misalignment in our system icons led to a full year-long redesign effort. The story behind the new icon system, the design decisions, and the tooling we built to enforce consistency at scale.

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