● Independent Software Studio / Est. 2026

We design and build
software worth owning.

ArcSmiths is a small, senior studio shipping web, mobile, and platform products end to end — from the first sketch to production. We also build our own.

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Web · Mobile · Platforms · Payments · AI
  • Product strategy
  • UX & UI design
  • Web apps
  • Mobile apps
  • Platforms & APIs
  • E-commerce
  • Payments
  • POS integrations
  • AI & computer vision
  • Games
  • Cloud & DevOps
  • Maintenance & support

What we build

01 — Capabilities
  • 01 →

    Web apps

    Storefronts, dashboards, and marketing sites with server-side rendering — fast, accessible, and SEO-ready.

    • Storefronts
    • Dashboards
    • Marketing sites
  • 02 →

    Mobile apps

    iOS and Android from a single codebase — native feel, push notifications, and deep links.

    • iOS
    • Android
    • One codebase
  • 03 →

    Commerce & payments

    Custom Shopify storefronts and Stripe checkout — subscriptions, marketplace splits, and conversion-tuned commerce, with PCI handled.

    • Shopify
    • Stripe
    • Checkout
  • 04 →

    Platforms & integrations

    Multi-tenant backends, typed APIs, and POS sync — Square, Toast, and Clover kept in step, built to scale from the first user.

    • APIs
    • Multi-tenant
    • POS sync
  • 05 In-house

    AI & computer vision

    Facial recognition, liveness and anti-spoofing, and on-device inference — applied ML wired into real, shipping products, not demos.

    • Facial recognition
    • Liveness
    • On-device
  • 06 Now building

    Games

    Original games — worldbuilding, systems, and feel. We’re currently building Aeldrath.

    • Worldbuilding
    • Systems
    • Original IP

Selected work

02 — Work

“We get $300 details booked from the website almost every day now.”

— Owner, Magnolia Car Wash · Santee, CA

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Our product

Arcbay Live

Booking, loyalty, and staff systems for auto-care businesses — bespoke, hosted, and fully managed by us. It's the platform behind Magnolia Car Wash, and it includes PunchBay, our kiosk time clock where staff punch in with their face.

  • Online booking
  • Punch-card loyalty
  • Staff dashboard
  • PunchBay time clock
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03 — Studio

A small studio that designs, builds, and ships the whole arc of a product.

ArcSmiths is independent and senior by design. The same people who scope your product write the code and put it in front of users — no hand-offs, no telephone game. We partner with founders and teams, and we build our own products to keep our judgment sharp.

  • 01 Design Interfaces with a point of view. We sweat typography, motion, and the details that make software feel considered — not generated.
  • 02 Build Type-safe, tested, and maintainable. Modern tools chosen for the job, not the résumé — and a codebase you’d want to inherit.
  • 03 Ship End to end, into production. CI, observability, and the operational glue that keeps a product running after launch day.

We handle the whole thing — so you don't have to.

04 — How we work

Whether you need a single website, a full business launch — workspace, domain, hosting, the works — or a custom system like Magnolia's booking and loyalty platform, we meet you where you are and take care of everything technical. Fast, but done properly.

  1. 01 Discovery We learn your business, your customers, and what success looks like. A conversation, not a sales pitch — and no charge.
  2. 02 Scope & plan We map exactly what to build and hand you a clear plan — what you get, the timeline, and the price — before any work starts.
  3. 03 Design & build The same people who scoped it design and build it, shipping in increments you can watch come together.
  4. 04 Launch & care We put it live — domain, hosting, deployment, all handled — and stick around to keep it running.

The whole technical side, off your plate

We can set up and manage as much or as little as you already have — so you never touch a control panel unless you want to. Every project is different, so we scope each one individually: tell us where you're starting from and we'll come back with a clear, fixed plan.

  • Domain
  • Hosting
  • Deployment
  • Email
  • Analytics
  • Ongoing updates
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