East Ridge Studio is a boutique full-stack software engineering practice building production-grade web applications, data platforms, and AI-native systems for data-heavy clients — financial services firms, research organizations, government and municipal agencies, and serious operators with complex data problems.
Every engagement is led, designed, and built by the same hands. The stack is modern, intentional, and in production at institutional scale.
Production systems built on Next.js 15 App Router, TypeScript and Tailwind, with a UI vocabulary that scales from internal tools to public-facing portals.
Tile pipelines, vector layers, custom interactivity. Built for biodiversity atlases, statewide siting tools, and public data portals — fast on slow networks.
From raw ingest to interactive grid. Million-row tables, time-series charts, and bespoke dashboards that hold up under analyst scrutiny.
Headless architectures with structured editorial workflows. Editors get an interface that feels like a tool, not a maze of fields.
Edge-first deployment on Vercel and Cloudflare. R2 object storage, Workers for compute, hardened CI/CD pipelines, and predictable bills.
MCP servers, agentic workflows, and retrieval pipelines built around real domain data — not chatbot wrappers. Tooling that actually replaces work.
PostgreSQL schemas designed for the long haul. Row-level security, real-time subscriptions, audit trails, and migrations that age gracefully.
REST, tRPC, and edge functions. Typed end-to-end where it matters; pragmatic where it doesn't. Documented and observable from day one.
The studio runs on a deliberately small stack — modern enough to move fast, mature enough to deliver to a procurement officer. If a project calls for a tool that isn't on the graph, that's part of the work.
Public links where they exist; client names withheld where they don’t. Detailed walk-throughs and references available on request.
Built for a property-tax consultancy serving the energy sector. Every operating power plant in the United States rendered as an interactive map with ownership, capacity, fuel-type, and parcel-level overlays — a research surface that replaces a folder of spreadsheets and PDFs.
Real-time bond data terminal with an LLM-integrated research interface. Custom MCP server exposes structured market data to Claude; analysts query natural-language and get back grids, charts, and citations — not slop.
Double-entry ledger across consolidated entities with a natural-language UX layered over a typed API. Built MCP-first so the same surface drives the GUI, agents, and external integrations without translation.
Storefront and print-fulfillment workflow for a fine-art photographer. Headless catalog, Stripe checkout, lightweight CMS for the artist to publish new work without touching code, and image pipelines tuned for prints.
East Ridge Studio is a one-principal shop. Every line of code, every schema decision, every map tile is signed off by the same person — and that person spent eighteen years inside financial markets before committing full-time to modern web engineering.
That background shows up in the work: cautious about state, serious about correctness, allergic to dependencies that won't be around in three years. The studio is small on purpose. It exists to do a handful of things at a level that bigger firms quietly subcontract out.
Engagements range from fixed-scope builds and RFP responses to long-running retainers. The studio is most useful to organizations with serious data — onboarding flows that need to feel inevitable, dashboards analysts and program staff will live in, public-facing data portals, and bespoke internal tools that replace spreadsheets and Jira tickets.
The studio is selective about new engagements but reads every inquiry. The fastest way to a real conversation is a paragraph describing the problem you're trying to solve and any constraints (timeline, budget range, procurement vehicle) up front.
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