Independent Software Studio
Bringing big ideas to life.
Hiring intelligence, live polling, performance analytics, local visibility, margin math for cottage bakers, a puzzle game — each one live under its own name, each one still supported.
No handoffs
Whoever designs a product writes it, ships it and keeps it running. There's no agency in the middle and no maintenance contract that quietly lapses a year after launch.
Does one job properly
Each product is built to do one thing well rather than sprawl until it does everything adequately. You get a tool that fits the job instead of a platform you have to configure around it.
Live, not coming soon
Everything in the portfolio is in front of real users — under its own domain, on the app stores, or in the field. Anything still in development says so.
Portfolio
Live
Meritas
Merit-based hiring intelligence. Anonymized, standardized, and scored for signal over bias.
Live
GLQ
Real-time polling and sentiment intelligence with crosstab analytics for modern organizations.
Live
Shortpath
Performance analytics and AI narrative generation. Raw data in. Executive insight out.
Live
Make It Straight
Picture frames, sagging shelves, street signs on a hill. Nothing is straight until you make it, and then you find out exactly how wrong you were, to a tenth of a degree.
Live
Seacoast Leads
Getting local businesses found on Google. Map-pack ranking, review growth and profile fixes for trades companies losing calls to better-listed competitors.
Live
Yield
Ingredient cost tracking and recipe scaling for cottage bakers. Know your margins before you price a single item.
Waitlist open
Adstratis
Finds the people already asking for what your app does, drafts a reply worth sending, and learns each week from what turned into signups.
In development
Camp Cameron
A live-versus-studio audio classifier and acquisition pipeline for large music libraries. Sixteen acoustic features, validated with artists held out.
In development
Homefront
A family logistics copilot that answers one question well: what is happening today, and who owns it? The same answer on every parent's phone.
Your problem here
Something you keep working around, or a tool you wish existed? Tell us about it. If it's worth solving well, it could be the next card on this page.
Approach
We design, build, ship and support each product ourselves — under our own domains, in front of real users. The range isn't a strategy we set out to have; it's what happens when you pick problems on their merits rather than on whether they fit a category you've already committed to. What the products have in common is that someone here uses each one, and someone here is on the hook when it breaks.
Contact
The people who built it answer the email. Bug reports, questions and "does it do X?" all land in the same inbox — no queue, no tier one.
hello@narrowline.co