I built Koalesce Studios because I kept watching good ideas die the same way. Founder has an idea. Hires someone to build it. Skips the research. Launches. Nothing works. Money gone. I've spent 25 years shipping real products across UX, design, and development at Microsoft, Stanford School of Medicine, and Google. At Adaptive Insights I worked as a senior software engineer. Everywhere else I operated as a hybrid, designing and building at the same time. What I learned across all of it is the same: you cannot build the right thing without first validating the problem. That's the foundation of everything at Koalesce Studios. We research first. We design what the research tells us to build. Then we build it. We've used that same process to ship our own products including Diversity Avatar Stickers and Desivity, a decentralized social platform for creatives. Senior-led from day one. Every time. If you're a funded founder who needs to get it right before you scale, we'd love to work with you.

Koalesce Studios

Strategy. Research. Design. Development. All 4. One studio.

Strategy. Research. Design. Development. All 4. One studio.