Adrian Cole
Founder / Engineering
Former platform lead. Obsessed with systems that survive contact with operations.
Studio
A small studio for serious software.
Graphion Studios is an independent technology practice. We build the systems companies run on — platforms, products, and the unglamorous software that keeps a business coherent.
Mission
Ship software that operations teams trust on a bad Tuesday.
Vision
A world where custom software is quieter, more honest, and owned by the people who depend on it.
Story
Why we exist.
The studio started because too many ‘digital transformations’ produced slideware and a brittle CMS. We staff senior generalists, keep the team small, and stay after launch.
Values
How we decide.
Specificity
We would rather be useful in one domain than vague in twelve.
Stewardship
Code is an asset. We write it as if we will be paged for it.
Candour
If the brief is wrong, we say so before we staff a team.
18
People
4
Cities
11
Active retainers
People
The studio.
Maya Ellison
Design & Editorial
Makes interfaces that operations people do not need a training session to use.
Jonah Reed
Cloud
Keeps production boring. Considers that a compliment.
Leila Hart
Delivery
Turns vague urgency into a sequence of honest releases.
Technologies
ReactNext.jsTypeScriptNode.jsMongoDBPostgreSQLReact NativeFlutterAWSDockerPythonStripe
If the problem is real, we should talk.
A working session is usually enough to know if we are the right studio.