Lathe

Lathe is a small senior studio based in the United Kingdom that builds web applications, AI agents, and autonomous platforms. They offer premium marketing sites, custom web applications, AI agent and RAG builds, and multi-agent autonomous platforms. The studio works directly with clients and provides ongoing care and iteration services after launch, covering monitoring, dependency updates, and agreed SLA fixes.

Pricing tiers range from £4,500 for marketing sites to £40,000 for autonomous platforms, with a monthly care plan starting at £450. They offer fixed scope and fixed price for marketing sites, while custom web applications are scoped in a one-week discovery with typical durations of 6–12 weeks. AI agent builds typically take 4–8 weeks, and autonomous platforms require a custom scope with a typical qualification period of 3–6 months.

To get started, clients can book a call directly or fill out a four-step intake form. The process begins with a short, paid discovery that ends in a written scope and a fixed quote, followed by weekly staging deploys from week two. Launch includes performance budgets met, analytics wired, and 30 days of fixes included.

The studio is deliberately small, taking on at most three engagements at once so nothing shipped is a side project. Everyone who touches the product has shipped production software for a decade or more, ensuring no juniors are learning on the client's dime. Decisions take a conversation rather than a steering committee, and they use a type-safe stack including Next.js, Postgres, and TypeScript.

Clients can contact the studio via [email protected] or [email protected] for billing and contracts. They reply within one UK business hour, and the studio is located in the United Kingdom with coordinates 51.5072° N · 0.1276° W. They also provide a recorded architecture walkthrough and handover docs to ensure no lock-in.

The studio believes in evidence over vibes, measuring performance budgets, evaluation harnesses, and conversion data for every decision. They use tools like OpenTelemetry, LangGraph, and Vercel, and ensure all agents are traced, costed, and replayable. A one-week paid discovery is used to cut small scopes that ship faster and compound over time.

Some reviewers praise the direct communication with the builders, noting that the person who scopes the project is the same person who builds it. The process avoids account managers and allows founders to work directly with the team. The studio emphasizes that small scopes ship faster and earn the right to grow.

The studio targets founders and teams who want senior expertise and fast execution without an account manager relaying messages. They are suitable for projects requiring premium marketing sites, custom web applications, AI agents, or autonomous platforms. The process is designed for clients who value a recorded architecture walkthrough and plain stacks for easy handover.

The studio operates on a monthly care plan that can be paused or cancelled anytime, with uptime and error monitoring with alerting. Security patches and dependency updates are handled within an agreed SLA for fixes. Quarterly performance and cost reviews are included to keep the product running efficiently.

The studio uses a type-safe stack including Next.js, Postgres, and TypeScript, ensuring plain stacks for easy handover. They also use OpenTelemetry for observability and LangGraph for agent orchestration. The process includes a recorded architecture walkthrough and handover docs to prevent lock-in.

The studio is located in the United Kingdom with coordinates 51.5072° N · 0.1276° W, and they reply within one UK business hour. They offer a monthly care plan starting at £450, which can be paused or cancelled anytime. The process includes a one-week paid discovery to end with a written scope and a fixed quote.

The studio uses a one-week paid discovery to end with a written scope and a fixed quote, avoiding slide decks. They also use a recorded architecture walkthrough and handover docs to ensure no lock-in. The process includes weekly staging deploys from week two to allow clients to watch the product grow.

The official website of Lathe is lathelabs.dev.

Lathe has no reviews on Trustburn yet. Anyone who has used it can write the first review on its Trustburn page.