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About

An independent studio that builds its own products.

Flying Black Cat Studios designs, builds, and operates a growing portfolio of digital products for everyday life. We are not primarily a contract software-development agency — we make things we own, run, and keep improving.

What we do

A product studio, not an agency

Most of our work goes into our own portfolio: finding a real, ordinary problem, building something focused, putting it in front of people, and improving it until it earns its keep.

AI is woven through all of it — research, design exploration, engineering, testing, operations, marketing, and support. It gives a small studio genuine reach. It does not give the studio permission to stop thinking.

What we believe

Seven things we keep on the wall

  • Useful beats impressive.

    A product that quietly works is worth more than one that demos well.

  • Clear beats complicated.

    If it needs a tutorial to be understood, we probably haven't finished designing it.

  • Small products can solve meaningful problems.

    Scope is a design tool, not a limitation.

  • AI should amplify judgment, not replace accountability.

    Machines can do the work. People own the consequences.

  • Good design respects people's time.

    Fewer steps, fewer decisions, less noise.

  • Businesses can create value without becoming soulless.

    Sustainable and decent are not opposites.

  • Experimentation is part of the work.

    Some ideas will not survive contact with reality. That's the point.

Where we're going

A multidisciplinary studio, built deliberately

The direction we're building toward is a studio where human specialists and AI systems work together across the full range of disciplines a real product company needs.

To be clear: these are not existing departments. Today the studio is small. This is where it is heading, not a description of an org chart that already exists.

  • Product
  • Design
  • Engineering
  • Operations
  • Finance
  • Legal
  • Marketing
  • Customer experience
  • Research