Senpai Studio

Design it. Build it. Launch it.

Websites for growing businesses. Products ready for real users. A design and engineering team to take your next move from idea to launch.

01  Packages

Choose your starting point.

One team from the first sketch to launch.

Design and engineering work together from the start. You speak to the people building your project, see progress each week, and keep the code, designs and accounts.

02  Selected work

Work you can explore.

A selection of products designed and built by our team, including our own platforms.

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Heritage Atlas

A verified map of Nigerian heritage, recorded by the people who hold it and built end to end here.

Explore the project →
Client work

SitterFind

A vetted babysitter marketplace, live in the US.

Have a marketplace or service idea of your own?

Discuss your build →
03  Capabilities

What we can actually do.

01

Brand & product design

Identity, interface and the design system underneath, so the tenth screen looks like the first.

  • Identity systems
  • Product UI
  • Design systems
  • Art direction
02

Engineering

Websites, products and internal tools, from interface to deployment. You own the code and can choose where it runs.

  • Web applications
  • iOS and Android apps
  • Internal company systems
  • APIs and integrations
03

AI systems

AI built into how a business actually runs, not bolted on the side. From a single automated task to an operating system a whole team works from.

  • Autonomous agents and workflows
  • AI-native products
  • Operational systems for a whole business
  • Automation across a company
04

Film & story

The part most technical teams skip. Work nobody understands does not travel, and work that does not travel changes nothing.

  • Documentary film
  • Photography
  • Essays and field notes
  • Launch content
04  How we build

The standard doesn't shrink with the scope.

  1. 01

    We say no more than we say yes.

    If it does not fit four weeks honestly, we tell you what does.

  2. 02

    The team that ships it is the team you talk to.

    No handoff to a name you never met.

  3. 03

    You can fire us and keep everything.

    Code, designs, accounts, domain. Yours from day one.

  4. 04

    Exclusions are written down first.

    A scope that hides its edges is a trap, not a scope.

  5. 05

    Small work gets the same discipline.

    Four weeks means launched to real users, not a demo.

05  How it works

Four steps.

  1. 01

    Tell us

    A rough idea is enough.

  2. 02

    We scope it

    One conversation, fixed before anything is paid.

  3. 03

    We build

    Real progress weekly. No end-of-project reveal.

  4. 04

    You launch

    Go live on your domain, with a handover so your team can take it forward.

06  Who you get

A small core, and a bench behind it.

Studio runs deliberately small. When a project needs a skill the core does not have, it comes from the Collective, not from a job board.

Henry Ikoh
Founder

Henry Ikoh

Product designer, systems architect and full-stack engineer, working at the intersection of social impact and technology.

The bench

The Senpai Collective

A vetted community of designers, developers and creatives with a contribution record you can actually check. Specialists join a project when it needs them and step off when it does not.

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07  Questions

Before you ask.

Who builds my product?
The Senpai core team, with Collective specialists where the project needs them. Nothing goes to strangers.
Does my project go into your portfolio?
Only if you want it to. Client work is yours: you pay for it, you own it, and it stays private if you say so. The portfolio is a separate, selected thing.
What is not included in Launch?
Native app-store apps, and third-party costs: domain, paid tools. Anything past the agreed scope is scoped as new work.
How does the Launch guarantee work?
Scope agreed in writing before we start. If we miss it in four weeks, you get your money back.
Is the AI real, or a slide?
Where it earns its place: agents, automation inside a workflow, friction removed for a real user. We do not add it to pad a list.
08  Start a project

What do you want to put into the world?

A rough brief is enough to start. Tell us what you need, and we’ll discuss the scope, cost and delivery plan with you.

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