Ship AI products with studio ownership
Big agencies are slow to decide, and a single freelancer can struggle with the full breadth of a product. A studio-sized team sits comfortably between the two.
Projects run on milestones rather than an open-ended discovery phase. Every phase ends with something you can click, test, or release.
If that sounds like your situation, Arcode is set up for founders searching for an AI product studio. Arcode is an AI product studio covering agents, MCP, RAG, and full-stack delivery for teams that need working software.
What you get
- AI-native product builds
- MCP and agent systems
- Web and mobile surfaces
- Launch-ready architecture
- One studio accountable for the result
- Design and engineering on the same schedule
- Support available after launch
How engagement works
As your AI product studio, we run a shared backlog, design reviews, and engineering sprints, and you keep one point of contact throughout.
- 01
Discover
Goals, constraints, data sources, and success metrics, all settled before we touch architecture or prompts. Nothing here waits on a handover between separate teams.
- 02
Design
System design, AI/tool boundaries, interface direction, and interaction prototypes. On AI product development projects we favour practical architecture over trendy defaults.
- 03
Build
Modern stack, clean architecture, evaluated AI behavior, and iterative demos you can react to. The work for teams in Europe stays tied to the outcome you asked for.
- 04
Launch
Ship, monitor, harden, and keep improving models, tools, and product after go-live. You see progress on the critical path every week.
How we build it, and why
The stack is chosen per project, not applied from a template. For AI product studio work these are the defaults, and the reason each one is on the list.
- OpenAI
- a second model provider, so a single vendor's outage or price change is not your problem
- Claude
- long-context reasoning and reliable tool calling for agent work
- MCP
- the Model Context Protocol, so your tools plug into Claude, Cursor, and other agent clients without a custom adapter for each
- Next.js
- server rendering and static generation in one framework, so marketing pages stay fast and app routes stay dynamic
- NestJS
- structure and dependency injection on the backend, which keeps a growing API from turning into a pile of route handlers
- React Native
- one codebase for iOS and Android, which halves the surface area you maintain after launch
What the first weeks look like
- Week 1
Scope and architecture
Users, data, integrations, and constraints, ending in a written plan for the AI product development that you approve before anyone opens an editor.
- Weeks 2-3
Design the critical path
The screens that carry the product, prototyped and clickable. Design and engineering review together, so nothing gets drawn that cannot ship.
- Weeks 4-8
Build in weekly slices
Every week ends with something on a real URL. ai-native product builds lands early, because the rest of the plan depends on it working.
- Launch
Ship, measure, hand over
Release, monitoring, analytics, and a documented handover, so your team can carry it without calling us.
Weighing up your options
There are three realistic ways to get this built. Each is the right answer for someone.
A solo freelancer
Cheapest per hour and fine for a contained task. The risk on AI product development is breadth — one person covering design, backend, infrastructure, and launch usually means one of them is weak, and there is no cover when they are unavailable.
A local agency in Europe
Same timezone and a face to meet, which genuinely matters for some teams. You are also paying European clients prioritizing GDPR and solid engineering. rates for the whole team including the layers that never touch your AI product development, and a local shortlist is a small shortlist.
Arcode
A small senior team. The people who scope the AI product development write the code, you get weekly demos instead of status decks, and the engagement ends when the thing is live and handed over.
Work we have shipped
Case Management Hub
Full-stack engineer · NestJS · Next.js
HIPAA-compliant healthcare SaaS for 150+ US organizations, with dual databases, realtime collaboration, billing, and secure client portals.
Enterprise case management platform for healthcare and social-work organizations with encryption, realtime messaging, Stripe billing, Zoom, and calendar sync.
- · HIPAA-ready architecture with encryption and audit logging
- · Realtime collaboration via Socket.io + Redis
- · Client portal and role-based access control
- · Stripe billing and document workflows
Next.js · NestJS · TypeScript · MongoDB · Redis · Socket.io
Circlin Waitlist
Lead frontend · Next.js 15
Multilingual waitlist and referral product for a secondhand fashion brand, covering localization, analytics, and growth loops.
Waitlist experience with EN/DE localization, referral tiers, MDX blog, and analytics for Circlin.
- · EN/DE internationalization
- · Referral reward tiers
- · MDX blog and SEO content
- · Analytics and cookie consent
Next.js 15 · TypeScript · Tailwind · MDX · React 19
VIP Hires
Full-stack · Payments · UX
Recruitment platform with Stripe payments, workflow management, and polished motion-driven UI.
Hiring product covering job posting payments, candidate workflows, forms, and analytics.
- · Stripe payment flows
- · Recruitment workflow stages
- · Validated multi-step forms
- · Analytics charts and notifications
Next.js · Redux Toolkit · Stripe · Framer Motion · Zod
Working with teams in Europe
European clients prioritizing GDPR and solid engineering. Work is remote-first (EU time zones), with written updates you can read in your own time. We usually collaborate in English.
How we work with Europe teams
Most of Europe sits within a couple of hours of CET, so a normal working day gives real overlap almost regardless of which country you are in. We confirm the exact hours on the first call rather than assuming one schedule fits the whole continent.
What Europe clients usually need
European briefs cluster in the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands: SaaS platforms, fintech-adjacent products, and ecommerce brands rebuilding ahead of a busy season.
Contracts, data, and compliance
GDPR shapes almost every project here: where data is hosted, how consent is captured, how long records are kept. We default to EU-hosted data stores unless there is a reason not to, and document the data flow before writing code.
