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Moby is a Seattle software studio founded in 2011 by Tim Moser and James Jacoby. We have been tiny and we have been much bigger. We chose small: a senior team with the founders in the work, building websites, apps, and platforms for people doing good in the world.

Seattle, 2011. Two founders, one studio.

We started Moby in Seattle in 2011. Tim leads design; James leads development. The name is ours, Moser plus Jacoby, and fifteen years on we are still in the work.

The work is the last mile between an organization and the people it exists for. A station and its members. A study team and the participant on day one of quitting. A program office and the veteran halfway through a lesson.

KUOW since 2016. 10+ behavior-change study apps since 2016, with university research departments. Cook For Your Life since 2019. Pagliacci’s ordering apps, Scritch for Healthy Paws, Nature Passport for IslandWood, and three products in a row for Fluke.

Moser + Jacoby.

Design and engineering sit together here, and the two of us stay in the work alongside a small, senior team. The people you meet on the first call are the people who build it.

Design

Tim Moser

Design direction, strategy, and product design: turning what you want to do into something people can use.

Development

James Jacoby

Platforms, integrations, and the systems behind the product, kept working long after launch.

One team, from the first sketch to the years after.

A first idea, a defined build, or a platform that needs looking after. Strategy, design, engineering, and operations stay connected, from the first conversation to the years after launch.

  1. 01

    Start with the person.

    The listener making a pledge, the participant in a study, the parent finding an activity. What they need shapes what we build.

  2. 02

    Take the protocol seriously.

    An IRB-ready study design, an NPR integration, an accessibility requirement: these are the product, not paperwork around it.

  3. 03

    A fixed scope and a fixed date, said out loud.

    We scope the work with you in a short discovery, then say what it will take and when.

  4. 04

    Stay with the work.

    Launch is one day in a platform’s life. We keep building and looking after the systems people use for years; a decade with KUOW is one example.

Come build something with us.

If you are building something that makes life better for people, we would like to help. Tell us what it is.