A Seattle studio building custom platforms, web and mobile products, content systems and donation infrastructure for mission-driven organizations. Strategy, design, engineering and long-haul operations, under one roof, for platforms that have to stay up.
15 years.
Independent studio in Seattle since 2011 helping 42+ clients with 100+ projects.
A decade with KUOW.
Most of our relationships are measured in years, not months.
KUOW, Seattle’s NPR station, has run its website, apps, donation platform and newsroom CMS on one Moby-built API since 2016: a CMS that speaks NPR’s API both ways, a pledge-form builder with reporting, and custom work on Grove, NPR’s CMS for member stations. Classical KING FM is the newest station we work with. We help stations raise the money and run the systems that keep a newsroom on air.
A behavior-change study app can help a person quit smoking, live with PTSD or get through treatment, and that is the work we want most. Since 2016 we have shaped 10+ study apps to their protocols, Quitbot, iCanQuit and Quit Quest among them, on one HIPAA-compliant platform with analytics that satisfy IRB review, built with university research departments and large study teams across several organizations. We build for the study team’s aims and for the participant on the other end, at the same time.
Program leads at nonprofits, public health departments, universities and government program offices come to us with grant money, a hard date and something people need: a curriculum, a course, a resource. We built quit-smoking and PTSD curriculum apps for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the Cook For Your Life platform for people eating through cancer, and Nature Passport for IslandWood. Tight budgets, big ideas and the drive to help people: we have the last one too. Accessible, owned outright, and still running after the grant ends.
Pagliacci’s ordering app reorders a pizza in about 15 seconds and cut call-centre volume by more than 30%. Scritch, a startup inside Healthy Paws Pet Insurance built with Aon, gave pet parents a place to share thousands of photos, and Healthy Paws came back for it after Buddy. Companies come to us for a first version or the next one, and get one senior Seattle team from sketch to the App Store and Google Play, and for years after.
Most people arrive with a website or an app in mind. That is the right place to start. Tell us what it is and we will tell you which of these it wants to be.
You have a website or an app to make. We scope it with you in a short discovery, then the same senior designers and engineers carry it through design, build and launch.
Right when A defined product, a date, and a team that needs it to go well.
Nature Passport for IslandWood: brand, app and CMS.
The platform is live and has to stay that way. We keep it up, keep it current and keep building on it, which is how most of our client relationships became a decade long.
Right when A pledge drive, a study, or a semester that depends on it.
Pagliacci: a website and two apps, supported for years.
You bring one protocol, one program or one first round of users. Fixed scope and a fixed date, on foundations we have already hardened.
Right when A grant, a pilot, or a first version.
10+ study apps on one platform.
Tell us what you are trying to do, and who for. The first call is 30 minutes, no prep needed, and you will get a straight answer about whether we are the right team.