FirstBuild · Digital Studio · Toronto
We build the version people remember.
A digital studio for founders and executives. We design and engineer the apps, websites, AI automation, and MCP servers your name is judged by. One senior team, and a finish your clients will feel.
- 01One senior team
- The people who scope it are the people who write it.
- 02Fixed scope, fixed price
- Agreed in writing before a line is built.
- 03Held to a standard
- Quick to load, and easy for anyone to use.
- 04Already live
- A custom system we built, live and working today.
The work, not a description of it
A working MCP server, on this page.
Ask ours a question and watch it work, step by step. It is the same kind of AI system we build for clients: handling real tasks inside your systems, with every action checked and logged. Simulated for the web.
Simulated · every step scoped and logged
Four disciplines. One standard.
AI and MCP are the difference. We build them as production infrastructure your team can depend on, not a talking point, and hold every other discipline to the same bar.
Secure, standard servers that give AI assistants controlled access to your data and workflows, with every action permissioned and logged.
The manual work between the tools you already run, mapped and connected, so a day's operations run on their own, correctly, every time.
Native-feeling iOS, Android, and web applications, engineered to a standard your team is proud to put its name to.
Marketing sites and product surfaces built like software: fast, accessible, and precise to the pixel.
The surfaces, not slides
Craft is the part you can't fake.
We would rather show you a working interface than a picture of one. These are the four things we build, each shown exactly as it runs, down to the last detail.
- resolve_customer142ms
- fetch_invoices318ms
- reconcile_ledgerrunning
99.98%
success
0.4s
p95
14k
runs / mo
Representative interfaces. Client work stays private.
Running today
One standard, already live.
A secure server is live and handling real work every day. Two more engagements are in build to the same bar. Most of our work is under NDA, so we let what's running do the arguing.
See what's runningLive now
A custom MCP server
controlled · audited · secureAI assistants working inside a real platform through tightly controlled tools, with every action logged.
In build
AI automation
finance operationsA nightly reconciliation flow built to replace a day of manual finance work each week.
In build
Product & web
app + marketingA native app and its marketing surface, designed together as one piece of work.
Our bias
We would rather build one thing that becomes the reference than ten that blend in.
FirstBuild · Studio principle
How we work
A short path from decision to shipped.
We do not hand you a timeline. We hand you a running product. This is what happens between the first call and the day your site goes live: one object, maturing.
01
Orient
Before a pixel touches a screen, we understand what this site must do. One conversation, one shared brief. We leave knowing the audience, the decision we are moving, and the first thing the page has to say.
02
Design
Structure before surface. We sketch the skeleton in grey: navigation, hierarchy, the path a visitor takes. You review the bones before we dress them. Changes here are cheap, and we take full advantage of that.
03
Build
The wireframe becomes the thing itself. Type, colour, motion: each chosen because it serves this brand, not borrowed from a template. You get a private preview on day one of build week, not a reveal on the last.
04
Ship
We push to production, configure DNS, verify on every major device, and hand you the keys. Then we go quiet so you can watch real visitors use what we built. Most clients are live in three weeks.
Tell us what you're building.
We accept a handful of engagements each year, and we read every inquiry ourselves. Engagements typically start in the low-to-mid five figures.
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