Taking on new projects

Ideas deserve
to sail.

We build the product when you have the idea but not the team. We fix the ops when your team is too busy doing work that should run itself.

20+

products & systems shipped

Web apps, mobile products, automation pipelines. Nothing proprietary — everything documented and handed over.

10+

clients across 3+ countries

Sri Lanka · UAE · United States — founders and operators who know what they want to build.

How we work

Three stages.
Zero
guesswork.

Most projects fail because someone started writing code before they understood the problem. We don't skip the mapping step.

48h

live mockup

Two business days from discovery to a blueprint or clickable prototype. Free diagnosis included.

Discovery · 12 questions

Map the system first

Twelve focused questions. Nothing more. You leave with a system map that shows where the actual problem is — before we write a single line of code.

Scope & milestones
Current workflow
Existing stack
Blueprint · 48h turnaround48h turnaround

See it before we build it

Wireframes, workflow maps, or a clickable prototype — in 48 hours. You review the plan, we adjust if needed, then we build.

Build · milestone-drivenmilestones included

Ship to milestones

Products in 8-week sprints. Automations in phases. You know what's shipping next and when — no black boxes, no surprises.

"M2 approved — when does M3 ship?"
End of week — on track ↗
M2 done · M3 in buildON TRACK

Services

Four things
we're actually
good at.

Early-stage founders get a build partner. Growing teams get their ops fixed. Everything else we leave to people who are better at it.

01

Product development

Got an idea and need a team to build it? We work alongside you — from first wireframe to shipped product, usually in 8 weeks. No handoffs, daily contact.

02

AI workflow automation

Your team is probably spending 20–30 hours a month on work that could run itself. We find it, automate it, and hand over the keys.

03

Shopify + commerce

Shopify stores that don't need babysitting. Inventory, pricing, cart recovery — wired up to handle themselves so you can focus on growing the thing.

04

Creative studio

Photography, brand identities, lookbooks, packaging — done by people who also understand why it needs to convert, not just look good.

03 / Product & automation

Build what's
unclear. Automate
what's already obvious.

We co-build products when validation is uncertain — and architect automations when execution is the only blocker.

Early-stage teams and ambitious SMBs come to us with manual chaos. They leave with lean, AI-powered workflows that ship features and run operations while their founders sleep.

console.theboat.io / pier — sprint 03 of 064 agents · live
Build pipeline · 7
Automations · 23
Runs · 1.2k / 24h
+ new flow
Discover2

Pricing page v2 — tier names test

Validation agent · 38% signup lift

B2B onboarding — Slack-first?

12 customer calls · spec drafting
In buildwk 3/6

Stripe → HubSpot deal sync

Imran · staging

Inbound triage agent (Gmail)

Hira · dev

Founder weekly digest

Saif · spec
Shipped · wk2

Lead router v1

Mon · 184 leads / 4 reps

Quote → invoice in 1 click

Wed · 14 deals / day
Live automations
last 24h · 1,247 runs · 99.6% ok
LLinear ticket → spec briefClaude · Notion
312 ✓
SStripe failed → revive pingStripe · HubSpot
running
GGmail triage → reply draftGmail · Claude
84 ✓
AAirtable lead → SDR routeAirtable · Slack
queued · 6

Avg manual hours killed · per month

1,240hrs

Across the last 9 SMBs we rewired — work that used to need a hire or two, now runs unattended.

Manual chaosLean & automated

Mode 01

Co-build

Mode 02

Automate

01

Co-build, not ship-and-forget.

We embed for 6–10 weeks, ship a real v1, and hand over the keys — not a deck.

02

Narrow agents, not chat boxes.

Inbound triage, billing recovery, lead routing, weekly digests — agents that act, not chat.

03

Native to your tools.

Linear, Notion, HubSpot, Stripe, Slack, Gmail, Airtable — wired via 20+ named flows.

04

You own the running system.

Built on your infra. No vendor lock-in. Source, agent prompts and credentials — handed over.

Next.js + tRPCLinearNotionn8n + MakeHubSpotStripeClaude / OpenAI
Selected work

Real
systems
we've
built.

What we've shipped. Some are products built with founders, some are systems built for operators — all of them start with a real problem.

Avg outcome

Manual hours saved per client, per month.

38h/ month
7/ automations
Not just techy
Frames · Creative Studio

We also shoot, brand, and make things beautiful.

Product photography, brand identities, lookbooks, packaging — the same systems-first precision applied to creative work.

Product photography ·Brand identities ·Lookbooks ·Packaging & print ·Campaign content
04 / Commerce intelligence

Stores that
read the room.
And restock it.

We build Shopify storefronts wired to an automation spine — and quietly retrofit them with AI agents that watch inventory, prices, customers and creative all day.

The store sells. The system tunes the store. You read the dashboard with your morning coffee.

admin.shopify.com / teragon / overview3 agents · live
Sales · last 7 daysrefreshed 38s ago

Revenue

$48,210

▲ 22% wow

Orders

312

▲ 41 vs avg

Abandoned

11.4%

▼ −4.1 pts · agent active

Top productStockSold · wkAI signal
Cask 014 · 12yr
92184restock in 6d
Botanica Reserve
21871price test +12%
Saffron 8yr
1422cap PPC spend

Avg lift after retrofit

+34%

Revenue per visitor across the last 6 Shopify stores we shipped + tuned.

01

Headless or themed — we ship both.

Hydrogen + Next.js for ambitious catalogs. Tuned Dawn for fast-shipping operators.

02

AI agents, not chatbots.

Inventory, pricing, creative testing, cart recovery — narrow agents that act, not chat.

03

Glued to your stack.

Klaviyo, Notion, Airtable, Stripe, Aramex, DHL — talked to via 12+ named flows.

04

Owned, not rented.

No bespoke vendor lock-in. Agents run on your infra. Keys handed over on day one.

Shopify PlusHydrogenn8n + MakeKlaviyoOpenAI / ClaudeStripe
— Why theBOAT

Built for
builders,
not just
buyers.

Most agencies disappear after the kickoff call. We stay in your Slack, know your stack, and we care about whether the thing we built actually worked.

Transparent process

Price, milestones, and deliverables agreed before we start. No surprises, no scope creep, no renegotiations halfway through.

48h

From first call to a working blueprint. Every engagement, no exceptions.

Systems thinking,
end to end.

We map the architecture first, build second.

Embedded, not outsourced

Daily comms, shared context. We work in your problem, not around it — closer to a co-founder than a contractor.

Connected stack

n8n, Make, Claude, Shopify, Stripe, HubSpot, Notion — 12+ named integrations.

3 revision rounds included

Comment, react, approve. Until it's exactly right.

R1
R2
R3

No lock-in. Ever.

You own everything on day one.

Code, accounts, configs, docs — it all belongs to you from day one. If you want to take it somewhere else, you can.

FAQ

The honest answers.

Don't see your question? Ask us directly — we reply within 24 hours.

Both. We work with early-stage founders who need a team to build their product — usually 8-week sprints from idea to shipped. We also work with growing teams who are drowning in manual ops and need those hours back. Same approach, different problems.

01 — Book a strategy call

30 minutes.
No sales pitch.

We'll map one product challenge or ops bottleneck and walk you through how we'd approach it — whether or not you work with us.

Available this weekUTC+5:30 · Colombo
Avg response: 24hConfirm slot

02 — Send us your details

Or write us
a short brief.

A few lines about your business and what you're trying to fix. We'll reply within one business day.

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