Senior people.
Real ownership.
LUMEN&HOUSE is a senior-only engineering studio. The people who scope your project are the people who build it — and they stay for what happens after launch.
How we work
Five principles we don't bend.
Senior-only
No juniors learning on your budget. Every hand on your product is an engineer who has shipped things like it before.
No handoffs
Design and engineering are one team. Nothing is lost in translation because there is no translation.
Own the outcome
We're measured on whether the thing works in the market — not on hours billed or tickets closed.
You keep the keys
Your code, your infra, your accounts. Documented and clean, with zero lock-in to us.
Fast by default
Performance and accessibility are build gates, not a phase we get to if there's time. There always is.
Stay for the compounding
Launch is the start. We iterate against real data so the product gets better, not staler.
jobs: quality: steps: - typecheck # 0 errors - test # unit + e2e - a11y # WCAG 2.2 AA - lighthouse # budget: 100 - deploy # preview URL
The bar, automated
If it isn't green, it doesn't ship.
Type errors, failing tests, accessibility violations and performance regressions all fail the build. The standard isn't a promise in a deck — it's enforced on every commit, on a preview URL you can click.
Start here
Let's build the thing they can't stop using.
Send the brief. A senior engineer reads every one and comes back with an architecture, a plan and a quote written against your actual scope — usually within a day.