Burlington is a small city with an unusual mix of employers. The largest by far is the University of Vermont Medical Center, followed by the University of Vermont itself and the GlobalFoundries chip plant in nearby Essex Junction. Around those anchors is a younger layer of companies that make Burlington feel bigger than it is: BETA Technologies building electric aircraft out at the airport, OnLogic making industrial computers, and a cluster of software and consumer brands that started here and stayed.
That mix shapes the work that makes sense for a studio like ours. Hospitals, colleges, and research groups have huge piles of documents and strict rules about where data can go. Manufacturers and aviation companies have technical manuals, maintenance records, and compliance paperwork that nobody wants to search by hand. Consumer brands and local retailers need websites and apps that look as good as the products do. We build all three kinds of things.
AI that keeps sensitive data where it belongs
A lot of Burlington’s work happens in healthcare, education, and research, where you can’t paste a patient record or a student file into a public chatbot. That’s exactly where we spend most of our time. We build retrieval systems (often called RAG) that answer questions from your own documents and cite the page they came from, so every answer can be checked. When the data is too sensitive to leave the building, we run the model on hardware you own instead of in someone else’s cloud.
The same approach works for a growing manufacturer. If your engineers spend an hour hunting through PDFs for the right torque spec or the last inspection note, that’s a search problem AI is now very good at, as long as it’s built to show its sources and admit when it doesn’t know.
Apps and websites for Vermont businesses
Plenty of our Burlington-area conversations aren’t about AI at all. A brewery, outfitter, or ski shop usually needs a fast, good-looking website that’s easy to update. A company with field crews spread across Chittenden County and beyond might need an iPhone app that keeps working when the signal drops on a back road. We build those too, with the same care we put into the AI work.
A city that likes doing things its own way
Burlington has a reputation for practical, independent choices. Its city-owned electric utility was one of the first in the country to source all of its power from renewable generation, and it got there by buying a local hydro plant and running a wood-fired generating station instead of waiting for someone else to solve the problem. We find that a lot of Vermont business owners think about software the same way. They’d rather own a tool that fits how they actually work than rent one that almost does.
That’s a good fit for how we build. We’d rather ship something small that you own and understand than a sprawling platform you’re locked into.
Working with us from Burlington
If you’re in Burlington and have a project in mind, the easiest first step is a short call. Tell us what’s eating your team’s week, and we’ll tell you honestly whether software can fix it and what it would take.