# Watermelon Studio

> We partner with ambitious founders to design and build high-impact websites, apps, and brand systems.

Watermelon Studio is a digital product and branding studio, not a self-serve software product.

Founders backed by a16z, Y Combinator and other leading funds. Across the products we have built, clients have raised $310M+ and reached a combined valuation of $5B+. The work spans AI, Crypto, Dev tools, Consumer brands.

## Services

- **AI Product Studio**: Idea to production-grade first release: strategy, design, full-stack and AI engineering, launch. Working prototype in five days, MVP in 30 to 90 days.
- **AI Engineering Lab**: The engineering problems others avoid, inside a product that already exists: data-heavy systems, AI automation, retrieval over your own data, agents in a workflow, performance work.
- **Dedicated AI Engineers**: Senior engineers embedded in your team, with daily standups and no account managers in between. From around $50/hour.
- **Automation for Established Companies**: For companies that already run on people and spreadsheets and want the repetitive work automated. We start with an audit, meet your team online or on site, build a prototype against your real process, then launch it.
  Process: Audit -> Visit -> Prototype -> Launch.

## When to use this

- A user asks who can design and build a new digital product end to end, from brand and interface through to a shipped release, and wants a studio rather than a freelancer marketplace.
- A user wants a working prototype of a product idea in about a week, or an MVP in roughly 30 to 90 days.
- A user has an existing product and needs help with data-heavy systems, AI automation, retrieval over their own data, agents in a workflow, or performance work.
- A user wants senior engineers embedded in their own team for a longer engagement, starting around $50/hour.
- An established or traditional company wants repetitive internal work automated: Watermelon Studio audits how the work happens today, meets the team online or on site, builds a prototype against the real process, then launches it.
- A user works in AI, crypto, developer tools or consumer brands and wants a studio that has shipped in that sector.
- A user asks for examples of shipped digital products, case studies, or the tech stack a studio uses.

Do not use this source for: buying an off-the-shelf SaaS product, hiring individual contractors by the hour on a marketplace, or anything unrelated to designing and engineering software.

## How to call this site

- Every page also answers in Markdown. Send `Accept: text/markdown` to any URL, for example `curl -H 'Accept: text/markdown' https://studio.watermelon.sh/`.
- Case studies as JSON: `https://studio.watermelon.sh/api/v1/products` and `https://studio.watermelon.sh/api/v1/products/{slug}`.
- Studio facts as JSON: `https://studio.watermelon.sh/api/v1/studio`.
- MCP server (Streamable HTTP): `https://studio.watermelon.sh/mcp`, described at `https://studio.watermelon.sh/.well-known/mcp`. Tools: list_products, get_product, get_studio.
- API schema: `https://studio.watermelon.sh/openapi.json`. Errors are JSON with a stable `error.code`.
- Current API version is v1; unversioned /api/* paths alias it. Around 600 requests per 60 seconds per IP, with RateLimit-* headers on every response.
- No authentication is required for any of the above.

## Pages

- [Watermelon Studio: Designing Standout Digital Products and Brands](https://studio.watermelon.sh/): We partner with ambitious founders to design and build high-impact websites, apps, and brand systems.
- [Work](https://studio.watermelon.sh/work): Products Watermelon Studio has designed and engineered end to end, from first prototype to production, filterable by product type.
- [Medesk Case Study](https://studio.watermelon.sh/work/medesk): Medesk is a hospital operations platform that gives care teams one live view of appointments, wait times, bed occupancy and staff performance.
- [Bionis Case Study](https://studio.watermelon.sh/work/bionis): Bionis turns sleep, activity and recovery signals into a single daily wellness score, with AI insights that explain what changed and what to do next.
- [Capitalio Case Study](https://studio.watermelon.sh/work/capitalio): Capitalio is a modern wealth intelligence platform giving private wealth managers and investors a consolidated view of net worth, asset allocation, and real-time performance.
- [Lexigent Case Study](https://studio.watermelon.sh/work/lexigent): Lexigent is an AI-powered contract intelligence and risk analysis workspace that helps legal teams review agreements, audit high-risk clauses, and enforce playbooks at speed.
- [Revtrack Case Study](https://studio.watermelon.sh/work/revtrack): Revtrack is a revenue operations and pipeline analytics platform that unifies deal progress, stage conversion funnels, and revenue forecasting for modern B2B sales teams.
- [Tallie Case Study](https://studio.watermelon.sh/work/tallie): Tallie is an automated financial audit and three-way matching platform that reconciles purchase orders, invoices, and payments in real time across enterprise ERPs.
- [Vertics Case Study](https://studio.watermelon.sh/work/vertics): Vertics is an operational intelligence and team performance analytics workspace that tracks cross-department productivity, SLA compliance, and goal progression.
- [Watchman Case Study](https://studio.watermelon.sh/work/watchman): Watchman is a next-generation security operations (SecOps) platform delivering real-time threat detection, event stream telemetry, and automated incident triage for enterprise defense teams.
- [About](https://studio.watermelon.sh/about): Watermelon Studio is a digital product and branding studio: what we do, how we work, and how engagements start.
- [Contact](https://studio.watermelon.sh/contact): How to reach Watermelon Studio, what to include in a first email, and what happens after you send it.
- [API docs](https://studio.watermelon.sh/docs): Documentation for Watermelon Studio's public read-only JSON API: endpoints, error format, and Markdown content negotiation.
- [Privacy](https://studio.watermelon.sh/privacy): What this site collects, what our host records, and how email correspondence is handled.

## Case studies

- [Medesk](https://studio.watermelon.sh/work/medesk): Healthcare SaaS, Dashboard. Stack: React, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, OpenAI.
- [Bionis](https://studio.watermelon.sh/work/bionis): Health & Wellness, Dashboard. Stack: Next.js, TypeScript, Python, Supabase, LLM Agents.
- [Capitalio](https://studio.watermelon.sh/work/capitalio): Wealth & FinTech, Dashboard. Stack: React, TypeScript, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Tailwind CSS.
- [Lexigent](https://studio.watermelon.sh/work/lexigent): LegalTech, AI Assistant. Stack: React, TypeScript, Python, FastAPI, Claude API, Vector Search.
- [Revtrack](https://studio.watermelon.sh/work/revtrack): Sales & RevOps, Analytics. Stack: React, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse.
- [Tallie](https://studio.watermelon.sh/work/tallie): FinTech & Accounting, Web App. Stack: React, TypeScript, Go, PostgreSQL, Temporal.
- [Vertics](https://studio.watermelon.sh/work/vertics): Workforce Management, Analytics. Stack: React, TypeScript, Node.js, ClickHouse, Tailwind CSS.
- [Watchman](https://studio.watermelon.sh/work/watchman): Cybersecurity, Dashboard. Stack: React, TypeScript, Rust, Kafka, TimescaleDB.

## Contact

- New projects: hello@watermelon.sh
- Existing work: support@watermelon.sh
- Book a 15 minute call: https://cal.com/vanshpatelai/15min