FAQ

The questions we get asked before the call

Everything we are usually asked about creative work, builds, cost, ownership and how projects run. If yours is not here, ask us directly and you will have an answer within 24 hours.

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Creative & brand

Strategy, identity, campaigns and production.

Are you a creative agency or a development company? +

Both, by design. Half of our team works on strategy, brand, campaigns, content and production; the other half designs and builds websites, platforms and AI. Most clients use both, run as one project.

Can you create a brand identity from scratch? +

Yes. Brand strategy, naming, logo and visual identity systems, typography, colour, tone of voice and guidelines, built to work on screens as well as in print.

Do you produce photography, video and motion in-house? +

Yes. Creative direction, shoots, editing, colour, motion graphics, animation and 3D product visuals, scaled to the channels and budget.

Can you run an integrated launch campaign? +

Yes. We concept one idea and carry it across film, social, paid media, out-of-home, email and the landing pages our developers build alongside it.

Do you use AI in creative work? +

Where it helps. AI speeds up concepting, versioning and localisation under clear art direction, and every output is reviewed by our creative team before it is published.

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Working with us

What happens before anything gets built.

Do you offer a free consultation? +

Yes. Every engagement starts with a free assessment call, and you leave it with a written view of scope, sequencing and a budget band. Take it to another agency if you like.

How quickly will you get back to me? +

Within 24 hours. Tell us what you are building and we come back with an architecture proposal and a timeline within one business day.

Will you sign an NDA? +

Yes, and we sign it before the first call rather than after it. You should not have to describe your product to us before the paperwork is in place.

Who owns the code and the intellectual property? +

You do. Every engagement includes 100% IP and source code ownership. You are never renting your own product back from us.

How do you decide what a project should cost? +

From scope, not from a price list. The assessment call ends with a written view of scope, sequencing and a budget band, so you can judge the number against what it actually buys.

Where are you based? +

Los Angeles, California. We work with clients across the Americas and beyond, and our delivery teams are recruited globally.

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Services

What we do, and what the words actually mean.

What services do you offer? +

Seven: mobile app development, web app development, UI/UX design, remote teams, CRM consultancy, managed cloud services and eCommerce development. Each one has its own page with the full scope on it.

How long will it take to build my mobile app? +

The time we take to build a mobile app varies. It can be between 3 to 9 months, depending on whether the app is simple or feature-rich.

What is a web app? +

A web app is a mobile application that you can access on the web. It allows users to perform actions over the Internet.

Are UI and UX the same? +

UI (user interface) refers to a website's aesthetics, such as the typography and color palette. UX (user experience), on the other hand, focuses on enhancing the user journey.

Can you provide consultancy for all CRM solutions? +

We provide consultancy for some of the most commonly used CRM solutions. They include Zoho, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and HubSpot Sales Hub.

Do you build eCommerce storefronts? +

Yes. Catalogue structure, search and filtering, cart and checkout, then the payment and shipping integrations behind them. We have also built held deposits, conditional releases, multi-party commission splits and subscription billing on live platforms, which is the same money path with different rules on top.

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Teams and delivery

How the work runs once it starts.

How does a project actually run? +

Four steps, every time. Initial discussion and research, strategy design and implementation, project execution and launch, then delivery and support. You sign off at every stage rather than at the end.

Why should I hire a remote developer? +

If you don't have the resources to hire an in-house employee, consider hiring our remote developers. Since we work on a project basis, you won't have to bear the expenses of onboarding or training.

Can you work with our in-house team? +

Yes. Our remote teams model embeds vetted engineers and designers directly into your workflow, standups and tooling.

What happens after launch? +

You get the finished product, the documentation behind it and a team that stays reachable long after handover. Several of our platforms are still receiving updates years after they shipped.

Can you take on a project that needs rebuilding every year? +

Yes, and we already do. The Festival of the Diaspora relaunches with a new host city, theme, speaker roster and ticketing every year, on a fixed conference deadline, and has done for five editions.

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Projects and technology

What we have built and what we build it on.

What industries have you worked in? +

Social platforms, peer-to-peer marketplaces, wedding and event technology, generative AI, nonprofit events and education. Our case studies cover all six.

What technologies do you build on? +

Most of our recent product work runs on Next.js, React, React Native, Node.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, PostgreSQL through Supabase, AWS S3 and Vercel. Our content and institutional sites run on WordPress with Elementor, Advanced Custom Fields and Gravity Forms, behind Cloudflare.

Can I see examples of your work? +

Yes. The work page has every project, and each one has a full case study behind it covering the brief, the architecture decisions, what shipped and the stack it runs on.

Do you work with generative AI? +

Yes. We have built an AI dubbing platform that clones a voice and lip-syncs it into 50+ languages, a prompt-to-video studio that assembles visuals, voiceover, captions and music in one pass, and AI planning tools inside an events platform.

Will I be locked into one AI or cloud provider? +

Not if we can avoid it. On Make Movie AI each generative service sits behind its own interface so a provider can be swapped without touching the core backend. We treat providers as replaceable components, because in that field the best model changes every few months.

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