Isaac
Founder · Engineering
Scopes every project and stays on it. Architecture, AI systems and the awkward conversations about what not to build.
Home / About
The studio
Small team,
long-lived systems.
RetroAI has been building software since 2021, remote-first and deliberately small. We take fewer projects than we are asked to, and we keep the ones we take running.
60+
Projects shipped
since 2021
120+
Automations running
in production
14
Countries served
across 5 regions
99.9%
Avg. uptime
trailing 12 months
Who does the work
The people,
not the org chart.
We are engineers and designers who ship. Reach the founder directly on Telegram at @isaacar.
Product & Design
Interface · Systems
Design systems for dense operational software — the dashboards, queues and admin tools people stare at all day.
Engineering
Web · App · Platform
Senior full-stack engineers on Next.js, Node, Python and Postgres. No outsourced delivery team behind the curtain.
Automation & Ops
Pipelines · Uptime
Builds the pipelines and then keeps them alive: retries, audit logs, alerting and the monthly report.
History
How we got here.
Studio founded
Two people, contract web work, one office chair between them.
Automation practice
Clients stopped asking for pages and started asking for their manual work to disappear.
AI development
LLM applications, retrieval and agents — with evals attached, from the first project.
RetroAI
New name, same team. Four disciplines under one studio, operating what we ship.
What we believe
Four opinions we work by.
Small and senior
Four to eight people, all of whom write or design. The person on your call is the person doing the work.
Operate what we build
A studio that never runs its own output learns nothing. We stay on-call, so the design decisions have consequences.
Boring where it counts
Postgres, server rendering, queues you can inspect. We keep novelty for the parts of the product where it earns its keep.
Measured claims only
Every number on this site comes from a running system. If we cannot measure it, we do not print it.