Ship the AI product your competitors keep demoing.
Codelucent is an AI design studio in Kansas City and Tokyo. Napkin to App Store, prompt to production: mobile apps, LLM systems, payments, cloud. We run our own apps, so we know exactly what breaks at 2 a.m. and how to build so it doesn't.


Teams and products we have built with
Three ways in. One bar: it has to ship.
We eat our own cooking.
Seven products we design, ship, and run ourselves. Marketplaces, fintech rails, proptech, health, and vertical SaaS, live on iOS, Android, and the web.
Akiya Listings
Find and buy abandoned homes in Japan.
Scuber
Lost it in the water? Get it back.
iOS and Android apps launching soon
Paystack
Payment rails built for agents and marketplaces.
Thrive AI Health
Your all-in-one AI health coach.
Numbers, not adjectives.
The whole AI stack. No handoffs, no hand-waving.
From the first prompt to the production runbook. Pick one capability, or let us compose the whole product.
A production RAG pipeline.
Click a stage to see the code behind it.
Connect to your docs, tickets, warehouse, and databases. Versioned ingestion pipelines re-embed only what changed.
// Versioned ingestion with source-version tracking
export async function ingest(source: Source) {
const docs = await source.fetchSinceLastRun()
for (const doc of docs) {
const chunks = chunk(doc, {
strategy: source.strategy, // semantic | fixed | layout
size: source.chunkSize,
})
await embed(chunks, {
model: "voyage-3",
cache: true,
version: source.embeddingVersion,
})
}
}Already have AI in production? Let's find out if it's lying to you.
We audit retrieval quality, faithfulness, safety, cost, latency, and drift on your real traffic, fix the worst offenders, and wire evals into CI so the fixes stick.
Explore evaluationsTwo studios. One standard. Your time zone covered.
Four steps. Zero mystery.
Discovery
We map your users, data, workflows, and constraints, and agree on what "good" looks like in measurable terms.
Design & architecture
Flows and interface, retrieval shape, model routing, infra, guardrails, and the eval plan that proves it.
Build & evaluate
Weekly demos. Every iteration gated by evals on your data, not vibes or vendor demos.
Ship & harden
Store launch or production deploy in your cloud, observability and cost controls wired, runbooks handed off.
“We were able to scale our tech operations with a fraction of the cost and time it would have taken to build in-house.”
Got an AI idea? Bring it. We'll tell you the truth about it.
30 minutes with a founder: what to build, what to skip, and what it should cost. No pitch deck, no account manager.

