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Boutique software studio · United States

Remarkable software,
made deliberately.

Drye designs and builds native apps, modern web products, and intelligent tools for teams that care how the finished thing feels.

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DRYE

Strategy → Design → Build → Launch

Independent by designNative appsModern webApplied AI

What we believe

Great software is not assembled from a checklist. It emerges when product judgment, visual craft, and engineering discipline share the same table.

Drye is the boutique development practice of Grand Cru Ventures LLC. We take on a small number of products and give each one direct, senior attention.

Capabilities

From first question
to shipped product.

One studio across the product lifecycle means fewer handoffs, clearer decisions, and a result that holds together.

01

Product direction

We turn a promising idea into a sharp product brief, a deliberate roadmap, and a launch plan grounded in real constraints.

Discovery · product strategy · prototyping
02

Native applications

Swift and SwiftUI products designed for the platform, hardened for review, and finished down to accessibility and store operations.

iOS · SwiftUI · App Store delivery
03

Web products

Fast, resilient websites and web applications with thoughtful systems behind them—not a template wearing your logo.

React · Next.js · TypeScript · Cloud
04

Applied intelligence

AI-assisted workflows and automation where they remove friction, with human control and privacy designed in from the start.

Agents · automation · evaluation

Selected work

Products with
a point of view.

Our own products are where we prove the standard: useful, private, carefully scoped, and built to ship.

Permit LogSupervised driving, thoughtfully recorded.
24.8hours logged

01 · Native product

Permit Driving Log

A privacy-first iPhone and Android companion for parent-supervised permit practice: drive logging, progress, sign study, and parent-ready records.

  • Native iOS + Android
  • Local-first privacy
  • Product, brand, engineering, release
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02 · Web platform

The $100K Challenge

Shared briefs, blind judging, scorecards, and a live competition board.

Visit live product ↗03 · Family R&D lab

The Drye Build Club

Two kids, one dad, blind judging, and a family culture built around shipping real software.

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How we work

Close collaboration.
Clear stages.

No mystery process and no disappearing into a build cave. Each stage ends with something concrete enough to test, challenge, or ship.

  1. 01 / Frame

    Find the real product

    Users, constraints, value, risks, and the smallest version worth making.

  2. 02 / Shape

    Make it tangible

    Flows, prototypes, technical choices, and a visual system with a reason.

  3. 03 / Build

    Engineer the experience

    Working software in short loops, tested against the product—not just the ticket.

  4. 04 / Launch

    Finish the whole release

    Accessibility, privacy, performance, store operations, deployment, and handoff.

Studio standard

The unglamorous details
are still the product.

01

Senior attention

The people making product decisions are the people shipping the work.

02

Small by design

A focused studio stays close to the problem and moves without layers of translation.

03

Privacy as architecture

Data minimization, permissions, and security are product decisions—not release-week paperwork.

04

Built to operate

Launch is the beginning. We plan for observability, iteration, support, and the next version.

SwiftUIKotlinReactNext.jsTypeScriptCloudflareVercelOpenAI

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Bring the hard part.
We'll help make it clear.

New products, important rebuilds, and focused collaborations are welcome.

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