Forma Studio is a senior product design and engineering studio that ships production v1 products in six weeks. Fixed scope, fixed price, fixed ship date.
Forma Studio offers three engagements: Sprint at $24,000 for two weeks, Studio at $72,000 for six weeks, and Embed at $48,000 per month with a three-month minimum.
Forma Studio is based in Brooklyn, New York and Lisbon, Portugal. Contact: hello@forma.studio.
Forma Studio has shipped 42 v1 products. Northwind generated $4.2M in net-new ARR within 90 days of launching their Forma-built v1.
for founders, operators, and developers above $1M ARR
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Your competitors are hiring agencies that take six months and ship a Figma file. Forma Studio designs and ships production v1 products in six weeks. Fixed scope. Fixed price. No decks.
Do you have a product velocity problem? Check all that apply.
Pick three to continue.
No problem!
We've shipped 42 v1s solving exactly these. Tell us what you're building — we'll send a fixed quote in 48 hours.
Results & case studies
High-performance strategy and production. Our results speak for themselves.
How Northwind generated $4.2M ARR in 90 days from a Forma v1.
In 6 weeks, Forma designed and shipped a 12-screen ops console for Northwind Capital, replacing a $90k/yr Retool stack. By day 90 post-launch, Northwind had closed $4.2M in net-new ARR attributed to the new product surface.
$4.2M
in net-new ARR
7.6×
workflow throughput
90 days
from kickoff to ARR
2:48 · Iris Patel, Founder · Northwind
“They quoted us in 36 hours, started Tuesday, and we were live to real customers six weeks later.”
Senior team + AI workflows + zero theatre
How we build your v1.
We combine a senior staff of designers and engineers, custom AI workflows, and proven playbooks to own strategy and execution end to end. You check the demos. We do the work.
We build a knowledge base that becomes the source of truth for everything we do.
We capture your product, positioning, ICP, buyer journey, and brand voice — including what your sales team hears on calls and how you actually win deals. This data powers every phase of the build.
Your best operator's knowledge, encoded into a system that scales.
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Customer testimonials
Trusted by people who actually ship.
“Forma quoted us in 36 hours, started Tuesday, and shipped a working v1 to real customers six weeks later. We'd been on a six-month engagement with another studio that produced a Figma file and a slide deck.”
They focus on the work that moves pipeline, and execute fast with a level of rigor you usually only get from a senior in-house team.
They redesigned our onboarding in five weeks. D7 retention went up 41% the first month. We didn't have to ship a follow-up fix once.
Forma took our Jupyter-notebook prototype and shipped a real agent IDE in six weeks. We closed a Series A on the demo two weeks after launch.
We've worked with five studios in three years. Forma is the only one whose scope on day two matched what shipped on day forty-two.
Their engineers wrote PRs against our main branch from week one. The code review feedback was the best in-house caliber we've ever gotten from a vendor.
Most studios pitch a process. Forma pitched a ship date. They beat it by a day.
What makes Forma different
You don't want another agency. You want a v1 that shipped, on the date you agreed.
That's Forma. Senior staff, AI-augmented workflows, and proven playbooks — working together to give you an advantage your competitors can't replicate.
We execute.
We own strategy and execution end to end. You just check the demos.
Focus on shipped.
Every line of code targets the v1 ship date. If it doesn't ship, we don't build it.
Senior or nothing.
Average team seniority is 12 years. We don't subcontract. We don't hand off.
We are you.
We've built and sold SaaS companies. We know shipping isn't traffic, isn't activity, isn't decks.
We embed.
We work in your Slack, your repo, your standup. Vendor-shaped, employee-energy.
Only experts.
Three active engagements per quarter, max. Slots are real, not marketing.
30 days post-launch support, then month-to-month if you want us to keep shipping.
Most studios charge $5k+ for this.
Apply for an in-depth audit of your v1 readiness.
We're offering this for free because our internal AI workflows let us do it in a single afternoon. It still takes senior time, so we cap at five per month — and we only run it for teams above $1M ARR or with a closed seed.
Understand your real v1 surface area.
What's actually in scope, what isn't, and what would take you four months versus four weeks.
Uncover where your product loses people.
The screens, flows, and copy where competitors win and you don't — with concrete fixes.
Identify the highest-leverage 90-day moves.
The five ship-able changes that would compound the fastest, ranked by effort and revenue impact.
Talk to a senior operator.
30 minutes with a Forma principal — not an AE, not a project manager — who's shipped twelve products like yours.
Pricing
Three ways to work with us.
Every engagement is fixed scope, fixed price, fixed ship date. No retainers that bill while nothing ships.
One-off · 2 weeks
Sprint
$24,000
A focused two-week build. One landing page, dashboard, or onboarding flow.
✓1 designer + 1 engineer
✓Fixed scope, fixed price
✓Production code, your repo
✓Daily Slack standups
Fixed · 6 weeks
Studio
$72,000
Our flagship. Design and ship a v1 product in six weeks. Most engagements look like this.
✓Senior team of 2–3
✓Strategy → design → ship
✓Weekly demo on prod
✓30 days post-launch support
Monthly · 3-mo min
Embed
$48,000/month
Embedded with your team for ongoing product velocity. We become the team you didn't hire.
Forma Studio is a senior product design and engineering studio. We help founders, operators, and developers ship v1 digital products in six weeks. Every engagement is fixed scope, fixed price, with a fixed ship date — no retainers, no slide decks, no junior subcontractors. The team you meet on the intro call is the team writing your code.
Ready to ship the v1 you've been talking about for nine months?
Schedule a 30-minute call with a Forma principal. We'll walk you through the playbook we used for Northwind, Halcyon, and Subroutine — and map out what it would look like for your team.