Turn a manual workflow into working software, or get an unfinished product into production. Prodmake connects product decisions, design, engineering, and release under one agreed scope.
Engagements start from $12k
Kuan’s client and employment experience spans offline work, mobile releases, enterprise risk, and national public services. Each case explains the work and its context.
A business workflow that needs software. A product that needs to reach production. Start with the work you need taken off your hands, then agree the smallest useful outcome.
Requests arrive in one place, approvals happen in another, and someone keeps a spreadsheet up to date. You know the process. You need it to work without that chain of manual handoffs.
What you can commission
A working system for one agreed process, including the user experience, permissions, records, integrations, and an operator’s way to handle exceptions.
Relevant experience
Scoutbase: Kuan’s client / fractional CTO work connected worker-facing software, offline synchronization, backend systems, and ongoing operation.
See the Scoutbase workYou have a prototype or an existing codebase, but the release depends on unfinished integrations, manual steps, or knowledge held by one person. Adding features won’t resolve that.
What you can commission
A bounded build or completion scope carried through testing, deployment, and handover, with the release responsibilities written down.
Relevant experience
Lane Technologies: in an employed engineering role, Kuan built mobile release and delivery infrastructure later cited in acquisition due diligence.
See the Lane workThe prototype proves an idea can be shown. Production proves customers and the business can depend on it.
Prodmake closes that gap. The deliverable is not more code; it is a product that can carry real responsibility.
Prodmake owns the connected work from product definition through the systems that keep it running.
Where customers and operators use the product
Product decisions become one coherent experience across every customer surface.
What makes every interaction work
Each action passes through shared rules, data, and integrations instead of isolated features.
What keeps the product reliable after launch
Every release is deployed, observed, administered, and fed into the next product decision.
A clear scope can go straight to Build or Rescue. Use paid Definition only when important unknowns prevent responsible scoping. Add ongoing operation when a live product needs it.
Starts with: Market knowledge, evidence, and constraints
Turn what you know into explicit users, workflows, UX, data, architecture, acceptance evidence, and the first production scope.
Outcome A written production plan
This is not generic discovery or a paid estimate. The plan must be useful and inspectable on its own.
Starts with: Agreed decisions or a product that has stalled
Implement or repair the interfaces, backend, integrations, administration, deployment, and launch path.
Outcome Software running reliably in production
Starts with: A live product and real usage signals
Observe, administer, repair, and improve the system as customers and operations reveal what matters next.
Outcome A product that keeps improving
Each commitment stands on its own. A useful plan, an accepted production outcome, or bounded ownership of a live product—not a mandatory three-stage package.
From $12,000
Most complete scopes: $35,000–$75,000
The outcome is clear enough to scope. Commission the build, completion, or repair through deployment. The minimum covers one tightly bounded outcome.
$12,000–$15,000
Only when material decisions remain unresolved
Buy a written production plan when workflow, scope, or technical unknowns prevent a responsible build proposal. It is useful whether or not Prodmake builds it.
$15,000–$25,000 / month
For a live product that needs ongoing ownership
Agree monthly priorities, capacity, response expectations, and operating outcomes. This is not unlimited development or 24/7 incident response.
Planning ranges in USD, not fixed quotes for an entire product. The proposal sets the scope, staffing, start conditions, payment milestones, and acceptance criteria. Larger work is staged.
Decide
Scope and tradeoffs
Review
Human checkpoint
Operate
Launch and observe
Kuan leads each engagement across product, design, and engineering. The proposal sets out his direct work, any additional specialists required, and responsibility for review, launch, and agreed support. Prodmake remains your delivery partner.
Founder-led delivery
Kuan
Founder and technical lead
13+ years in production systems
Scope, tradeoffs, and technical decisions stay written and visible. Roles, specialist involvement, and acceptance are agreed before delivery begins.
You should not have to infer progress from hours logged or screenshots. Agree the evidence, decisions, and handover that will let you judge the work.
AI-assisted research, implementation, and checks support delivery where appropriate for the project’s data and security requirements. They do not replace specialist expertise, human review, or agreed support arrangements.
Parallel execution. One line of responsibility.
Research, implementation, verification, and operating checks can run at once. Tradeoffs, acceptance, and release remain human decisions.
Selected products built by Kuan through Thinking Systems, a separate company. These show product and engineering capability, not commissioned client work.
Travel & location app
A private travel log for trips, maps, and country-day records.
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Focus & calm app
A visual breathing and focus tool for short, deliberate resets.
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Creative drawing app
A glow drawing application for animated light, color, and motion.
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AI reading app
A reading system for articles, documents, markdown, and video transcripts.
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Creative communication tool
A tool for animated greetings, invitations, and personal messages.
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Spatial puzzle game
A hex-grid logic game about blocking paths and saving penguins.
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Arcade action game
An offline neon arcade shooter built around orbital movement.
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You bring market truth. Prodmake turns it into connected product decisions, production software, and operating evidence.
Start with your current workflow or product, what is getting in the way, and the result you need. Then choose a fit call or continue in writing.