Boutique software, built with care.
Capturing Illumination is a small studio designing and shipping refined products across mobile, web, and TV. If you have an idea worth building well, let's talk.
— How we work
A small studio, deeply invested.
Product design
We shape ideas into products people actually enjoy using — with restraint, taste, and a sense of humor.
Modern engineering
Next.js, React Native, TypeScript, and Supabase — the stack we trust to move fast without breaking things.
Long-term partners
We build for founders and teams who want a studio that shows up, listens, and stays in the room.
— Selected work
What we're shipping.
The 509 Loft
A community platform for a real Pilates studio.
The full digital home for The 509 Loft in Nine Mile Falls, Washington — a marketing site introducing the studio and its class offerings (Private Mat, Reformer, Small Groups, Duets), plus a member area with a filterable exercise library, personal progress tracking, and a dashboard that keeps clients moving between visits.
- React
- TypeScript
- Tailwind v4
- Supabase Auth + Edge Functions
- shadcn/ui
Once Upon Us
Your family, your voice, your stories.
Personalized bedtime stories for children — AI-generated and narrated in the parent's own voice. Safe, magical, and uniquely yours, so kids still hear the people they love reading to them, even on the nights they can't be there.
- React
- Vite
- Voice cloning
- AI storytelling
HomeBaseTV
Live news dashboard for Apple TV.
An always-on command center for your television — real-time headlines, weather, markets, sports, and streaming news channels. Designed to feel calm, useful, and at home on the big screen.
- tvOS
- Swift
- Next.js
- Vercel
MellowMiles
Drive with peace of mind.
A privacy-first driving companion for mindful drivers. Log emotions, watch a live stress gauge, and reflect on trips in a supportive, trauma-informed environment. The iOS app tracks the drive; the web dashboard visualizes routes on an interactive map with a time-synced scrubber over emotion, stress, and safety-event data.
- iOS / SwiftUI
- Android / Compose
- Next.js
- Supabase
- Stripe (StoreKit 2)
- HERE / MapLibre
- Sentry
SkyWatch
An open, community-powered drone-tracking network.
Weatherproof solar-powered sensor nodes passively listen for the FAA Remote ID broadcasts every drone over 250g is now required to transmit, mesh over LoRa, and stream detections to a live map. No cameras, no jamming, no active scanning — just listening to what drones are already announcing about themselves. First applied use case: wildland fire air-operations awareness.
- Raspberry Pi
- ESP32
- Meshtastic / LoRa
- FastAPI
- Supabase + PostGIS
- MapLibre
- Kotlin / Jetpack Compose
ARIA
The expert in the room when there is no one else.
Adaptive Response Intelligence Assistant — a fully offline, voice-first personal AI built for grid-down, network-absent scenarios. Runs on a rugged Android tablet with swappable SD-card knowledge packs (trauma medicine, pharmacy, small-engine repair, translation, and more), backed by a Mac "home base" and a phone "go bag" that sync when they're back in range. When there's no internet, no 911, and no professional to call, ARIA is what's left.
- Android
- Local LLMs
- Voice I/O
- Rugged hardware
- Offline-first knowledge packs
Have an idea? Let's build it.
Whether it's a napkin sketch or a Series A launch, we'd love to hear about it.
Get in touch