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Websites that arrive.
Marketing sites, landing pages, design systems. The kind of work that loads quickly, holds attention, and makes a brand feel like a place you want to be.
Studio · Est. 2024Now brewing 3 projects
We brew soft software
for teams who dream out loud.
Senecafe is a small studio for web, AI, and custom software. We design products that feel like first light — warm, considered, and faster than you'd expect from something this pretty.
28+
Shipped products
14d
Avg first draft
9×
Re-engagements
100%
In-house craft
Services · 03
Three things we do, and we do them slowly.
Small batches. Senior hands on every project. We say no often so the yeses can be excellent.
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AI with manners.
Agents, copilots, RAG, evals — the boring parts done right. We integrate models into your product so they feel like a colleague, not a chatbot.
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Software with a soul.
Internal tools, dashboards, and full products — engineered to last and crafted to delight. We obsess over the empty states and the keyboard shortcuts.
Capabilities · 11
A small menu, prepared to order.
Each capability is something we'd happily do for the next six months. Mix two or three for a full engagement, or pick one and let's start there.
Craft · 01
Pixel-honest interface design
Brand · 02
Type systems
Motion · 03
Soft motion
AI · 04
Agentic flows
AI · 05
RAG
Engineering · 06
Realtime, synced, offline-first
Data · 07
Dashboards
Strategy · 08
0→1 product thinking, in pairs
Integrations · 09
APIs & infra
Voice · 10
Voice & vision
Care · 11
Ongoing retainer
Process · 04 movements
How a project moves through us.
Four soft movements, roughly six to twelve weeks. No grand decks, no theatre. Just steady, visible progress.
— 01
Listen well.
A loose, generous first conversation. We learn the shape of what you want before we talk about how.
Discovery callBrief shapingReferences & dreams
— 02
Sketch fast.
A flurry of ideas — wireframes, prototypes, motion studies — narrowed to one direction worth committing to.
Lo-fi prototypesVisual explorationOne clear direction
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Brew slow.
Heads-down craft. Daily builds, weekly demos. We work in small batches so the seams never show.
Design + build in tandemWeekly demo FridaysPlain-English updates
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Pour, then steward.
Ship, soft-launch, and stay. Most engagements roll into a quiet monthly retainer — care, not crisis.
Launch & QAAnalytics & evalsOptional retainer
— Senecafe, on the way we work
We believe software can be quiet. That a homepage can feel like morning light. That AI is most useful when it stops pretending to be a person. We're a studio, not a factory — and the things we make are softer for it.
est. 2024 · independentbrewed in small batches
Contact · 01 way
Let's brew something together.
Tell us about your project. We reply within a working day with honest thoughts — whether or not we're the right fit.
hello@senecafe.studioLisbon · RemoteMon–Fri · 09–18 WET