Founded 2016

Good products begin with good decisions

Faculty is a product studio with standards. We shape ideas into products — and see them through to the last detail — for founders who want to get it right.

Location Boulder, CO 40.0150° N 105.2705° W
Elevation 5,430 ft 1,655 m
Local time
Address 3200 Carbon Pl Ste 101 Boulder CO 80301-6135
Our products

We’re founders

Studioworks

Invoicing and client management for creatives and freelancers.

Schoolcase

A smart assistant that helps families stay on top of school and activities.

Matter

Neuroscience for longer, healthier, happier lives. $26M raised.

Our clients

We’re partners

Samsung Samsung ecommerce
Client 01 · Samsung

A global solution for regional markets

Helped Samsung architect and build a global ecommerce platform, and rolled it out to dozens of countries, establishing a direct relationship with consumers for the first time.

Scope
Architecture · Platform · Ecommerce
Result
Direct-to-consumer platform at global scale
Keybase Keybase Book
Client 10 · Keybase

Making cryptography click

Scope
Strategy · Narrative · Security
Result
Acquired by Zoom shortly after launch
Simply Framed Simply Framed
Client 06 · Simply Framed

Architecture that became the business

Scope
Architecture · Ecommerce · Product
Result
The system they still run on
The Faculty Sprint

Let’s build yours

One product. Five weeks. Yours.

You bring the vision. We bring the judgment. Five weeks later, you have something real — grounded in decisions that will hold up as you grow.

Investment
$55,000

5 weeks · 1 product

Availability
  • Jul 2026taken
  • Sep 2026taken
  • Nov 2026open
Apply for a Sprint →

For longer engagements,
hello@faculty.com

What’s included

A real product, not a prototype

A working product — focused, functional, and ready for customers. It won’t have every feature you imagined. It will have the right ones.

The product is yours
Full ownership, no licensing, no equity. Take it anywhere.
Deployed on your infrastructure
We set you up on your own AWS account. Your server, your data, your costs — typically $100/month or less to start.
Customers can use it
We don’t ship demos. The sprint ends when something is live and working.
How we work
  1. Listen firstCustomers, constraints, what matters most, and what can be left out.
  2. Decide togetherScope and priorities set before a line of code is written. Preserve the essence, not the scope.
  3. Build to shipDesign and engineering on the same team, day one to handoff.
  4. Hand off cleanCode, docs, and infrastructure are yours.

“Faculty helped us reach a much wider audience at exactly the right moment. The work was beautiful, and the impact was real.”

Chris Coyne — Cofounder, Keybase

“Faculty designed and architected a system that became foundational to how we operate.”

Dara Deshe — Founder & CEO, Simply Framed
Faculty Standards

How we think

Three short guides on what good work is, how to do it, and how to express it. We reference them often. So do our peers.

Good Work Best Practices Style Guide
Correspondence Faculty · Boulder, CO

Working through an idea? Let’s talk.

Faculty works with a small number of clients at a time. If you want a second opinion before you commit, write to Chris directly.

A short note about what you’re building, where you are, and what you’re trying to figure out is a good place to start.

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Or see the three ways to work with Faculty →

Studio
3200 Carbon Pl Ste 101
Boulder CO 80301-6135
Founded
2016
Principal
Chris Shiflett
Availability
November 2026