Brand & product design
Identity, interface and the design system underneath, so the tenth screen looks like the first.
- Identity systems
- Product UI
- Design systems
- Art direction
Senpai Studio
Where creativity meets technology.
A creative technology studio. We build and ship continuously, and run small experiments in between, the kind that push what creativity and technology can do together.
The portfolio ↓Most studios pick a side. We never saw the point.
The people who can imagine it and the people who can ship it are usually in different buildings, billing you twice to misunderstand each other. Here they are the same team.
01 Capabilities
What we can actually do.
Engineering
Software that runs a business, built to stay running. Deployed and kept alive on infrastructure we own, not rent.
- Web applications
- iOS and Android apps
- Internal company systems
- APIs and integrations
AI systems
AI built into how a business actually runs, not bolted on the side. From a single automated task to an operating system a whole team works from.
- Autonomous agents and workflows
- AI-native products
- Operational systems for a whole business
- Automation across a company
Film & story
The part most technical teams skip. Work nobody understands does not travel, and work that does not travel changes nothing.
- Documentary film
- Photography
- Essays and field notes
- Launch content
02 How we build
The standard doesn't shrink with the scope.
- 01
We say no more than we say yes.
If it does not fit four weeks honestly, we tell you what does.
- 02
The team that ships it is the team you talk to.
No handoff to a name you never met.
- 03
You can fire us and keep everything.
Code, designs, accounts, domain. Yours from day one.
- 04
Exclusions are written down first.
A scope that hides its edges is a trap, not a scope.
- 05
Small work gets the same discipline.
Four weeks means launched to real users, not a demo.
03 What's on offer
Three ways in.
- Get Seenfrom ₦250,000One week
- One-page site on your domain
- Google Business Profile, created and verified
- WhatsApp Business with a catalog
- Instagram and Facebook made consistent
- Handover so you can run it yourself
Businesses customers cannot find yet.
- FlagshipLaunch₦2,500,000Four weeks
- One core flow, scoped to your idea
- Accounts and an admin panel
- Works on every phone, no app store
- Live on your domain, with the launch kit
- AI built in where it earns its place
An idea that needs to exist, not a proposal.
- Product TeamMonthly retainerOngoing
- The same team keeps building
- Monthly roadmap review
- Collective specialists as needed
- We bring ideas, not just hands
Products that need a partner, not a ticket queue.
04 How it works
Four steps.
- 01
Tell us
A rough idea is enough.
- 02
We scope it
One conversation, fixed before anything is paid.
- 03
We build
Real progress weekly. No end-of-project reveal.
- 04
You launch
Live on your domain, or your money back.
05 The portfolio
Selected, not automatic.
Client work is the client's. The portfolio is a separate thing we choose into.
- In-house
Ideas we back with our own time and money.
- The Collective
Member ideas that earn a slot.
- Open programmesComing
Apply with an idea.
MarkShare
Markdown publishing and sharing. Write, publish, share.
Client workSitterFind, a vetted babysitter marketplace, live in the US.
06 Who you get
A small core, and a bench behind it.
Studio runs deliberately small. When a project needs a skill the core does not have, it comes from the Collective, not from a job board.
Founder
Henry Ikoh
Product designer, systems architect and full-stack engineer, working at the intersection of social impact and technology.
The bench
The Senpai Collective
A vetted community of designers, developers and creatives with a contribution record you can actually check. Specialists join a project when it needs them and step off when it does not.
senpaicollective.com07 Questions
Before you ask.
- Who builds my product?
- The Senpai core team, with Collective specialists where the project needs them. Nothing goes to strangers.
- Does my project go into your portfolio?
- Only if you want it to. Client work is yours: you pay for it, you own it, and it stays private if you say so. The portfolio is a separate, selected thing.
- What is not included in Launch?
- Native app-store apps, and third-party costs: domain, paid tools. Anything past the agreed scope is scoped as new work.
- How does the guarantee work?
- Scope agreed in writing before we start. If we miss it in four weeks, you get your money back.
- Is the AI real, or a slide?
- Where it earns its place: agents, automation inside a workflow, friction removed for a real user. We do not add it to pad a list.
08 Start