For artists
Gesso
A portfolio site and studio back office in one. Artworks, sales, collectors, commissions, expenses, and a public site on your own domain. Artists pay a subscription and Gesso takes no cut of their sales.
Talkie Ventures, LLC
A product studio that ships. Our own apps, and yours.
Talkie builds and runs software for families and artists. The same process that ships those products is for hire: fixed scope, fixed price, and a date on the calendar.
- 5 products live or in early access
- 1 engineer, with coding agents
- 0 hourly billing
Products
Software we build, run, and answer for.
Each of these is a real business with real customers. They are also the proof behind the consulting: every one was designed, built, deployed, and operated by the same person you'd be working with.
For families
Latitude
Agreements between parents and kids, written down and visible to both. Freedom requests, milestones, pre-agreed consequences, and a road back. The Christian edition ships as Latitude; the inclusive edition is Raise & Relate.
For parents of iPhone kids
Curfew
Parental controls built on Apple's Screen Time that do what the built-in version won't: multiple restricted windows a day, day types, earn-time rules, and one-tap changes from your own phone.
For Tonies families
StoryBox
Custom audio stories for Tonies boxes. An original script, a distinct voice per character, performed with expression over music, delivered as an MP3 you can load tonight.
For teenagers
DayForge
Habits, streaks, and XP for a teenager, built by a dad and his son. Nothing leaves the phone unless you share it. Pairs with Curfew so earned time can mean something.
Productized consulting
Pick an outcome. Get a price and a date.
No hourly rates and no open-ended statements of work. Each engagement has a defined deliverable, a fixed price, and a fixed timeline. You own the code and the accounts from day one.
5 business days
Prototype Week
$7,500
A deployed, clickable prototype of one product idea, with real data where it matters. Good for pitching, user testing, or deciding whether to build the real thing.
- Scoping call and a one-page spec on day one
- Working web or iOS prototype at a shareable URL or TestFlight link
- Short written readout: what we learned and what the full build would take
30 days
Product Sprint
$30,000
A real, launchable version one. Accounts, billing, the core workflow, a marketing page, and production hosting. The same way every product above was built.
- Weekly demos on a live URL from week one
- Auth, payments, email, and monitoring wired and tested
- Deployed to your own cloud accounts, with a runbook
- Two weeks of post-launch fixes included
10 business days
AI Feature Build
$15,000
One AI feature inside your existing product, built on Claude. An agent with tools, a summarizer, a classifier, or a chat surface, with the guardrails and evals that make it safe to ship.
- Tool-use agent or pipeline integrated into your codebase
- Eval set and prompt tests you can keep running
- Cost, latency, and failure-mode review before launch
5 business days
Agent-Ready Team
$9,000
Your engineering team shipping with coding agents, without the mess. Repo conventions, agent instructions, hooks, review gates, and CI, set up on your real codebase with your real developers.
- Codebase audit and agent instruction files that match how you work
- Hooks, permissions, and review workflow for safe autonomous runs
- Two half-day working sessions with the team
Keep going
After a sprint, most clients want the same engineer around. The retainer is two days a week, month to month, at $12,000 per month. Cancel with 30 days' notice.
How it works
Four steps, no surprises.
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A 30-minute fit call
You describe the outcome. We say honestly whether one of the offers fits, and which one. If none does, you'll hear that too.
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A one-page scope
What's in, what's out, the price, and the delivery date. You sign it and pay half up front. The rest is due on delivery.
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Weekly demos on a live URL
Everything is deployed from the first week. You see progress in the product, not in a status report.
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You own all of it
Code in your repository, infrastructure in your accounts, a runbook that explains how it runs. Nothing is held hostage.
The studio
One engineer, a lot of leverage.
Talkie is run by Tyson Puetz. Every product on this page was designed, built, shipped, and operated by one person working with coding agents. That's the point of the consulting: you get the same speed, applied to your problem, with someone who has to live with the results of their own decisions.
Recent client work includes a coordinator CRM for a community nonprofit, built on Cloudflare Workers with email, document storage, and scheduled jobs.
What we build with
- Web
- Ruby on Rails, Next.js, Hotwire, Tailwind
- Mobile
- Swift and SwiftUI, Expo
- AI
- Claude tool-use agents, evals, prompt caching
- Infrastructure
- Cloudflare Workers, D1, R2, and KV; AWS; Railway; Kamal
- Payments and email
- Stripe, Postmark, Cloudflare Email
- Compliance
- COPPA-aware product design, privacy boundaries enforced in code
Start a project
Tell us what you want built.
A few sentences is plenty. You'll get a reply within one business day with a yes, a no, or a question.