[01] Studio86 / Team
Two people. Both of them answer.
There is no account manager here, and no queue you get put in. The person who quotes your project builds it, or sells it, and you have their email either way.
- Owns
- Client builds, the product portfolio, hosting, security, and everything that runs after launch.
- Works in
- TypeScript, Python, Node.js, Astro, Next.js, React, Postgres, Stripe.
- Reach him
- [email protected]
Andrew Davis
Co-founder. Development and security.
Andrew Davis writes the code. Client sites, the products Studio86 runs, and the unglamorous middle: deploy scripts, error monitoring, the Stripe webhook that has to be correct on the first attempt, because the second attempt is a paying customer without a license key.
Security is the part of the work he pays the most attention to. Every site and product we run is built with it in mind from the first commit, not patched in after something goes wrong. Studio86 hosts and maintains the sites it builds, so every shortcut taken on a client project is a shortcut he inherits a year later.
He picks the tools per project and keeps them plain: TypeScript and Node for most of it, Astro or Next.js for the sites, Python wherever it fits, and ordinary HTML wherever ordinary HTML is enough. The bar he holds himself to is whether somebody could open the repository in three years and follow it, mostly because that somebody is usually him.
- Owns
- First contact, scoping, quotes, invoicing, the social accounts, and hiring.
- Works in
- English and French, on the phone and in writing.
- Reach him
- [email protected]
Hayk Apinyan
Co-founder. Sales, marketing, and front-facing operations.
Hayk Apinyan is the other half of Studio86, and everything that faces outward is his.
Marketing and sales both sit with him, and so does the front of the business generally. If you have spoken to Studio86, you have spoken to Hayk. He runs the first call. What he writes down is what the project needs, which is frequently not how it got described to him, and the quote that comes back fits on one page. Then the work ships and he is the one chasing the invoice nobody answered.
He works in French and English. That matters more here than it would at most studios, because a good share of the client base is in Quebec and bilingual Canada, and those conversations get lost in English.
Every application through the careers page lands in his inbox. He answers all of them.
[02] How the work splits
- 01
There is no third person to be passed to
Neither of us hands a question sideways to somebody you have not met. If it is a build question it is Andrew, if it is a money or scheduling question it is Hayk, and you can tell which is which without being told.
- 02
The division is not decorative
Andrew does not want to write quotes. Hayk does not want to write deploy scripts. Both of those are true, and the studio functions because neither of us pretends otherwise.
- 03
Two people is a constraint we publish
We do not describe ourselves as a team of fifteen. It sets the wrong expectation about response times, and you would find out anyway on the first call.
[03] We are hiring
Three subcontract roles are open: sales, executive assistant, and social media. All three are remote, and all three need French and English.