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An engineer and a visual artist, on contract

What an agency promises, from the two people who actually ship it.

Francesco writes your software, Riccardo designs it, on one company contract. No account manager, no bench, no freelancer risk. Usually starting within two weeks.

“Since Francesco joined us, our throughput has gone up a lot, and we can finally keep up with what our clients ask for.”
Marek, CEO, Alpon Digital

Three ways to work with us.

Start small with a sprint, add a senior engineer to your team by the week, or hand us a defined build.

Start here01

AI Workflow Sprint

One or two weeks with your engineers on your own codebase. We set up AI coding tools with review and testing rules, then pair with the team until the new workflow sticks.

  • Workflow audit and setup in your repo
  • Pairing sessions with your engineers
  • A written playbook your team keeps

Fixed price, agreed upfront

02

Embedded Engineer

A senior engineer joins your team for 10, 20 or 30 hours a week and works through your backlog inside your repo, standups and Slack.

  • Weekly blocks you can scale up or down
  • Code review, tests and documentation included
  • Your tools, your process, your priorities

Weekly blocks, agreed upfront

03

Defined Build

A web app, mobile app or website built against an agreed scope, with fixed milestones and a documented handoff.

  • Scope and price agreed before work starts
  • A demo every week
  • Handoff notes your team can run with

Scope and price agreed before work starts

Not ready for a project? Book an hour on your codebase, architecture or AI setup.

Book an advisory call

Between a hire and an agency.

We have worked inside agencies and on our own. FREDD keeps the parts that worked from each.

Full-time hire

Time to start
Months of recruiting, typically
Who does the work
Your employee
Commitment
Salary, benefits, notice period
Contract
Employment
AI workflow
Depends on the hire

Agency

Time to start
Proposal, onboarding, then a team is assigned
Who does the work
Often people you haven’t met
Commitment
Retainers or project minimums
Contract
Company
AI workflow
Depends on the team

FREDD Studios

Time to start
Usually within two weeks
Who does the work
The two founders you talk to
Commitment
Weekly blocks or a fixed scope
Contract
Company contract and invoice
AI workflow
Set up for your team, and they keep it

Recent work.

Products we built and ran ourselves, and client systems where mistakes cost money.

FREDD's Web3 games and platform

Two Unity games and the platform behind them, built and run by FREDD. Francesco wrote the backend services and the ERC-721 minting and asset pipeline and led the engineering team, five people at peak. Riccardo made every character, world and interface.

Scope
Unity clients, backend services, minting pipeline, companion web
Our part
Backend, smart contracts, pipeline, all art and interface design
Read the case study
Realm Hero opening scene: monkey adventurers on a cliff path with the Realm Hero title over a floating-island landscape
Realm Hero opening scene

Fintech, on contract

Two engagements, two clients. For one, the Solidity contracts for a NAV-backed trade-finance tokenization on Avalanche, with Chainlink NAV verification, access controls and upgrade governance. For the other, a stablecoin card product on Reap's issuer rails: the mobile app, the website and the payment integration.

Stack
Solidity, Avalanche, Chainlink, Reap
Our part
Contracts, payment integration, mobile app, website
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Payment / issuerlive
IssuerWalletSettlement
Interface
System shape Contracts Rails Interface

How we start.

Four steps from the first call to work you can judge. You always know what is being delivered, by whom, and when.

  1. 01

    Intro call

    Twenty minutes on what you’re building, your team and your timing.

    A straight answer on whether we’re the right fit.

  2. 02

    Scope and proposal

    The format, hours or milestones, price and start date, in writing.

    A written proposal you can hold the work against.

  3. 03

    Pilot or first milestone

    A short first phase so you can judge the work before committing further.

    Working software and a decision point.

  4. 04

    Continue or hand off

    Keep going by the week, start the next phase, or take over with full handoff notes.

    Code, documentation and a clean handover.

Who you work with.

Francesco writes the code. Riccardo shapes the visuals. No account manager, no bench: the two people who scope your work are the two people who do it.

Francesco Trevisan, co-founder of FREDD StudiosCode

Francesco Trevisan

Co-founder, engineering

Writes the software: web and mobile apps, backends and smart contracts. Sets engineering teams up with AI coding workflows. Led a team of five at peak. Works remotely on European hours.

Riccardo Trevisan, co-founder of FREDD StudiosVisuals

Riccardo Trevisan

Co-founder, creative

Shapes how things look and move: 3D characters and worlds, visual design, interfaces and motion, including all the art in FREDD’s own games.

The visual side,
led by Riccardo.

3D characters and worlds, visual design, interfaces and motion. Everything here is from FREDD's own games.

Three monkey characters at different ages, from baby to elder, standing in rolling fog

StupidMonkeys evolution scene

Character, environment and lighting in one frame.

  • Realm Hero warrior class: a monkey character holding an ornate curved sword
    Character
  • Shinto clan emblem: a bronze relief of a monkey face under a torii gate, framed by rope
    Clan emblem

Questions before the call

Tell us what you're building.

Twenty minutes with Francesco. If we are not the right fit, you leave with a straight answer and a name or two of who might be.

  • No preparation needed
  • A straight answer on fit
  • A written proposal if we go ahead