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Lisbon · Software Studio · Est. 2024

We build software at the speed of thought.

Make It Digital is an AI-native studio in Lisbon. We pair senior engineers with AI to turn ideas into shipped product in weeks, not quarters.

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Most software is slow to build because the loop between idea, code and feedback is slow. We shortened it. AI does the heavy lifting; our engineers keep the taste, the architecture and the judgement.

01 — What we do

A studio, not a body shop.

01

Product Engineering

Web and mobile products built end to end, from schema to pixel. Clean architecture that survives contact with real users.

  • Django & Python
  • FastAPI
  • React & Next
02

AI Integration

LLM features that actually ship: assistants, RAG, agents and automation wired into your product and your workflows.

  • LLMs
  • RAG
  • Agents
03

IT Consulting

Pragmatic technical strategy. We audit, plan and de-risk — then stay to build it with your team, not just hand over a slide deck.

  • Architecture
  • Audits
  • Roadmaps
04

Rapid Prototyping

An idea to a clickable, deployable prototype in days. Test with real users before you commit a quarter of runway.

  • MVPs
  • Spikes
  • Validation

02 — How we work

AI-native, from the first commit.

Our advantage isn't a tool — it's a loop. Every step is instrumented so we go from conversation to something you can click, fast.

  1. 1

    Frame

    A short, sharp discovery, written up as a spec with OpenSpec: the problem, the acceptance criteria, and what is out of scope. We agree on it before a line of code gets written.

  2. 2

    Prototype

    AI-assisted, we get something real in front of you within the first week — clickable, deployable, honest about trade-offs.

  3. 3

    Iterate

    Tight loops. We ship to a live environment continuously and let feedback — not opinions — steer the next move.

  4. 4

    Harden

    Tests, observability, CI/CD and docs. We leave you with software you can own and a team that can run it.

Read how we work with OpenSpec
The stack we build with

03 — Why teams pick us

Senior craft. Startup speed.

2–4 wks Idea to first release
100% Senior engineers
AI-native Built into every loop
Lisbon Working worldwide

“We treat every engagement like it's our own product. Ship early, learn in public, iterate until it's right.”

— Pedro Silva, CEO & Founder

04 — Journal

Notes from the studio.

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Spec first: how OpenSpec speeds up our engineering

Why we start every change with a short spec, how we work with OpenSpec day to day, and what it does to our delivery speed.

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