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← Back to work— Case · No. a3f9c2b —VOL. I   ·   2024 → ongoing

seamview.

Sister · Dupless Inc.—Construction tech—Boulder & Pune—★ Flagship
BrandIdentityPitchUX/UIArchitectureBackendHostingStewardship
§ 01 / Brief

The challenge. Bring institutional rigor to an industry that runs on PDF.

Mega-construction is a multi-trillion-dollar industry whose deal-making still happens over scanned attachments and back-channel WhatsApp. Dupless Inc. — our sister company — saw a clean line through the noise: a single, FIDIC-aligned commercial intelligence platform, sold to the people who actually sign FIDIC contracts.

The remit, when we sat down in spring 2024, was modest in language and enormous in scope. Build the brand. Draft the commercial framework. Architect the pitch. Make the dashboard people the company would later sell to. Then host it. Then keep hosting it.

This is the kind of engagement most agencies decline because they don't have the back-half. Most dev shops decline because they don't have the front. We're built for it.

§ 02 / Approach

What we did, in plain language.

  1. Named the thing.

    Eleven candidate names, one shortlist of three, one decision made over a long lunch. Seamview — the working name became the real one.

  2. Wrote the commercial framework.

    Drafted the FIDIC-aligned MSA, the SoW template, and the pricing table the sales team would later use without alteration.

  3. Built the pitch.

    A twenty-eight-slide architecture for the founder-led pitch — typeset, illustrated, and rehearsed against the first six prospects.

  4. Designed the product surface.

    Dashboard system: contract registry, claims tracker, schedule overlay, FIDIC clause atlas. Type set in Helvetica, density tuned to terminal-grade.

  5. Wrote the back end.

    Postgres + Node API. Auth on Clerk, queues on SQS, document custody on S3 with KMS envelope keys. Audited by an external firm before launch.

  6. Stood up the hosting.

    Cloudflare front, AWS back, monitoring on Better Stack, runbooks in plain English. Three-region failover from week one.

  7. Stayed.

    Quarterly business review. The 2 a.m. number actually rings. We're now in the second year of stewardship — eight tickets last quarter, all closed inside an hour.

§ 03 / Selected shots

What it looks like.

— Fig. 01 · Pitch deck title spread, 2024 Q301
— Fig. 02 · Contract registry02
— Fig. 03 · Claims tracker, dark03
— Fig. 04 · FIDIC clause atlas04
— Fig. 05 · Brand specimen sheet05

// Visual placeholders. Production captures available under NDA.

§ 04 / Outcome

Where it stands. Eighteen months in.

Seamview signed its first three named contractors in Q1 2025 and crossed an annualized run-rate that the founder, in his quieter moments, will admit he didn't expect until late 2026. The dashboard is the artifact of the company; it is also the artifact of the sale.

We still hold the hosting. We still write the pitch revisions. The brand has held up through two seed extensions and one strategic raise without modification — which is the only test of a brand that matters.

Stewardship is in its second year. Quarterly review last week. No fires. The relationship looks the way the engagement model is designed to look.

§ 05 / Stack

What's running, and where.

— FrontNext.js · React 18Vercel preview, CF prod
— BackNode · Postgres 16RDS multi-AZ
— AuthClerk · SAMLSSO for enterprise
— QueueSQS · DLQIdempotent consumers
— StorageS3 · KMSEnvelope encryption
— EdgeCloudflareWAF · cache · DNS
— EmailPostmarkTransactional only
— MonitoringBetter StackStatus page · pager

qberi drew the brand, wrote the contract, shipped the product, and answers the phone. I have one number to call.

— Founder, Dupless Inc. · Sister-company disclosure on file

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