The studio

Forty-eight people who would rather make one great thing.

IRONLIGHT is an independent studio with three offices and no growth targets. We stay this size because it is the largest a team can be while still arguing productively in one room.

Studio floor · 41 Bond Street, New York

01 / Story

We started in 2014 because the agencies we had worked for kept selling process instead of judgement.

Rhea and Jonas met on a rescue project — a fintech rebuild that had already burned two vendors and eighteen months. They fixed it in eleven weeks with four people, and realised the difference was not talent. It was that nobody in the room was protecting a billable hour.

Twelve years later the shape is the same: small senior teams, fixed scope, one accountable lead. We have turned down more work than we have taken, which is the only reason the work stayed good.

2014

2014

2014

founded in New York

3

3

3

studios, one team

0

0

0

outside investors

02 / Milestones

Twelve years, deliberately slowly.

2014

2014

Two people, one rescue project

IRONLIGHT opens above a bakery on Bond Street with a single client and a borrowed projector.

2017

2017

First international recognition

Awwwards Site of the Day for the Paceline launch, followed by three more inside a year.

2019

2019

Lisbon studio opens

Eight people, mostly engineering, chosen for the timezone overlap with both coasts.

2022

2022

Singapore studio opens

A five-person team covering APAC clients and the logistics practice.

2026

2026

Forty-eight people, 140 launches

Still independent, still under fifty, still turning work down.

03 / How we behave

Four rules we actually enforce.

Written in 2015, edited twice since.

Judgement over hours

We are paid for the decisions, not the time. If something can be answered in a week instead of a month, we say so.

01

Craft is a business decision

Detail is not decoration. It is the difference between a product people tolerate and one they recommend.

02

Say the hard thing early

Bad news does not improve with age. We raise risks while they are still cheap to fix.

03

Leave it maintainable

Every engagement ends with documentation, tests and a team that can carry it without us.

04

04 / People

The people you will actually work with.

and 43 more across three studios

New York

Rhea Lindqvist

Founder & Creative Director

Lisbon

Jonas Feld

Principal Technologist

Lisbon

Amara Silva

Design Director

New York

Tobias Reyes

Engineering Director

Singapore

Margaret Osei

Managing Partner

05 / Inside

Quiet rooms, long attention spans.

Two meeting days a week. The rest is for making things.

Friday critique, New York

Sketching a routing model

06 / Studios

Three rooms, one studio.

New York

EST


Headquarters · 26 people

Lisbon

WET


Engineering & design · 14 people

Singapore

SGT


APAC & logistics practice · 8 people

Next project

Let’s build the thing they’ll copy.

Tell us what you’re working on. You’ll hear back from a principal, not a form, within one business day.

IRONLIGHT

A digital agency in New York, Lisbon and Singapore. Building products, brands and growth engines since 2014.

IRONLIGHT

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