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Creative ideas. Thoughtful products.

From what if.
To what’s next.

We turn business problems and promising ideas into beautifully built software.

Studio 8174 is an independent product studio. We build with clients and bring our own commercial products to life—with care for the experience, the architecture, and what comes next.

ONE STUDIO. TWO SIDES.

Products for our clients.
Ideas of our own.

Beautifully built. Beautifully architected.Strategy / Design / Development

01 / Selected work

Good thinking.
Real products.

Different problems. Different audiences. The same attention to what makes a product useful.

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Jessica Thinks · Marketing website

Studio product

Internal alpha

Jessica Thinks

A project-aware AI workspace exploring how ideas, sources, and decisions can stay connected as a product takes shape.

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Queste · Marketing website

Studio product

In development

Queste

A community passport platform connecting local places, participating businesses, and the people discovering them.

02 / What brings you here?

There’s more than one
place to start.

01

An idea worth exploring.

Find the useful core of your idea, work through the unknowns, and shape a first version worth putting in front of people.

02

A problem worth solving.

Turn a fragmented process or frustrating workflow into software that fits the way people actually work.

03

A product ready to evolve.

Rethink an experience, extend a capability, or give an existing product a sounder foundation for what comes next.

See how we can help

03 / Our approach

Every decision
shapes the product.

The right question is as valuable as the next feature.

We bring product thinking, experience design, and technical architecture together from the beginning. We keep scope deliberate, use the right tools for the job, and get working software in front of people so the next decision has something real behind it.

Get to know our process

04 / Inside the Ideation Lab

Some ideas become products.
All of them teach us something.

A look inside our own explorations: what sparked them, what we’re trying, and why we choose to keep going—or take a different turn.

Step inside the Lab
IDEAS IN THE STUDIO

Curiosity with
a purpose.

Explore products we’re building and possibilities we’re considering.

Explore the gallery

A place to begin

Bring your napkin.
Or your beautifully messy problem.

An early idea, a workflow that needs rethinking, or a product ready for its next chapter. Let’s talk about what you have in mind.

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