Built in Karachi.Shipping globally.Senior only.
Full-stack digital studio
AI, software, and growth — under one roof, with senior people on every call. We work with founders and operators who want a partner that ships, not a vendor that bills.
Why we exist.
We built brainiac/studio because the agency model we kept seeing was broken. Senior people sold the work. Junior people did it. The 'senior team' on the call disappeared the day the contract was signed. The deck looked great — the code shipped didn't.
We do the opposite. The person on your call is the person on your code. The same engineer who scoped the build leads the build. The same designer who pitched the system designs the system. There is no second team. There is no junior team. There is one team — ours, and yours.
We work across AI, software, and growth — because most real problems don't live inside one of those buckets. A great product needs all three. So we built one studio that can ship all three, with the same people, on the same engagement.
We're based in Karachi. We work with teams in San Francisco, London, Dubai, Singapore, and Riyadh. Cost-efficient. Time-zone friendly. Senior. We measure ourselves on whether you'd hire us again — not on whether we billed you twice.
— founder & ceo
Naveed Kandohi
Naveed Kandohi.
Founder & CEO · brainiac/studio · Est. 2015
Naveed Kandohi has been building in tech since 2005 — before most frameworks existed, before the cloud was the default. Twenty years of deep craft give him something most cannot buy: he has seen every layer break, every architecture fail, and every pattern succeed.
He founded brainiac/studio in 2015 with one conviction: build a studio where senior practitioners own every engagement. He writes in every major language, ships at every layer of the stack — and still leads from the code, not a boardroom.
Beyond engineering, Naveed is a complete business mind. His expertise in sales, client networking, and marketing strategy means he doesn't just build products — he positions and grows them. He knows how to find the right audience, close the right deals, and build relationships that compound over years.
— expertise across
"The person on your call is the person on your code. That's not a promise — it's how we built the studio."
Signal. System. Scale.
Signal
What we're trying to communicate. The mark as broadcast. The work as message. Every project ships a clear point of view.
System
How we build. Frameworks over hacks. Foundations over features. Every system we ship can be read, reasoned about, and extended after we leave.
Scale
What we deliver. Systems that compound. Growth that holds up. Outcomes you measure 18 months from now — not just at launch.
Senior. Small. Built to grow carefully.
Naveed Kandohi
Founder & CEO
15 years building software and growth programs across fintech, e-commerce, and SaaS. Founded brainiac/studio in 2024.
Engineering
12 Senior Engineers
AI, full-stack, mobile, and infra. Backgrounds at Stripe, Shopify, Klarna, AWS, and Careem.
Design & Strategy
5 Senior Designers
Product designers and design engineers shipping in code. Backgrounds at Figma, Linear, IDEO.
Growth
6 Senior Marketers
SEO, paid, and lifecycle leads with portfolios across DTC, B2B SaaS, and fintech.
Operations
Studio backbone
Project management, finance, and the unglamorous work that makes the work possible.
Trusted Partners
Extended network
When we need a specialist, we work with a vetted network of senior practitioners we've shipped with before.
Six principles.
Senior only
The person on your call is the person on your code. We don't scale down talent for margin.
No vendor coordination
One studio, every capability, one point of contact. We don't subcontract — we staff.
Fixed-scope, milestones
We invest the time upfront to scope properly. The price reflects the work. No hourly surprises.
Documentation by default
Every system we ship comes with docs your team needs to keep ownership without us.
Built to hand off
We work to make ourselves replaceable, not indispensable. Long-term partnership is earned, not contracted.
Measured on outcomes
We report against the metrics that matter to you — not sessions, deliverables, or timelines.
Honest about scope.
We've passed on six-figure contracts because the work didn't pass our values check.
- — noGambling & betting
- — noAdult content
- — noPredatory lending
- — noCrypto rug-pulls
- — noPolitical disinformation
- — noWeapons & defense
- — noAuthoritarian surveillance
- — noAnything designed to mislead