Two people do the thinking. More hands show up when a build needs them.

Onizuka Studio is deliberately small. That is not modesty about capacity, it is a decision about who does your work, and it is the reason there is never a handoff from the person who sold it to the person who builds it.

The audit is always us.

Every audit is performed personally by the two founders. Nothing is delegated, sampled, or handed to a junior analyst, because the entire value of the diagnosis is that it is done by people who know how the fix would be built.

Michelle

The layer people touch

Software, workflows, and the screens where work either happens or stalls. Reads the operation, maps the dependencies, sequences the roadmap.

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Michael

The layer it sits on

Servers, infrastructure, deployment, data, and integrations. Reads whether the recommended fix can actually be built, and what it would genuinely take.

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Capacity without a bench.

The development community we came up in is small, and after two decades in it you know who is good. Shops trade clients, cover each other’s overflow, and pull each other onto projects that outgrew one team. That network is how an impossible timeline gets met.

Nobody unfamiliar gets assigned to your systems because we needed to keep someone billable.

Development

The DNN community

We work with people like Daniel Valadas, a full stack developer on the DNN leadership team, and others from the platform’s core community. These are people who maintain the thing rather than just build on top of it.

That matters on a build the same way it matters on an audit. When something behaves strangely at the platform level, the person who can answer it is usually someone who wrote that part.

Design

Graphic and UI/UX designers

Brand and identity, interface design for an application somebody uses every day, and the visual craft on anything customer-facing.

Sometimes AI is all you need, and we build that way often. Sometimes a project needs a human touch — a brand somebody has to feel, an interface people live in daily, a look that has to be yours and nobody else’s. For those, we have designers.

Specialists

Whatever the job actually needs

The network is not only developers. Daniel also runs a commercial photo editing business for advertising work. When a project needs something outside the two of us, it is usually someone we have already shipped with.

Staffed in days, not weeksNo hiring cycle, no recruiter, no ramp-up on someone who has never shipped with us.
No bench cost in your invoiceYou are not funding idle capacity between projects, which is most of what an agency rate covers.
People we have shipped withEveryone brought onto an engagement is someone whose work we have already relied on.
Founders stay on itMore hands does not mean a handoff. The people who diagnosed it remain on the build.

Small is the feature, not the caveat.

You are not hiring a firm and hoping for a good team. You are hiring the two people whose names are on it, and they are the ones who show up. When more is needed, it arrives without a stranger being introduced to your systems.

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The same two people who wrote this would run your audit.

Nine questions free, or around ninety for $995 with the sequenced roadmap.

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