We build softwarepeople reach forat the momentit matters.
An independent studio designing and building consumer software — one considered product at a time.
The studio belief
Most software is assembled. We compose it — slowly, deliberately, in service of one question worth answering well.
We work in small numbers and long arcs. Fewer products, made with more care, until the detail disappears and only the feeling remains.
PocketPinch
“Know before you buy.”
A purchase-affordability companion for iOS — one honest number, at the moment it matters.
Pocket Pinch wasn’t a one-off.
A second product is already in build — same discipline, a different everyday question.
Still just a notebook and a hunch. Too early to say more than that.
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What we do
Four disciplines, kept under one roof.
- 01
Product strategy
Finding the one question a product should answer, and the discipline to ignore the rest.
- 02
Interface design
Composition, type and motion that feel inevitable — designed before they are built.
- 03
Engineering
Native, fast and trustworthy. The craft you don't notice because nothing gets in the way.
- 04
Brand & narrative
A voice and a world around the product, so it reads as singular from icon to launch.
Twin-founded
Yaw Owusu Sr. & Jr.
The founders
Ntafo Studios is run by twin brothers, not a boardroom.
Yaw Owusu Sr.
Product & strategy. Finds the one question worth building an entire app around.
Yaw Owusu Jr.
Engineering & infrastructure. Makes sure the honest number shows up in under a second.
We were started on a simple conviction: the best consumer software feels less like a tool and more like good judgement, quietly on your side. Growing up as twins, we spent a lifetime finishing each other’s sentences — these days it’s pull requests. That standard is hard to reach by committee, so we keep the team at two and the surface area smaller.
Vision
A future where the software in your pocket tells you the truth before you need to hear it — not after.
Mission
Build small, focused tools that give a straight answer in the moment — not another dashboard to maintain.
— Yaw Owusu Sr. & Yaw Owusu Jr., Co-founders