The name says most of it.

Tayo, the we that includes you

Filipino has two words for "we". Kami is the one that leaves you out, as in "we did this" when you weren't part of it. Tayo is the one that brings you in. Filipinos choose between them mid-sentence without thinking about it.

We could have called it Kami Labs. We build things with the people we build them for, so we didn't.

IO, input and output

The other half is the oldest idea in computing. Something goes in, something comes out, and the useful part happens in between. That's the service. You bring the input, we build the output, and you own it afterwards.

Put together, that's the job description. An app for anyone riding the MRT, a website for one accounting firm in Bulacan, an invitation page for one couple. We put the same care into all three. The person at the other end doesn't know or care how big their project was next to anyone else's.

Who we are

A small product studio in the Philippines. We build for other people, and we build and run our own apps. The second part matters more than it sounds. When you answer your own support emails for years, you learn what keeps software alive after launch, and client work gets that too.

What we take on, and what we turn down

We build things people use. The test is whether they're still using it a year later.

So sometimes we say no. We're not an agency with a bench to keep busy. If something you can buy off the shelf already does the job, we'll say so on the first call. If the idea is good but too big for a first version, we'll tell you which part to build first.

We want problems with a person at the end of them. Bring us one and we'll build it, keep it running, and hand it over.