A studio of
engineers who
ship on paper too.
FirstPoint Studios was founded in 2026 by two engineers who met building research projects, and decided to turn the same rigor on commercial work.
We were tired of
studios that hand it off.
We met as two engineering students who kept ending up on the same research papers and the same late-night builds. By the time graduation came we'd shipped four real products for real clients — and watched every one of them get handed off to a cheaper agency that didn't understand the system.
So in early 2026 we started FirstPoint as an experiment: a studio that would own the work from brief to operations, and refuse to take on a project we couldn't support ten years later. Four real apps in the stores later, we're still holding that line.
We're two co-founders. We bring in specialists per project — and every engagement is led by one of us end to end. If you hire FirstPoint, you get FirstPoint, not a junior-offshore sandwich with a senior-partner photo on the proposal.
Four non-negotiables.
We wrote these down on day one. They've decided who we hire, who we fire, and which projects we've walked away from.
Own the outcome.
We don't do "we built it, you maintain it." If it ships on our watch, it runs on our watch — for as long as you want us there.
Write it down.
Decisions live in documents, not memory. Our retros, specs, and design briefs are written, archived, and searchable for you too.
Say no early.
If the brief is wrong, we say so in week one. We'd rather kill an engagement in week two than deliver something we don't believe in.
Compound rigor.
Every project makes the next one better — we ship internal tools, templates and research back into the studio every quarter.
Two founders.
Two disciplines.
Every engagement at FirstPoint is led by one of us — from the first brief to the release that ships.
Aditya Nittala
Leads engineering, platform and AI. Has three peer-reviewed papers in applied ML and systems, and ships the products end to end.
Priyanshu Bawse
Leads robotics, firmware and field-deployed systems, and runs our drone and agri-sensing research track.
Studio at a glance.
The numbers that actually matter — operating model, team, geography, and how to reach us.