Media Lantern is a product engineering studio founded in 2007. We build Web, mobile, backend, and AI systems, with senior hands involved from the first call to production.
Daylight Commander is a modernization of the traditional two-panel file management app we all know and love, with a blazing-fast Rust-backed UI, support for downloading Google Photos, and much more.
We helped a nationwide home-care provider "flip the script" on an inefficient charting duty by implementing an AI-driven call-out to clinicians. Collecting charting data while en route to their next visit eliminated "dead time" stops and increased capacity by 35%.
We led an ambitious startup through the POC, MVP, and then Launch phases for a matchmaking platform that helps connect athletes with professional coaches to receive a variety of services, including live calls, video analysis reviews, and various team-oriented functions.
We worked closely with a defense contractor to AI-enable their proposal pipeline, tripling the number of SBIR and STTR opportunities they qualified for and automating a strategic development roadmap to continue growing the list year over year.
ChangeLoggy is a simple home-grown tool that replaces the "Chat With Us!" floating buttons nobody likes with a simple "What's New" summary to help communicate new features and functionality to users and visitors.
Media Lantern offers one-stop shopping for strategic techology leadership, design, engineering, and post-launch support, but every project has different needs. The majority of our clients engage with us in one of three ways:
Custom web, mobile, platform, and AI development for companies that need senior hands on a real build. We build holistic solutions, from code to DevOps, analytics, admin tools, customer support, compliance, and more.
Recent work ↓Our senior engineers are never idle. When we aren't building apps for our clients, we're building them for ourselves. As part of our portfolio of work, we offer a growing catalog of apps and services designed, built, and supported in-house.
See our apps ↓Fractional-CTO engagements for small or growing teams, "Project CTO" packages that get you shipping without distracting from bigger priorities, and The Overhaul Lab, our AI transformation practice.
Meet the practice ↓Media Lantern takes web and mobile applications, backend platforms, and AI systems from architecture to production, with enterprise-grade scalability, security, and reliability from day one.
For a SaaS platform focused on white-labeling, we transformed a seven-step manual demo pipeline into a one-step, self-guided experience that provides instant gratification, turning cold leads into warm outreaches and reducing the average sales cycle from 71 days to 12.
To replace a primitive, spreadsheet-based tracking process, we built a proposal management platform with data mining capabilities to identify "near misses" and manage a dynamic development roadmap for future efforts, increasing the opportunities it qualified for by 30% within a year.
The same craft, pointed at our own ideas. Media Lantern designs, builds, and ships its own desktop apps, including PixiPile, live in the Mac App Store. Download one and judge the work.
Media Lantern's hotkey-driven photo sorter for macOS.
A keyboard-first, two-panel file manager for Mac, Windows, and Linux.
A calendar built for people who live in their keyboard.
A screen recorder for showing your work without a production crew.
Fractional and project-level CTO work for founders and executives who need senior technical judgment without a full-time hire. You work directly with senior leadership.
From startups to established firms, we can help you see IT as an investment with an ROI, not a cost center.
Even if you have (or are) a CTO, new projects can be distractions from your core mission. Let us lead your project to success while you stay focused on existing commitments.
Tired of "AI initiatives" that just bolt new tools onto old processes? The Lab helps rethink the process itself.
Your competitors are working with a green field while you're mired down with dead assumptions and legacy workflows. The Overhaul Lab helps you transform outdated processes and applications. Assessments start at $3,500 and provide actionable intelligence, not boilerplate reports.
Go to overhaullab.com (external)One conversation covers all three ways to work with us: a build you have in mind, a leadership gap you are trying to fill, or a problem you want a senior second opinion on. We will work out which one fits on the call. It goes straight to senior leadership at Media Lantern.
Rethinking how your company works with AI? That conversation starts at overhaullab.com.
A working session, not a sales pitch.
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