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 technology 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.
We took a sports coaching startup from proof of concept to launch, building the web and mobile apps that connect athletes, families, and clubs with pro, college, and elite coaches. Athletes upload game film for frame-by-frame analysis, book live one-on-one sessions, or reach a coach on call before a big game, and an AI companion helps coaches turn what they see into development plans, pregame briefs, and family updates.
Read the case →Home health nurses were losing 20 to 40 minutes after every visit to parking-lot charting. We replaced it with a guided voice interview that calls the clinician as they pull away, already knowing the patient and care plan, and files structured, compliant notes before they reach the next home. Clinicians averaged 2.1 more visits per day with the same staff and routes.
Read the case →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.
Read the case →Every quote and spec request at this machining and fabrication shop went through the same senior engineering queue. We replaced it with AI triage that sends clean repeat orders straight to manufacturing, routes genuinely complex work to the engineer best suited to it, and flags upsell and package-bid opportunities for sales, each with a brief so nobody starts cold.
Read the case →Instead of matching one load at a time, we built matching around each driver's trajectory, chaining loads into multi-leg circuits that cut empty miles and let the brokerage price whole routes instead of single legs. The driver profiles it builds let the brokerage commit to contract freight with carrier-level reliability, without owning a truck.
Read the case →We designed a layer across a national retailer's loyalty, point-of-sale, online, and delivery systems that infers what each customer is building from what they buy, flags likely contractors who never joined the Pro program, briefs desk staff on who to call and what to recommend, and replaces broadcast promotions with per-customer offers at every checkout.
Read the case →The same craft, pointed at our own ideas. Media Lantern designs, builds, and ships its own apps. Download one today.
Media Lantern's hotkey-driven photo sorter for macOS.
PixiPile details →A keyboard-first, two-panel file manager that also frees up Google Photos storage.
Daylight Commander details →Add a "What's New" widget to your site with one line of code, then just write and publish.
ChangeLoggy details →Email and calendar in one streamlined app, with stronger defenses against spam and phishing.
Almanac details →A fast, focused database client for Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, SQLite, and more.
Dowser details →Cloud storage, sync, and sharing for your files, across every device you use.
fileSpot details →One workspace for AI-driven development, with your coding agents, projects, and reviews side by side.
Porthole details →Even serious dev teams like to have fun, so we built a slop tracker that keeps score as new apps pile into the sloppiest categories we've seen lately.
confab.sh details →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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