Pro bono
Impact
Is your work unpaid or sliding-scale? Does it serve people who can’t pay? Then apply to the Impact program. We review applications as they arrive, and you’ll hear back within 10 business days.
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Mazaya Studios · An impact studio in Calgary
Impact pays the bill.
We score every grassroots project on the good it does. Score high enough and we build it pro bono. Everyone else pays the rate.
A grassroots build costs $0. It is paid in impact.
It usually starts as half a sentence.
A sign-up page your campaign needed last month.
The app your customers keep asking about.
That’s enough to start.
02 / The problem
Most ideas stall before anyone writes a line of code.
There’s no budget. Or there’s no developer. Or the quote comes back and the start date is months away. So the idea sits in a notes app, and every month it waits there it gets a little easier to forget. Grassroots groups probably hit this wall hardest, because their work usually doesn’t pay.
03 / Who builds it
One studio, two ways in.
For hire
Client
Everyone else hires us. Mostly that means web and mobile apps. We also help teams set up AI coding agents, and work as a fractional CTO.
See services04 / The plan Step 1 of 3
You get a written plan first.
You read the spec, fix what’s wrong and sign off. We write down every decision too, so nothing gets guessed.
04 / The plan Step 2 of 3
Then it’s built in parallel.
We build each piece on its own track, all at once. The work moves fast, and you can watch it happen.
04 / The plan Step 3 of 3
Nothing reaches you broken.
Every change has to pass automated checks and a review before it lands. When we’re done, the code is yours. So are the spec and the decision log.
- lint
- types
- tests
- build
- review
- land
05 / Proof
You’re scrolling through one right now.
We built this page. It’s real-time 3D, running in your browser right now. Write-ups of past products go up one at a time, once we’ve checked every claim against the code that shipped it.
06 / Your turn
Your idea is next.
Tell us what it is and roughly when you need it. A rough budget helps too. If your work is grassroots and nobody’s paying for it, apply for pro bono instead.