the team
monday planning
wednesday build
A design and development studio based in Ormoc City, Philippines. We build products, brands, and platforms for clients who want work that is honest, fast, and built to last.
No 60-slide decks. No committee sign-offs. Just a tight team that ships real things in real time.
the team
monday planning
wednesday build
Kodari started in 2019 with one frustration: too many studios were selling process instead of product. Clients were paying for discovery phases, research sprints, and alignment workshops — and getting Figma files that never shipped.
We built Kodari around a different premise. Every project starts with a five-day sprint. Every sprint ends with something testable. Everything we make either gets built or we have a specific, honest reason why it doesn't. No shelfware.
Six years later that discipline is still the thing that defines us. We work with startups, SMEs, and established businesses across the Philippines, Australia, and beyond — on products that range from healthcare platforms to aviation booking systems to AI-powered tools.
We are a small team by choice. Small means everyone who works on your project is someone whose work you can actually see.
Ormoc City, PH
Everyone here does the actual work. There is no account management layer, no client-facing team that hands off to a production team. You talk to the people building the thing.
Director of Ops
Oversees delivery across all active projects, manages the Philippines studio, and makes sure every sprint stays on track and on brief. Bobby is the reason nothing falls through the cracks.
Lead Design
Runs the design track from problem definition to production handoff. Fluent in both the neo-brutalist work we love and the clean SaaS interfaces our clients need. Does not use gradients on buttons.
Lead Dev
Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Node.js, and whatever the project actually needs. Has shipped everything from custom booking systems to real-time WebSocket dashboards. Allergic to technical debt left in the brief.
We run the same five-day sprint format on every project. Not because we lack imagination — because it works. Here is the rhythm.
Stakeholder interviews, user journey mapping, and one written problem statement that everyone signs off on before Tuesday begins. If Monday is unclear, the whole week is guesswork.
Paper sketches Tuesday. No Figma, no digital tools — volume over quality. Wednesday we vote on direction, lock the decision, and start building the prototype. One direction. No revisiting.
Five user sessions Friday morning. Compiled readout at noon. Go or no-go decision by 3pm. The sprint produces a direction, not a finished product — and that is exactly what it should produce.
These are not values we put on a wall. They are constraints we operate inside every day.
Work that sits in Figma is not work. We hold ourselves to a simple rule: if it is not live or in active production, it needs a specific, honest reason. "We ran out of time" is a reason. "It wasn't good enough" is a reason. "It just sort of stalled" is not.
We will tell a client when we think they are solving the wrong problem. We will push back on feedback that would hurt the work. We will say "this is going to take longer than we thought" the moment we know it, not the day it is due. Comfortable conversations produce uncomfortable results.
We take on fewer projects than we could fill. That is a deliberate choice. Every project we accept gets our actual attention — not a project manager's check-ins and a junior team's execution. If we say yes to your project, the people who said yes are the people doing the work.
We are based in the Philippines and we work with clients across Australia, Southeast Asia, and beyond. Distance has never cost a project quality or speed. What matters is process, communication, and the decision-maker being available when decisions need to be made. Everything else is logistics.
We work hard, argue about type choices, ship things on Fridays, and celebrate when things land well. Here is a look inside.
deep work mode
Not because we are dramatic about it. Because five-day sprints end on Friday and we like the feeling of closing the week with something real in the world.
friday readout
wednesday decisions
when it ships
thursday build
We are always looking for people who care about the work more than the job title. If that sounds like you, say hello.
We take on a small number of projects at a time. If you have something worth building, we'd like to hear about it. No forms, no NDAs on the first call — just a conversation.