An AI technology studio based in Brooklyn, NY.
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Who we are
The Brooklyn App Company is a two-person product studio run by Nick Gerard and Steven Layne.
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Nick Gerard
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Steven Layne
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We’ve been building apps, services, and AI tools together for the last decade—at Microsoft, Adobe, and as co-founders of a Google-backed AI analytics company that we led for five years.
We’re hands-on builders: we design, architect, ship, and scale the things we work on.
What we do
We help teams go from idea to production, or step into existing environments as a senior product + engineering partner.
We build:
- Web apps & services
- Full-stack applications, dashboards, customer-facing experiences
- Scalable APIs and backend services
- Mobile apps
- iOS and Android apps, from MVP to polished consumer products
- AI agents & workflows
- SMS, email, and web-based assistants
- LLM-powered flows that plug into your existing systems
- Internal tools & automation
- Custom tools that replace spreadsheets and manual processes
- AI-assisted workflows that reduce operational drag
We also offer:
- Codebase reviews & architecture audits
- Health checks on existing systems
- Pragmatic modernization and performance recommendations
- AI-first process design
- Workflow audits to identify what can be automated with AI
- Concrete roadmaps to save time and headcount without breaking what already works
How we work
We’re flexible, but most engagements look like one of these:
- Idea → MVP
- Take a concept from “note in a doc” to a live product.
- We handle product definition, specs, UX/UI, implementation, and launch support.