Services
Help with what you’re making.
App development, creative consultation, and music production, from one person who does all three. Tell me where your project is at. A rough description is enough to start.
01 — App development
From first idea to the App Store.
Product design
Shape an idea into a clear plan: who it is for, what it does first and how it should feel.
iPhone and iPad development
Native apps built with Swift and SwiftUI, including audio, drawing, on-device processing and 2D games.
Launch support
The App Store listing, privacy details, support pages and review submission, handled properly.
Ongoing care
Updates, fixes and new features after launch, as your app finds its audience.
Talk
A conversation about what you want to make and who it is for.
Plan
A clear scope and plan before building begins.
Build
Regular working versions you can hold in your hand, not just screenshots.
Launch
Through App Store review, and still around for what comes next.
02 — Creative consultation
The right perspective in the room.
For companies, organizations and creative projects in any sector. You don’t have to be in music or apps to need someone who thinks this way.
Sometimes what a project needs is someone outside it who can see it clearly, ask the questions nobody inside is asking, and bring the ideas that haven’t come up yet. Getting unstuck is rarely about working harder.
A lot of creative projects fail not for lack of effort or budget, but because no one said “this isn’t working” early enough, or knew what working would look like. If your creative output is boring you, it’s probably boring your audience too. That’s fixable, and sooner is better.
03 — Music and production
For records that deserve more than competent.
Song and record production
A great song can get lost in a bad production, and a great production can’t save a song that isn’t ready. I work with artists from early development to finished release, and I fix productions that exist but aren’t serving the song.
Mixing and mastering
A hybrid analogue and digital workflow focused on depth, balance and emotion, with a mastering chain that includes Chandler, SSL, Neve, Avalon, Manley and Pendulum. Records that sound finished on every format, and the way you imagined them.
Songwriting and co-writing
No production fixes a weak song. Co-writing from scratch, developing something that’s close but not landing, or writing for projects that need a strong song.
String and orchestral arrangement
Strings done well make a record feel enormous. I write the parts, and can find the players and run the session.
Scoring and composition
Original music for film, podcasts, games, branded content and more. A brief, a cut or just a feeling is enough to start.
Location recording and ambisonic audio
Records made in rooms with real character, like a church or a barn, plus spatial audio capture for documentary, installation and gallery work.
Why one person
Someone holding the whole picture.
Most people you hire do one thing. When arrangement ignores the mix, or an app’s design ignores how people will actually use it, things get lost. Fewer handoffs means better coherence.
It’s also how Nearlight’s own apps get made. The Original Songwriting Adventurer came straight out of years of co-writes, and Curious Colour and Oh My Gods! came out of life at home.