Senior craft, AI speed, and Design Thinking.

A studio of senior designers and engineers shipping AI-native products from Kansas City, Guadalajara, and beyond.

Geeks·Sporting KC·Chiefs·Cooking·Digital Nomads·Tech talks·Women in Tech·MomPreneur·Coffee lovers·WordPress GDL·Late-night builds·Bilingual·F1 Sundays·Pet parents·AI dreamers·LATAM proud·

-11+ Years building

digital products

-105+ Products

shipped

-4+ Countries

on the team

2–3× Faster than

traditional agencies

Our story

We've been building digital products for over a decade.

The App Chefs started as a Kansas City web and mobile agency with a simple belief: great design and engineering, done together from day one, produces results that neither discipline achieves alone.

Over 12+ years, we've built for startups, enterprise clients, nonprofits, and government agencies. Our team spans Kansas City, Latin America, and Asia — letting us move fast without sacrificing quality. We also proudly organize the WordPress Guadalajara community.

Today, we're evolving. AI has fundamentally changed how we work — Cursor, Claude Code, and AI design tools let us deliver 2–3× faster than traditional agencies, helping founders build the next generation of AI products.

Our first office · Pre Kansas City!

WordPress GDL · We organize the community!

Figma Config 2024 · Where craft meets community!

Apple Vision Pro · Adopted into our workflow

Our values

What we believe in.

Design Thinking first

Every engagement starts with understanding the user, the goal, and the constraints — before a single pixel is placed.

AI-augmented, human-led

We use every AI tool available to move faster — but strategy, craft, and quality judgment are always human.

We're part of your team

We don't just take a brief and disappear. We collaborate, push back when needed, and treat your goals as our own.

Affordability without compromise

Our distributed team lets us offer senior-level talent at rates accessible to early-stage companies.

The team

The chefs behind the kitchen.

Distributed senior craft. Kansas City, Latin America, Asia — one studio, every time zone.

Kansas City · USA

Ashok Amaran

12+ years building web and mobile products. Leads client strategy, AI integrations, and engineering architecture.

Strategy, Full-stack, Swift, React Native, AI Workflows

Guadalajara · MX

Maryl Gonzalez

10+ years across front-end, product design, and design engineering. Leads brand systems, UI craft, and AI-augmented front-end.

Design Thinking, Agile UX, Front-end, AI-augmented

Colombia · LATAM

Mario Villamizar

Electronics & Communications Engineer building scalable iOS and React Native apps with Swift, Objective-C, and Node.js. 9+ years shipping creative, client-focused mobile solutions with us.

iOS, Swift, React Native, Node.js, MongoDB

Pakistan · ASIA

Syed Farhan

Turns websites into lead-generating machines using AI and automation. 10+ years building AI-powered WordPress systems that capture leads, follow up automatically, and convert visitors into customers.

WordPress, AI Automation, AI Agents, Web Design

Join the team

Open roles · Designers & Devs

We're always open to talented people who share our values. AI-fluent designers and engineers especially welcome.