Who we are

A studio set up to remove the handoff

Dcycle is a design and engineering studio developing the products of the AI era. One team carries a project from research through deployment, which is the whole idea, and the reason the work below looks the way it was approved.

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Our story

We started because the handoff kept eating the work

Most projects lose their best ideas somewhere between the Figma file and the pull request. Designers hand over. Developers reinterpret. Three sprints later the thing that shipped isn’t the thing that was approved, and the people who drew it are already on something else.

Dcycle opened in October 2022 to work the other way round. Our designers and engineers sit on the same project from the first research call to the deploy, so design decisions get pressure-tested against real constraints on day one, and what you approved is what goes live.

Since then it has been 60+ documented engagements across 7+ industries and 11+ markets. Some are four-year platform partnerships. Some are four-day fixes. We publish all of them, because a portfolio of six hand-picked projects tells you almost nothing about how a studio actually works.

The usual way

Design agency → Handoff → Dev shop

Scope drift, re-specification, nobody accountable

With Dcycle

Research → One team → Production

What you approved is what ships

“One team, from research to production.”

What we hold to

Six things we will not trade away

01

One team, not two vendors

Designers and engineers sit on the same project from research through deployment. There is no handoff to lose the idea in, and one invoice at the end of it.

02

What you approved is what ships

Interactions, motion and edge cases are developed by the people who drew them, so they survive into production instead of being reinterpreted three sprints later.

03

Documented, not curated

Most studios show six projects and call it a portfolio. Every engagement we have taken since October 2022 is published on the work page, including the four-day ones.

04

Constraints on day one

Design decisions get pressure-tested against the real stack, the real data and the real timeline before they are signed off, not after.

05

AI where it earns its place

We put AI into products when it does a job the product needs doing. It is a tool in the stack here, not a line in the pitch.

06

Accountable end to end

One team owns the outcome, which means when something is wrong there is nobody to point at and nothing to renegotiate.

Got something in the works?

Most projects start with one honest conversation

Whether it is a rough idea or a scoped brief sitting in a doc already, the first call is free, runs about half an hour, and ends with a straight answer on whether we are the right studio for it.

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How we work

The Dcycle Loop

Seven stages, then round again, because products aren’t finished, they’re maintained. Our mark has an arrow for each one.

01 Discover
    Walk through it on a call

    What we do

    Three Pillars of Dcycle, done properly

    Discovery, design and development: under one roof, on one timeline, with one point of contact.

    Pillar 01

    Discover

    Where the sharpest work starts. We look at your market, your users and what is already live, then turn that into a scope with a shape: what comes first, what can wait, and the number we are trying to move.

    Stakeholder Interviews Market & Competitor Research UX Audits Requirements & Scoping Analytics Review
    Explore discovery

    Pillar 02

    Design

    Research, UX and interface design for products people come back to. We start with who uses this and what number you are moving, not with a moodboard.

    Figma UI/UX Design Design Systems Prototyping Website Redesign
    Explore design

    Pillar 03

    Development

    React, Next.js, Node and Sanity, with AI woven in where it does a job the product needs doing: agents, model-backed features and automation, not a chatbot bolted on for the demo. The same team that designed it develops it, so the detail survives into production.

    React & Next.js Node.js Headless CMS (Sanity) AI Agents & Integration MVP & SaaS Development
    Explore development

    The journey so far

    Since October 2022, one engagement at a time

    Dcycle has been in continuous operation since October 2022, taking on documented work across industries and markets rather than a handful of hero projects. Here is where that has landed so far.

    Oct 2022

    Founded

    60+

    Documented projects

    7+

    Industries

    11+

    Markets

    The studio

    Who you will actually work with

    Kishan Bhatt

    Founder

    Kishan started Dcycle in October 2022 and has been on every engagement since. On your project he is the person who scopes it, the person who tells you what to cut, and the person you call when something is wrong, not a name on a pitch deck you never see again.

    Book half an hour with Kishan

    In his own words

    “The person who scopes it, the person who tells you what to cut, and the person you call when something is wrong.”

    Teams we develop for

    The people who came back

    Working with Dcycle was a game-changer for us. Their expertise in design and development helped us elevate our platform with a seamless, user-friendly experience.
    Divyesh PatelCMO, Gumlet
    Dcycle transformed our vision into a sleek, intuitive platform. Their attention to detail and technical expertise exceeded our expectations.
    Anthony UntaranCEO, WooMeNow
    Dcycle transformed our vision into a powerful fitness app with a seamless user experience, an engaging platform that users love.
    Pranjal AgrawalFounder, NextRep

    Have something in mind?

    Tell us what you are developing, we’ll tell you straight

    Whether we are the right studio for it, what we would do first, and what we would cut. That conversation is free and takes about half an hour.

    Book a call hello@dcycle.design