What industries does DVLP build for?

Legal is our first focus, with Legal Intelligence built for personal injury, immigration, and Social Security disability practices. PM Intelligence for operations teams is in development for 2026. We also take on custom AI builds for specific workflow challenges.

Where is DVLP Studio located?

DVLP Studio is based in Los Angeles, California. Founded by Robel Mengistu and Lissa Prudencio, both UCLA graduates. We work with clients globally and operate remote-first.

Vertical AI Studio · Los Angeles

Generic AI is built for everyone.
We build for someone.

Q: What does DVLP Studio do?

DVLP Studio is a vertical AI studio. We build private AI tools tailored to specific industries. Our first product is Legal Intelligence, a private AI copilot for high-volume law firms. We also build custom AI tools and digital products for select clients.

Q: How is DVLP different from a generic AI agency?

We don't build generic AI tools that vaguely fit every industry. We pick an industry, learn the work, and build a tool around the real day-to-day. Legal Intelligence is trained on each firm's own documents and case files - it knows YOUR firm, not law in general.

A studio building private AI tools for the industries that need them. Two products live. Selective client work for everything else.

See Our Products How we work

Legal Intelligence · Live in Beta

PM Intelligence · Building for 2026

50+ projects shipped

Built for the teams that need it most

Personal Injury Firms · Immigration Practices · Social Security Disability · Boutique Litigation · High-Volume Practices · Operations Teams · Enterprise PMOs ·

How We Work

Tools designed for the work. Not the demo.

Four steps from first conversation to live product. Every tool we ship goes through the same process — because shortcuts produce demos, not products.

Learn the work

Interviews with the people doing the actual job. Their vocabulary, workflows, the things that go wrong. We learn your work before we design anything.

Design the system

Workflows mapped, screens drafted, edge cases tested. You see high-fidelity mockups before we write a line of code. Nothing built blind.

Build around the work

Tailored AI trained on your data, not a generic wrapper. Workflows shaped around how your team operates. Integrated with the tools they already use.

Ship and stay close

Beta users get direct access to our team. Feedback shapes what gets built next. The tool keeps getting sharper. The work keeps getting easier.

Why a Studio, Not Another Startup

Most vertical AI is built by engineers who've never sat with the people doing the work.
Most industry software is built by insiders who've never shipped a product.

We're a studio of designers and engineers who learn the work first. Then we build. That's the differentiator. It's also the only one that matters.

Our Products

Built for one job. Done exceptionally well.

We don't build generic tools that vaguely fit everywhere. We build private AI that knows your team, your work, your industry.

Live in Beta

Legal Intelligence

A private AI copilot trained on your firm's own documents and case files. Built for personal injury, immigration, and Social Security disability practices.

Find any document instantly, search past cases

Draft from your firm's existing templates

Generate marketing content from real case work

Explore Legal Intelligence

Coming 2026

In Development

PM Intelligence

A private AI copilot for project managers. Standups, sprint planning, status reports, and stakeholder updates — automated from your existing tools.

Auto-generated weekly status reports

Blocker detection before deadlines slip

Native Jira, Asana, Linear integration

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Digital Studio Services

The studio behind the tools.

Before we built AI products, we shipped 50+ websites and platforms. That client work is how we got sharp at understanding industries from the inside. We still do select client work.

E-Commerce & Shopify

Custom Shopify builds, headless commerce, DTC brand launches. Mobile-first, conversion-tuned, ready to scale.

Web Apps & Platforms

Full-stack Next.js and React applications. Marketplaces, SaaS platforms, client portals. Wireframe to production.

Marketing Websites

WordPress and custom HTML for law firms, professional services, and growing brands. SEO-optimized from day one.

AI Integrations

Add AI to your existing product. LLM integration, document processing, chatbots, automation pipelines.

Brand & UX Design

Brand identity, UI design, UX strategy. We design before we build. High-fidelity mockups before code.

50+

Projects shipped. Every one delivered on time. Every one still running.

See our work →

The Studio

Builders who got tired of watching teams waste time on bad workflows.

DVLP Studio was founded by Robel Mengistu and Lissa Prudencio in Los Angeles. We met at UCLA, partnered at the UCLA coding bootcamp, and started building digital products for clients in 2020.

After 50+ projects, the pattern became obvious. Smart people kept doing work that AI could do. So we started building tools instead of just websites. Legal Intelligence is our first. PM Intelligence is in development. We're based in LA, work with clients globally, and ship every two weeks.

Work With Us See Our Work

Robel Mengistu

Co-Founder · Engineering

Full-stack engineer and AI architect. Leads product systems, infrastructure, and client engineering. UCLA.

Lissa Prudencio

Co-Founder · Design

Design lead and client strategist. Drives UX, brand, and the client relationship from brief to launch. UCLA.

Questions

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We're a vertical AI studio. We build private AI tools tailored to specific industries. Our first product is Legal Intelligence, a private AI copilot for high-volume law firms (personal injury, immigration, Social Security disability). We also build custom AI tools and digital products for select clients.

We don't build generic tools that vaguely fit every industry. We pick an industry, learn the work in detail, and build a tool around the real day-to-day. Legal Intelligence isn't general legal AI. It's an AI trained on YOUR firm's documents, templates, and case files.

Legal is our first focus, specifically high-volume practices: personal injury, immigration, and Social Security disability. PM Intelligence for operations teams is in development for 2026. We also take on custom AI builds for specific workflow challenges in other industries.

Pricing varies by firm size and scope. Beta users get pricing locked in for life. Custom AI builds and digital products typically run $15K to $80K depending on scope. Best next step is a 30-minute call to discuss what you actually need.

After a 30-minute strategy call, we typically scope and propose within 3 business days. If we're a fit, work starts within 2 weeks. Most projects run 4 to 8 weeks with bi-weekly demos.

DVLP Studio is based in Los Angeles, California. Both founders are UCLA graduates. We work with clients globally and operate remote-first.

Generic AI is built for everyone.We build for someone.