Default to open
We share what we can — code, decisions, dead ends. Transparency isn't a policy, it's the working style.
About Hopline
More than a consultancy. A workshop.
Hopline is a studio and an open workshop. We sit alongside your team, build the thing with you, and leave you able to keep going long after we've gone.
Who we are
A small team that builds in the open.
Hopline is a brand-new studio — but its two founders aren't new to this. Between us we've spent 7+ years building apps, design systems and the platforms underneath them. We started Hopline to do that work the way we always wished we could: with you, not at you — same standups, same repo, every decision shared. No black boxes, no big reveals.
We work across the stack — apps, AI/ML, design systems and the platforms underneath. And we share what we can: the reusable, generic pieces we build tend to find their way back into the open. Quietly, because it's the right thing — not as a headline.
And we measure ourselves by what's left behind. The best outcome is a team that's more capable than we found it — clean code, real docs, and people who know how it all works. In a quiet way, we're trying to do ourselves out of a job.
By the numbers
A few honest figures.
7+ yrs
Combined experience
2
Founders, hands-on
100%
Code you own
1 day
Typical reply
What we value
The handful of things we won't trade away.
We don't have a wall of slogans. Just a few principles that quietly shape every decision, every commit, and every handoff.
Craft over flash
We'd rather ship something quietly excellent than loudly average. The details are the work.
Leave it better
Every engagement should leave your team more capable than we found it. We're trying to do ourselves out of a job.
Stay curious
We're builders who never stopped being learners. New problem, new craft — that's the fun part.
Ways to work together
Pick the shape that fits where you are.
However we engage, the working style is the same — embedded, open, and aimed at leaving your team better than we found it.
Fixed scope
A clear brief with a defined outcome and timeline. Best when you know the shape of the thing and need it built well.
Best for: A new product, a rebuild, a launch
Retainer
An ongoing slice of our team, month to month. Best for steady momentum and evolving roadmaps.
Best for: Continuous delivery & iteration
Embedded team
We join yours — same standups, same repo, same Slack — and level everyone up while we ship together.
Best for: Scaling a team without losing the plot
How a project goes
From fog to shipped, in the open.
No black boxes and no surprises. We work in small honest increments, so you feel the thing taking shape and own every decision along the way.
01
Discover
We dig into the problem with you — users, constraints, what 'good' looks like. No deck theatre, just a shared, honest picture of where we're headed.
02
Shape
We turn the fog into a scoped plan: the smallest thing worth building first, sequenced so you see value early and often.
03
Build
Designers and engineers in the same room, shipping in short loops. You're in the repo and the standups — it's your product, not a black box.
04
Ship
We launch it for real: performant, accessible and instrumented, with the handoff docs your team actually needs.
05
Open
Where it makes sense, we open-source the reusable parts — so the next team, and yours, starts further ahead.
The founders 
Two builders, hands-on.
Hopline is small on purpose. You work directly with the people doing the building — no account managers, no hand-offs.
Bishwajeet Parhi
Co-founder · Frontend & apps
Frontend architect who builds robust web and cross-platform apps — React, TypeScript, React Native, Flutter and Kotlin Multiplatform — with a pixel-perfect eye and a growing focus on agentic AI workflows.
Khushiyant Chauhan
Co-founder · ML & platforms
Senior ML engineer and open-source contributor — machine learning, neural architectures and high-performance tooling like tensor serialization and gRPC, with research stints across CERN, NTNU and LBNL.
Let's work together
Like the way we work? Let's build something together.
Tell us where you're headed. We'll help you shape the road and walk it with you — and you'll keep everything we build along the way.