CREW — ISTANBUL

The people behind Mafe Studio.

We are a small team in Istanbul. This page is about who we are and how we work.

CHAPTER 01 — HOW WE WORK

A few products, built end to end ourselves.

How we work

We make a small number of products and build each one ourselves, end to end: the design, the software and the AI.

Most of our budget goes into the product, not advertising. We don't try to grow a product until it genuinely does the job.

We talk directly to the people who will use our products: clinic coordinators, investors, people who train.

In areas like health and money we decide up front where the AI stops; a person always makes the final call.

We give a settings screen nobody opens the same care we give the home page.

If you have an idea or want to work with us, write to us.

Mafe Studio · Istanbul

CHAPTER 02 — THE FLAG

Not in the products; only here.

The flag

This flag isn't in our products or our ads. It only hangs here, on the team's page.

The Mafe flag: a swallow-tailed pennant with a compass rose cut out of it

CHAPTER 03 — TEAM

Open application.

Want to work with us?

We have no open roles. But if you found your way to this page and there's something you want to build, write to us.

Write to us

CHAPTER 04 — COLOPHON

A trace of vermilion.

Colophon

Visual language
The visual language draws on sixteenth-century Ottoman sea charts, the portolans: an ink ground, bone-white type, a trace of vermilion.
Typefaces
Instrument Serif, Geist, JetBrains Mono, served from our own server.
Privacy
This site doesn't call out to font services, ad networks or trackers.
Motion
If you've asked your device to reduce motion, all of it stops.
Place
Made in Istanbul.
For the curious