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Commission an app as a gift for someone you love

The Build Studio at CEOism builds apps as gifts: you commission one for someone you love, we build it, and they receive a real, live product with their name on it. This is not a novelty, it is our home ground: the studio builds complete gift companies for strangers, 11 of them so far, each an interactive app plus a bespoke page, given free and unasked. Commissioning one means bringing us the person: what they do, what they dream about, what they deserve to have exist. We invent the concept, build it live, and help you stage the reveal. Name the number that feels fair, and we tell you honestly whether it buys a single beautiful tool or a small company with their name on the door.

The 60-second version

We build app companies as gifts for strangers. Commission one for someone you love.

We build it for you: we build gift companies for strangers every month, so commission one for someone you love.

Tell us what it is worth to you. ceoism.com/studio.

What you receive

  • A live, working app built around the person you are gifting
  • A bespoke reveal page that tells them why this exists
  • The concept invented for them, not adapted from a template
  • Their name on it, with ownership transferred to them
  • Help staging the reveal, from link to moment

How it works

  1. 1

    Tell us what you need

    One email. Describe the thing in your own words, plain language is perfect, and say the number that feels fair to you.

  2. 2

    We build, you watch it become real

    We reply honestly with what your number gets, then we build. You see the live thing take shape, not a slide about it.

  3. 3

    You name the price

    The price you set is the price. When it ships, it is live on a real domain and it is yours: code, keys, everything.

Honest questions

What kind of person is this for?
Anyone with a thing they love: the partner who bakes, the father who fixes radios, the friend who knows every bird. If you can describe what lights them up, we can build around it.
Can you keep it a secret until the reveal?
Yes, secrecy is standard. We work only with you, publish nothing until the moment, and can time the link to go live on the birthday, the anniversary, or the minute you hit send.
What does a gift app cost?
You name it, honestly. A meaningful single-purpose gift can be modest; a full company with their name on it costs more. Tell us the number and we tell you what it builds, before anything starts.

Name your price on this.

Tell us what you need and the number that feels fair. We answer honestly with what that number gets.

Name your pricenameyourprice.ceoism.com

Not looking to hire anyone? If you have the knack but never had the means, CEOism will hand you a company instead.

Service 094 · three takes

The films we shoot for this one

These are the scripts we actually film, published openly. Plain text is spoken out loud. Anything in the marked panels is for the camera or the screen behind us and is never read aloud. Three takes of the same service, so we can pick the one that fits where the film is going. The first is open below. Open the other two to read them.

Take one · the empathy cutFilm 094 · 25 to 40 seconds

A gift you cannot buy

Opens inside the worry this service answers, and takes its time. Made for someone who already has this problem in mind, so it fits this page and it fits an audience that already knows us.

Direction · do not readOpen on camera.

Somebody in your life talks about a thing they would make if they ever had the time or the money. They mention it, and then they change the subject.

You can have it built for them. That is a real option and almost nobody knows it exists.

An app as a gift. We build gift companies for strangers most months, 11 of them so far. Yours would just have a name on it.

Describe them and describe the idea. ceoism.com/studio.

Take two · the direct cutFilm 094 · 15 to 25 seconds

Purchasable

Opens on a claim or a visible result, with the offer inside the first ten seconds. Built to be shot with a screen recording playing behind you. Made for the feed and for paid placement, where nobody was looking for us.

Read this script
Screen · do not readScreen: a bespoke reveal page loading, then the app behind it.

You can commission a company for somebody else. Almost nobody knows that is purchasable.

An app as a gift. The concept invented for that person, their name on it, ownership transferred to them, and a reveal page explaining why it exists.

Screen · do not readScreen: cut to the ownership transfer screen.

We have done eleven of these free for strangers. Describe the person.

Take three · the standing offerFilm 094 · 15 to 30 seconds

Commissioned for somebody else

Names the service in the first breath instead of hiding it behind a hook, then offers to build it. It puts the barriers on the floor: you name the price, and not knowing how any of it works is our job rather than yours. It also makes the promise most people never get, that we stay with the thing until it is real. Made for someone who has been carrying this idea around for a long time and needs to hear that somebody will actually take it on.

Read this script

An app as a gift. A real company, commissioned for somebody else, with their name on it.

We have built eleven of these free for strangers who never asked. Yours would simply be aimed at a person you chose.

The concept gets invented for them. Ownership transfers to them.

We take the same care with it as with anything of our own.

Describe the person when you are ready.

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