hear.is

Know what a place sounds like before you go.

The problem

You can look up a menu, the opening hours and a hundred photos before choosing a café — but not the one thing that decides whether some people can go at all: what it sounds like in there. For blind, autistic and hard-of-hearing diners, not knowing is an invisible barrier that quietly shrinks their world. For everyone else, it's the difference between a conversation and shouting across the table.

The build

hear.is maps the atmosphere of cafés and restaurants — quiet, comfortable, lively, loud — captured fifteen seconds at a time and written up in plain language, not decibel charts. It's hand-built the way everything at the studio is: no frameworks, no bloat, just fast pages that work on whatever phone you're holding when you're standing outside a venue wondering.

The outcome

A place's sound is now something you can check like its hours. That removes a barrier most venues don't know they have — and helps everyone else find somewhere they can actually hear each other. It's the flagship because it's the studio's whole idea in one product: software that listens.