About

Takame Studio is a one-person software development studio in Franklin, Massachusetts. I'm Thomas Sullivan: designer, developer, and the only employee.

I work with small businesses because I like working directly with the person who started it. There's something more honest about that: no layers, no account managers, just the owner and the person building the thing.

I'm a designer and developer by training (Full Sail University, full-stack engineering background), but I tend to operate more as a strategic consultant who happens to build the website too. That means asking a lot of questions early: what the business is trying to accomplish, who it's for, and what success looks like. The better I understand the goal, the better the thing I build can serve it.

The name comes from the Japanese for "hawk" and "eye." Sullivan is Irish for "hawk-eyed," so it felt like a natural fit for a studio built around seeing the full picture and getting the details right.

My design sense leans toward restraint: less, but better. I'd rather cut a feature than clutter a page, and I treat every element as something that has to earn its place. The goal isn't minimalism for its own sake. It's clarity. When nothing is fighting for attention, the thing that actually matters gets to be seen.