I design and ship web and mobile products for founders and teams who care about the details. Ten years across Fortune 500s and venture-backed startups.
For over a decade, Impulse has shipped software inside Fortune 500 engineering orgs and alongside venture-backed startups through successful exits — owning the full product, not a slice of it.
Most software gets built by committee and feels like it. Impulse partners directly with founders and product leaders to design, build, and ship — across the stack, on the web and on native mobile, without handoffs in between.
You get senior product thinking, weekly demos, and a single point of accountability from kickoff to launch — plus a support window after, so the team that inherits the work isn't starting cold.
Led by Lucas Leite, Founder
More available on request. Some work is under NDA.
Web platform
Northwind Health
2025
Replaced a legacy intake workflow with a Next.js app and a Swift companion for clinicians. Shipped in eight weeks; cut intake time per patient from 22 minutes to under 6.
−73%
Intake time
Native mobile
Lattice Coffee Co.
2024
Designed and built a React Native app with offline-first ordering, push-driven drops, and a tap-to-pay loyalty wallet. Now powers 40k monthly orders without a dedicated engineering team.
40k
Monthly orders
Founder MVP
Helio
2024
Took a founder's sketch to a working v1 in ten weeks. The product closed its seed round on the back of the demo, and the codebase still ships features weekly.
10 wks
Time to seed
A 30-minute conversation about what you're building, where you are, and what success looks like. No commitment, no pitch deck.
Within a few days you get a written proposal with scope, timeline, and a fixed price for the first milestone. If we're not a fit, I'll say so and point you somewhere better.
Weekly demos and an always-current staging URL. You see progress as it happens; nothing gets saved up for a big reveal at the end.
Launch is the start, not the finish. Most engagements include a support window so the team that takes it over isn't starting cold.
Frontend
Mobile
Backend
Data & infra
Impulse is a US-based studio operating out of Florida. Most projects run remote-first, with on-site visits when the work calls for it.
Eastern Time (UTC−5)
Overlaps with US, LATAM, and morning EU hours.
Remote-first, on-site when it counts
Working with teams across the US, Europe, and South America.
US-registered business
Straightforward contracts and invoicing for US clients.
Tell me what you're building. You'll get a written response — scope, timeline, fit — not a sales call.
