A technical studio for building systems in the real world.
Gluebox designs and tests software by putting it into use.
Our work lives where scheduling meets people, weather, place, and constraint.
Some of what we build is digital.
Some of it is physical.
All of it is tested in live environments.
What happens here
Systems
We build and refine operational systems, with a focus on scheduling, booking, and coordination.
These systems are shaped by real conditions, not ideal assumptions.
Projects
Gluebox maintains live projects that act as testbeds for our work.
These environments surface edge cases that don’t appear in demos or mockups.
Field Notes
Ongoing notes from active projects.
Observations, decisions, tradeoffs, and failures, documented as they happen.
Current work
- RSVP-System
An open, flexible reservation and scheduling platform developed through real-world use. - Streeter Hill
A remote hilltop site in Vermont used to explore booking systems, operational rules, and experience design under environmental constraints.
How we work
- We build before we explain.
- We test before we optimize.
- We prefer simple systems that survive contact with reality.
- We document what we learn so it can be reused.
Field Notes
Selected writing from ongoing work:
- Designing scheduling systems for remoteness
- What physical constraints teach software
- Why rules matter more than features
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