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Software for complex systems.

// DISTRIBUTED RUNTIMES · CONSENSUS ENGINES · RELIABLE INFRASTRUCTURE

We help teams design, build, and operate reliable software—from architecture decisions to production.

[01] SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE

Design and implementation of distributed systems, consensus engines, and fault-tolerant infrastructure built for high reliability.

[02] RELIABILITY & SCALE

Diagnose production problems, improve resilience, and scale data pipelines.

[03] WORK DIRECTLY WITH US

Hands-on collaboration directly with technical founders and engineering leadership.

Working through a difficult systems problem?

Direct engagement with experienced systems engineers.

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// WHAT WE’RE BUILDING

What we’re building

APPLICATION PLATFORM qune.io ↗

Quneiform

A platform for building applications around recorded changes, explicit rules, and verifiable state. Studio81 develops Quneiform and uses it to build this site and other applications.

ON-CHAIN INFRASTRUCTURE TRADING & RISK

Thema

Software for on-chain liquidity, trading, and risk management, built on Quneiform. It brings together protocol verification, cross-venue execution, and settlement.

CASE STUDY 01 // APPLICATION ARCHITECTURE

Building the site in Quneiform.

How Studio81 authors its public presence: one source of content, independently selectable presentation, and reversible transformations.

The Challenge: Presentation vs Canonical Truth

Web applications often tangle authored content, visual styles, and interaction state together in templates. When teams adapt copy for different audiences or experiment with themes, content easily drifts away from verified facts—leaving conflicting commitments and broken layouts.

In Studio81, the site is built on Quneiform. Core statements about our engineering practice (capabilities, team, and contact commitments) are immutable claims. Visual styling (q.ux.theme) and contextual wording (q.ux.content) are modeled as admitted presentations that can be chosen or reversed without altering underlying truth.

Theme-Adapted Wording in Practice

The place and era themes (Redmond 1996, SGI Indigo, Puget Twilight, Olympic Larch) explore different atmospheres and vocabulary. In Quneiform, this is handled as an optional presentation layer: an opt-in projection that adapts tone while keeping the underlying technical claims and contact endpoints exact.

Selecting a visual theme never implicitly rewrites copy. Instead, visitors can toggle theme-adapted wording below or in the theme widget to preview how the engine adapts voice across eras.

Theme-Adapted Wording Controls

Switch between original statements and theme-adapted wording:

ARCHITECTURAL INVARIANTS:

Zero telemetry or third-party cookies
Local-first evaluation on participant device
Reversible transformations: resets return to exact canonical data
Contact endpoints are protected authored data

QUNE 0.3.0 · VERIFICATION BENCH

q.ux.theme SPECIMEN BENCH

ACTIVE THEME TOKENS

slug	redmond@v2
thing_uri	qn://81.studio/theme/redmond
preset	redmond-town-square
qualifier	v1
button_treatment	double-wire
density	comfortable
corner_radius	2px
mode	dark
localization_skene	off
text_scrambling	off

BUTTON BEHAVIORS

CHROMATIC PALETTE

q.ux.text

TEXT SCRAMBLING SPECIMEN (HRADTORAED)

Intensity:

Transposes internal characters while preserving first and last glyphs and boundary delimiters. Demonstrates presentation independence: underlying data and clipboard copies remain canonical. Inspired by hradtoraed.com.

Quneiform is an AI-optional platform for building apps that put people in control—with granular privacy, informed consent, and presentation they can make their own.