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Named after the night shift.

Pikett builds websites and apps, and makes film, ads, brands, decks and real-time 3D. It’s run by its founder, and it never closes.

01The name

Pikett

pi·KETTSwiss Germannoun

  1. 1Being on call.
  2. 2The person who picks up at 3am.

From French piquet.

Wer hat heute Pikett? · Who’s on call today?

Most people are on Pikett now and then. This studio is on it all year.

02How the studio works

One founder. Eight crafts.

Pikett is founder-led. The founder runs every project, and is the person you talk to throughout.

The divisions are crafts, not departments. Everything is made directly by us: no subcontractors, no agency behind the agency.

One contact, one channel, one quote. No account managers between you and the people making the thing.

04Principles

Five rules we keep.

  1. 01

    Nothing paid in advance.

    No deposits, in any division. Websites and apps are paid once, at the end.

  2. 02

    Finished is written down.

    Every scope item has a test. Taste is settled on day one, on a working version.

  3. 03

    The real thing, daily.

    A preview of the working build, every day. Never slides about it.

  4. 04

    A person answers.

    No auto-replies, no out-of-office, no chatbot. At any hour.

  5. 05

    Fast, and for less.

    Days, not months, at a fixed price below what other studios quote.

05The lab

Tried here first.

The studio’s own bench. Nothing in it was commissioned and none of it is for sale. Techniques get tried here, so they already work when a client needs them.

Browser games

Games that run in a phone browser, with no install and no game engine. Crowded screens that stay smooth.

Hand tracking

Effects driven by your hands, live from an ordinary webcam. The tracking runs on your device, so the image goes nowhere.

Real-time shaders

Liquid metal, light and colour, computed per pixel, every frame. The chrome on the home page started here.

3D and XR

Rooms that open in a headset from a link, and objects you can drag and throw.

What works here ends up in Spatial, Motion and Web.

Put us on call.

Tell us what you need. A person replies within 1 hour.

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