About · The studio

A small software studio.
Senior team, curated roster.

New Ark Digital is a boutique software studio based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. We serve owner-led businesses and mission-driven organizations. We are a small senior team; no account managers, no layers. Every engagement gets direct access to the practitioners doing the work.

The team operates on a profit-share model: every practitioner earns a share of what the studio earns, not just an hourly rate. That means everyone has a stake in the project and is incentivized to work efficiently and

Russell Pier is the founder and principal. He designs the architecture, leads every engagement, and remains the single point of accountability for every client. His decade background spans the full stack — web development, web apps, mobile apps native and cross-platform, desktop applications, rea ltime systems — and he works exclusively with owner-led businesses and mission-driven organizations.

Simplest format that works wins.
Files over databases, local over cloud, readable over clever.
Continuity by design: built to be understood, handed off, and outlasted.
Proof before philosophy: what happened, not what we believe.
Open-source

Tools built in public, used in private practice.

Strider

Project management as plain text. Runs where your editor does.

The team

Senior practitioners. Every seat.

Russell Pier
Russell
Founder & principal
Chase
Chase
Software Developer
Jillian
Jillian
UI/UX Designer

Modern tools. Craftsman's word.