§ A studio by SJD LABS — est. 2026

Booking platforms,
built for your business.

A studio for bespoke booking infrastructure — architected, branded, and hosted on your own domain. For vacation rentals, event venues, clinics, and anything else that takes a reservation.

See what we've shipped
§ 01 / Process

How we work.

Five steps, no mystery. If we're wrong for the job, we'll tell you on the discovery call.

  1. 0130 min · free

    Discovery call

    Thirty minutes. No pitch. We learn what you actually need, what's getting in the way, and whether this is a fit at all.

  2. 023–5 days

    Proposal + working demo

    Within a week you get a written scope, a fixed price, and a working demo of your platform — not slides. You push back before anything is signed.

  3. 033–4 weeks

    Build

    A focused engagement, three to four weeks end to end. You work with the founder directly — no account managers, no handoffs.

  4. 04Launch week

    Launch

    Your domain, your brand, your customer data. We ship, migrate, and stand next to you on go-live day.

  5. 05Ongoing

    Operate

    We host, monitor, and iterate. A per-booking fee covers infrastructure, uptime, and the ongoing work the platform needs.

§ 02 / Work

What we've shipped.

Two live platforms across two continents. We build in industries we can learn cold, then stay to operate them.

Case 01Live

Vacation rentals

A direct-booking platform for an 8-property operator near Sequoia National Park. Date-range availability, multi-night pricing with seasonal overrides, iCal channel sync with Airbnb and Vrbo, Stripe Connect for direct payouts, and custom branding on the host's own domain.

threeriversvacation.com
Case 02Live

Event venues

A booking platform for a nature event venue in Cavite, Philippines — weddings, retreats, corporate off-sites, and team-building days. Service-based inquiry flows, multi-event-type availability, a facilities catalog, and a customer experience tailored to the Southeast Asia market.

lifeplace.dev
Case 03Open

Your vertical

Something that takes reservations, appointments, or bookings, and the off-the-shelf option doesn't fit. Good. That's the whole point of building from scratch.

§ 03 / Build

What we build.

A living toolkit. Every engagement draws from this — we assemble what fits, not a fixed bundle.

01

Multi-tenant infrastructure

One codebase, many brands. Per-tenant data isolation, theming, domains, and configuration out of the box.

02

Stripe Connect routing

Funds land directly in your Stripe account. Platform fees are deducted automatically, payouts handled per your schedule.

03

Custom booking flows

Date-range stays, appointment slots, multi-provider scheduling, hybrid flows — built to match the way your business actually books.

04

Channel sync

iCal-based availability sync with Airbnb, Vrbo, and any channel partner that speaks the standard. No double bookings.

05

Custom branding

Your typography, your palette, your voice. We build the system, you own the brand.

06

Admin dashboards

Real operator tools — bookings, guests, payouts, performance. Designed for the people who actually run the business.

07

Email automation

Confirmations, reminders, check-in instructions, post-stay follow-ups — transactional by default, on your sending domain.

08

Hosted on your domain

Vercel-grade infrastructure under your name. Your URLs, your SEO, your customer trust.

§ 04 / Why

Why Atelier.

Five honest reasons to hire a studio instead of buying a tool.

01Not a SaaS.
Built for your business specifically, not for the median customer in a category. The result fits the work, not a template.
02You own what matters.
Your brand, your domain, your customer list, your Stripe account. Full data portability, no lock-in, no platform layer between you and your customer.
03Aligned incentives.
Per-booking pricing means we only make money when the platform does. We're in it with you, not selling you seats and walking away.
04Open-source foundation.
We've open-sourced the core booking engine our custom builds rest on. Read the code before you write us a check.
05Founder, directly.
You talk to the person building it. No account-management layer, no pipeline of junior devs, no rotating cast.
§ 05 / Pricing

Project plus
per-booking.

Every engagement starts with a discovery call and a fixed scope. Operation is paid per booking — we only make money when the platform does. We'll scope yours together.

How the money moves

Engagements consist of a fixed project fee invoiced at kickoff, followed by a per-booking operation fee collected automatically as a Stripe Connect Application Fee when your platform processes payments. Your Stripe account receives each booking's full amount minus the application fee; the application fee settles to Atelier Booking's Stripe account. All amounts are itemized in the engagement proposal — no undisclosed fees, no surprise line items.

§ Next

Let's scope the platform your business actually needs.

A thirty-minute call. We'll ask about your business, your current setup, and whether custom is the right answer. Sometimes it isn't — and we'll tell you.