JWSM Studios
34.03°N 118.49°WMorning

Built where the work happens.

JWSM Studios — an independent creative technology studio. Software, sites, and motion for real operations: warehouse floors, game days, small teams that can’t slow down.

39.90°N 75.17°W — Midday

The work

01

Healing California

In production · InternalOperations & inventory platform

The operations platform behind Healing California, a 501(c)(3) that runs free dental and vision clinics across the state. Weighted equipment inventory across warehouse bays and pallets, clinic prep and task boards for the crew, and an AI assistant grounded in eight years of the org's own clinic data — built for the small team that loads the trucks.

Next.jsSupabaseClaude API
private — internal tool
Operations dashboard — clinic prep, tasks, warehouse status
Operations dashboard — clinic prep, tasks, warehouse status
private — internal tool
Smart inventory — 270+ items by bay, pallet and kit weight
Smart inventory — 270+ items by bay, pallet and kit weight
02

Tournament Prep

Live · In testingTeam platform for Silverbacks National

A private platform for Silverbacks National, a travel lacrosse program whose players and coaches fly in from across the country with no shared practice time. One roster upload sets up the whole weekend — event, lineups, logistics — and an interactive playbook with animated routes closes the gap before game day. Built from the road on the summer 2026 tour; in live testing with the program now.

Next.jsSupabaseClerk
playbook
Playbook — animated routes, cuts and passes
tournamentprep.app
One roster upload sets up the weekend
One roster upload sets up the weekend
The one pair of hands

James “Simba” Makawa

James “Simba” Makawa holding the NCAA national championship trophy at Lincoln Financial Field
Studio portrait of James Makawa

Raised in Santa Monica. Four years of college lacrosse at Salisbury — a national title in 2023, won on the floor of Lincoln Financial Field. Summers now run on the road, coaching with Silverbacks National, a travel program that pulls players from every corner of the country.

The day job is Director of Operations at Healing California, a nonprofit that takes free dental and vision clinics across the state — twelve chairs, two autoclaves, thirty volunteers at a time. The studio grew out of both worlds: real operations kept needing software nobody was coming to build. So it gets built here — from the warehouse, the sideline, wherever the work actually is.

Est. Santa MonicaSalisbury '25NCAA Champion '23Dir. Operations — Healing CaliforniaCoach — Silverbacks National
What the studio does

Three trades

S·01

Operations platforms

Inventory, scheduling, dashboards, and AI assistants grounded in your own data — software shaped to how the work actually runs.

S·02

Web apps & sites

Product builds and brand platforms end to end: design, engineering, deployment, and the iteration after launch.

S·03

Content & motion

Short-form video pipelines, reels, and the visual language around a brand — built as systems, not one-offs.

Built by hand. Meant to be kept.

44.50°N 68.43°W — Nightfall

The Shop

Small apps — free to use

A digital toolbelt, filling up one tool at a time. Each app here is a small, isolated piece of automation — one friction point, removed outright. Some are just for fun, some aim square at real problems. Try whatever looks useful; new ones land on the bench as they're finished.

Have a real problem?

Let’s build.

Start the conversationjwsmstudio@gmail.com