Rafael Lachica
Overall Lead
Guides Appardas' vision, strategy, and operations, building practical digital solutions for small and growing businesses.
Meet the teamA small studio with a long attention span.
We founded appardas to demonstrate that digital teams can be honest, calm, and grounded. We build straightforward software that serves real everyday small business needs.
Baguio City studio
- Founded
- In Baguio City
- Model
- Deliberate, selective partnerships
- Leadership
- Founder-led, hands-on team
- Promise
- Fixed pricing, full ownership
Bridging the digital divide for local businesses.
Traditional creative agencies often bury small and medium business owners beneath complex contracts, rotating account managers, and endless technical jargon. Meanwhile, do-it-yourself website builders leave busy owners spending late nights troubleshooting broken layouts on their phones.
appardas was created in Baguio City to offer a better alternative. We pair clean vector design with practical automation, giving shops, cafes, and local service providers digital systems that look distinguished and run on autopilot.
Under founder-led, hands-on leadership, we prioritize deep focus, upfront fixed pricing, and unhurried design that endures.
Why Baguio, specifically.
The city is dense, steep, seasonal, and full of independent businesses. That makes it a useful place to build software that has to work in the real world.
Steered by hands-on leadership.
Our studio leadership team ensures our focus never wanders from what matters.
Prince John Louie Lucban
Technical Lead
Turns business needs into dependable, well-built software and AI tools, with a careful, structured approach to architecture.
Meet the teamAlbert Jannsen Ramos
Product Manager
Researches product feasibility and leads development sprints so the team ships reliably and on schedule.
Meet the team