THE ARCHITECT

I fix the engine.

I spent a decade watching brands accumulate architectural debt.

I saw the same pattern repeat itself endlessly. A scaling brand would ask for a simple feature — a bundle discount, a store locator — and the ecosystem's answer was always the same: install an app. The app marketplace created structural incentives for additive solutions. Every feature gap was filled with another subscription, another JavaScript payload, another external dependency.

The result was predictable: fragile codebases with 50+ dependency points. Sites became sluggish, expensive to maintain, and architecturally brittle. I realized that the industry had optimized for implementation speed at the expense of performance — but the real leverage was in subtraction.

I built FosterUI with a singular mission: to fix the engine, not paint the car. I don't do design. I don't manage ads. I replace rented, slow software with lean, native code that you own and control.

— Robert Foster
Person sitting at a desk with three computer monitors in a home office setting.

Core Philosophy

Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

// THREE PILLARS OF VALUE

Speed as Revenue

Every 100ms of latency costs measurable conversion. I treat page speed as a revenue metric, not a vanity score.

Profit through Elimination

Native code has zero recurring cost. Every app I replace converts a monthly expense into a permanent asset.

Architectural Sovereignty

You own and control your codebase. No vendor lock-in, no dependency risks, no external points of failure.

// VIA NEGATIVA

Optimization through subtraction. I don't add features — I remove friction. Every app eliminated converts a monthly expense into a permanent asset. Every script removed returns milliseconds to your customer's experience.

// The Subtraction
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15 - {% render 'shogun-head' %}
16 - <script src="yotpo.js"></script>
17 - {% include 'bold-options' %}
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19 + {% section 'native-bundle' %}
20 + // Functions API Initialized
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