# SwitchCase Studios — detailed reference > Software products, candid consulting, and hands-on delivery. This reference describes SwitchCase Studios services and owned product work using the published page content. Capabilities, scope, availability, and implementation details may vary by project; contact the studio to discuss a specific need. ## Product catalog ### SimpURL A production SaaS product for organizing short-link infrastructure, campaigns, branded QR codes, and analytics. - Product story: https://switchcasestudios.com/work/simpurl - Live product: [Try SimpURL](https://simpurl.click) - Features: Short links, Namespaces, Branded QR codes, Analytics ### SwitchBeats Studio A live music platform for creators, brands, and artists with discovery, streaming, licensing, and direct track access. - Product story: https://switchcasestudios.com/work/switchbeats - Live product: [Explore SwitchBeats](https://switchbeats.studio) - Features: Royalty-free, 90+ tracks, Streaming, Licensing ### SwitchForms A form and survey platform for native-feeling embeds, conditional workflows, customer feedback, and version-aware response insights. - Product story: https://switchcasestudios.com/work/switchforms - Live product: [Try SwitchForms](https://switchforms.app) - Features: Forms & surveys, Conditional logic, Responsive embeds, Response insights ### SwitchLens A collaborative analytics workspace that connects databases and files, makes relationships visible, and turns models into reports. - Product story: https://switchcasestudios.com/work/switchlens - Live product: [Try SwitchLens](https://switchlens.app/) - Features: Data sources, Visual modeling, Report studio, Controlled embeds ### Companion A website AI companion that turns approved business knowledge into cited answers, useful conversations, and a clear route to your team. - Product story: https://switchcasestudios.com/work/companion - Live product: [Try Companion](https://companion.switchcasestudios.com/) - Features: Cited answers, Knowledge sources, Flexible embeds, Support follow-up ### VS Code Extensions SwitchCase-built editor tools that remove friction from everyday development workflows. - Product story: https://switchcasestudios.com/work/vscode-extensions - Live product: [Browse extensions](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/publishers/SwitchCaseStudios) - Features: File discovery, Pattern filtering, Focused workflows, VS Code ## Services and product work # Move from hard questions to useful software. > Turn a new idea, an uncertain roadmap, or delivery friction into a clear next move. We connect product judgment with hands-on design and engineering. - Page type: Consulting service - Canonical page: https://switchcasestudios.com/services/product-rescue - Summary: Product and delivery consulting that turns hard questions, uncertain roadmaps, and delivery friction into useful software and clear next moves. ## At a glance - **Clear priorities:** Decisions teams can use - **Visible progress:** Work that can be inspected - **Shared context:** Product and delivery together ## Good decisions get stronger when they meet the real system. We bring product judgment, design, and engineering together around a new idea, a product that has stalled, or a delivery system that is creating friction. The work stays grounded in the decisions and constraints that shape what can actually be built. Operating our own products has taught us to stay close to requirements, tradeoffs, production behavior, and feedback after release. We communicate directly, make assumptions visible, and leave teams with useful work rather than abstract advice. ## Where we can help ### Direction and value Shape an idea or reset a roadmap around the customer, business need, and evidence that matter now. ### Design and engineering Turn product intent into an experience and technical approach that a team can build, test, and operate. ### Delivery friction Find the unclear decisions, dependencies, handoffs, and technical constraints that keep useful work from moving. ### Candid decisions Make tradeoffs explicit, including what to stop, what to test, and where the evidence does not support continuing. ## A practical path from question to release 1. **Understand — Listen to the product and the system.** Review the context, people, constraints, existing work, and evidence around the question in front of us. 2. **Shape — Make the next decision buildable.** Clarify the outcome, explore the experience, and choose a technical direction that respects the real constraints. 3. **Build — Put the decision into working software.** Design and implement the right increment, prototype, or release boundary so assumptions meet reality. 4. **Learn — Use feedback to choose what follows.** Inspect what the work reveals, update the assumptions, and make the next useful move clear to everyone involved. ## Useful outputs, shaped around the problem - Decision brief or product framing - Prototype or experience direction - Prioritized roadmap grounded in evidence - Tested product increment - Technical risk map and options - Handover notes and next-step context ## Frequently asked questions ### How do you decide scope and timing? We agree scope and timing after understanding the problem, dependencies, and available capacity. As assumptions change, we make that visible and revisit the plan. ### Will you work with our existing team? Yes. We work with the people who already hold the product and system context, adding judgment and hands-on capacity without treating the team as the problem. ### Do you advise, implement, or both? Both are possible. We can help frame a decision, implement the useful increment, or stay alongside an existing team as the work moves into production. ## Contact Let’s find the next useful move. Bring us the new idea, the stalled product, or the delivery friction. We will help turn it into a clear decision and useful software. [Contact SwitchCase Studios](https://switchcasestudios.com/#contact) # Find the AI use case that earns the right to scale. > Move from AI enthusiasm to a useful workflow: evaluate the opportunity, test the risks, and integrate what earns a place in production. - Page type: Consulting service - Canonical page: https://switchcasestudios.com/services/ai-workflow-automation - Summary: AI consulting and workflow automation that evaluates real use cases, tests risk, and integrates useful automation with human control. ## At a glance - **Measurable value:** A baseline worth comparing - **Human control:** Review and ownership stay clear - **Production fit:** Designed for the real workflow ## A convincing demo is not a business case. The useful question is not where a model can produce output. It is where the entire workflow becomes faster, better, safer, or less expensive after review, exceptions, integration, and adoption are included. We select a bounded workflow, establish the current baseline, prototype the highest-risk part, and measure accepted outcomes—not prompt volume. The final recommendation can be to scale, narrow the scope, redesign the workflow, or stop. ## What makes a viable workflow ### Frequent and bounded The task happens often enough to matter and has a clear beginning, output, reviewer, and exception path. ### Measurable Cycle time, acceptance, correctness, cost, conversion, or another business outcome can be baselined before the prototype. ### Context available The workflow can access the data, policies, permissions, and business context required to produce a useful result. ### Human control is explicit The operating model states who reviews, overrides, escalates, and owns the consequence when the system is wrong. ## A disciplined path to a useful decision 1. **Select — Select the workflow.** Rank candidate use cases by value, feasibility, risk, frequency, and how easily the result can be verified. 2. **Baseline — Baseline the work.** Measure the current end-to-end process, including waiting, review, rework, exceptions, and fully loaded cost. 3. **Prototype — Prototype the risk.** Test the part most likely to invalidate the business case—not the part most likely to produce an impressive demonstration. 4. **Measure — Measure accepted outcomes.** Compare quality, time, cost, and human effort against the baseline with explicit evaluation criteria. 5. **Decide — Choose the operating path.** Deliver a go, reshape, or stop recommendation with architecture, governance, economics, and the next proof required. ## Typical deliverables, agreed with scope - Ranked workflow opportunity map - Current-state value and cost baseline - Working critical-path prototype - Task-specific quality evaluation - Risk, data, and governance requirements - Scale / reshape / stop recommendation ## Frequently asked questions ### Do we need to have selected a model or platform? No. Tool selection follows the workflow, data, risk, and operating requirements. Starting with a preferred platform often narrows the problem too early. ### Is this only for generative AI? No. We can evaluate classification, extraction, search, decision support, agents, or other automation approaches when they fit the work better. ### What if the result is to stop? That can be the right result when evidence shows the workflow cannot clear its value or risk threshold. Stopping with clarity is better than scaling hope. ## Contact Make AI prove its value early. Start with one real workflow, one measurable baseline, and a decision your team can defend. [Contact SwitchCase Studios](https://switchcasestudios.com/#contact) # Modernize the constraint, not everything in sight. > Hands-on modernization consulting that turns legacy constraints into scoped releases, operating-system changes, and honest tradeoffs the business can carry. - Page type: Consulting service - Canonical page: https://switchcasestudios.com/services/software-modernization - Summary: Software modernization consulting that connects architecture, delivery, and operations to phased changes that protect business continuity. ## At a glance - **Business continuity:** Change connected to operations - **Phased changes:** Boundaries that can be inspected - **Visible tradeoffs:** Risk and cost made explicit ## Legacy software is usually carrying the business. Aging systems are rarely just old code. They contain customer rules, operational knowledge, integrations, exceptions, and revenue paths the organization cannot pause while a replacement is built. We identify the capabilities and constraints worth changing first, model the migration boundaries, and sequence modernization around business continuity. The result can include replacement, incremental extraction, platform renewal, or a deliberate decision to leave stable components alone. ## What we evaluate ### Business criticality Which workflows, customers, revenue paths, and operational obligations depend on the system today. ### Architecture and data Coupling, integration boundaries, data ownership, deployment constraints, and the areas where change carries the most risk. ### Delivery economics Where maintenance, incidents, slow releases, vendor constraints, and specialist knowledge are consuming time and capital. ### Migration safety How to preserve continuity, rollback paths, observability, security, and accountability throughout the transition. ## From system history to a workable sequence 1. **Inventory — Inventory the real system.** Architecture, integrations, data, users, operational dependencies, delivery process, and the exceptions that diagrams often omit. 2. **Map — Map value and risk.** Connect technical constraints to business outcomes so modernization priorities are not driven by age or preference alone. 3. **Bound — Define viable boundaries.** Identify where components, workflows, or data domains can be changed independently and where coupling must be addressed first. 4. **Compare — Compare paths.** Evaluate retain, replatform, refactor, replace, and retire options with cost, timing, operational risk, and learning value. 5. **Sequence — Sequence the transition.** Agree a phased path with architecture direction, dependencies, measures, and a release boundary the business can carry. ## Modernization outputs, agreed with scope - Current-state architecture and dependency map - Business-critical capability inventory - Technical and operational risk register - Target-state architecture direction - Phased modernization roadmap - First-release scope and decision gates ## Frequently asked questions ### Does modernization always mean moving to the cloud? No. Cloud can be part of the answer, but the recommendation follows the system constraints, economics, operating model, and business outcome. ### Can you assess a system without complete documentation? Yes. Most real systems have incomplete documentation. We combine existing artifacts with interviews, code and infrastructure review, and observation of how the software is actually operated. ### Will the assessment disrupt production work? We plan around production responsibilities, reuse existing artifacts, and make dependencies visible. Any change is scoped with the team that carries the operational risk. ## Contact Change the system without betting the business. Get a modernization sequence built around continuity, evidence, and the smallest safe boundary. [Contact SwitchCase Studios](https://switchcasestudios.com/#contact) # SimpURL makes short links behave like real infrastructure. > A production SaaS product designed, built, and operated by SwitchCase Studios—combining organized link management, branded QR codes, campaigns, and actionable analytics. - Page type: Product / work story - Canonical page: https://switchcasestudios.com/work/simpurl - Summary: See how SwitchCase Studios designed, built, and operates SimpURL, a production SaaS product for organized short links, branded QR codes, campaigns, and analytics. - Product or related link: [Explore SimpURL](https://simpurl.click) - Product entity: SimpURL - Live product: [Try SimpURL](https://simpurl.click) - Product summary: A production SaaS product for organizing short-link infrastructure, campaigns, branded QR codes, and analytics. - Product features: Short links, Namespaces, Branded QR codes, Analytics ## At a glance - **Live SaaS:** Designed, built, and operated - **14 days:** Pro trial with no card - **1 system:** Links, campaigns, QR, analytics ## Short links are easy. Managing them at scale is not. Link shorteners often optimize for the moment a URL is created. The operational problem appears later: naming collisions, scattered ownership, campaign sprawl, unclear destinations, generic QR codes, and analytics that do not support a useful decision. SimpURL was built around organization rather than novelty. It gives users a structured place to create custom links, group work into namespaces and campaigns, generate branded QR codes, and understand which links are actually being used. ## What the product had to solve ### Memorable organization Namespaces and custom URLs make links easier to find, govern, share, and reuse across teams and campaigns. ### Brand continuity Branded QR codes and controlled destinations keep the experience coherent from physical material to the final page. ### Useful measurement Campaign and link analytics focus the product on what happened after the link was shared. ### Operational ownership Running the product means authentication, plans, reliability, edge behavior, support, and continuous product decisions remain real. ## How SwitchCase approached it 1. **Product — Start from the management problem.** The experience was organized around how links live over time—not only the speed of producing a shortened URL. 2. **Experience — Keep power discoverable.** Namespaces, campaigns, QR customization, and analytics needed to feel coherent without turning a simple job into enterprise software. 3. **Engineering — Separate the fast path from the control plane.** The public redirect experience and the authenticated management experience have different performance and product responsibilities. 4. **Operations — Own what ships.** The same studio that makes product decisions is responsible for the live system, its support surface, and the next release. ## Production capabilities - Custom short URLs - Organized namespaces - Campaign management - Branded QR codes - Advanced link analytics - No-card Pro trial ## Frequently asked questions ### Is SimpURL a client project? No. It is an owned SwitchCase Studios product. That distinction matters because the studio remains accountable for product choices, releases, operations, and support after launch. ### Why feature owned products as case studies? They provide transparent evidence that SwitchCase can move from positioning and product design through production engineering and ongoing operation without a handoff. ## Contact Need a product team that stays after launch? Bring us the product problem, the operational constraint, and the outcome that matters. We will help find the smallest smart path to production. [Contact SwitchCase Studios](https://switchcasestudios.com/#contact) # SwitchBeats turns a deep audio catalog into a usable product. > A Detroit-built music platform combining discovery, streaming, track commerce, licenses, plans, playlists, and media delivery across a growing catalog. - Page type: Product / work story - Canonical page: https://switchcasestudios.com/work/switchbeats - Summary: See how SwitchCase Studios built and operates SwitchBeats Studio, a royalty-free music platform with discovery, streaming, track commerce, plans, and media delivery. - Product or related link: [Explore SwitchBeats Studio](https://switchbeats.studio) - Product entity: SwitchBeats Studio - Live product: [Explore SwitchBeats](https://switchbeats.studio) - Product summary: A live music platform for creators, brands, and artists with discovery, streaming, licensing, and direct track access. - Product features: Royalty-free, 90+ tracks, Streaming, Licensing ## At a glance - **90+:** Royalty-free tracks - **4:** Focused catalog categories - **Live commerce:** Tracks, plans, and access ## A large catalog only works when discovery feels small. SwitchBeats serves creators, brands, artists, and listeners across rap and hip hop, marketing audio, cinematic scores, and sleep or meditation soundscapes. The product has to support browsing and playback without making the catalog feel like a database. The platform connects product discovery with audio previews, individual track purchases, ongoing plans, playlists, downloads, and clear usage rights. SwitchCase owns the product decisions and the operational reality behind the storefront. ## What the product had to solve ### Catalog discovery Categories, release context, search, artwork, and focused descriptions help users find a useful sound without knowing a track name. ### Media experience Fast artwork, responsive browsing, and audio previews have to work together across mobile connections and long sessions. ### Commerce and access Individual purchases and plans require clear entitlements, download behavior, and a path from discovery to lasting access. ### Rights clarity Royalty-free music is only useful when creators can understand how a track can be used before they commit. ## How SwitchCase approached it 1. **Strategy — Design around listening intent.** The catalog is grouped around recognizable jobs: a rap track, campaign audio, a cinematic moment, or a calmer listening experience. 2. **Product — Connect discovery to access.** Previews, product detail, pricing, plans, and library behavior form one product journey instead of separate storefront features. 3. **Engineering — Treat media as infrastructure.** Artwork variants, audio delivery, metadata, and prerendered discovery content are designed as parts of the product surface. 4. **Operations — Keep the catalog alive.** New releases, merchandising, category quality, entitlements, and support continue after the first deployment. ## Production capabilities - Royalty-free audio catalog - Streaming previews - Category and search discovery - Individual track commerce - Monthly plans and downloads - Responsive media delivery ## Frequently asked questions ### Is SwitchBeats Studio a client project? No. It is an owned and operated SwitchCase Studios product, built to exercise the same product, design, engineering, commerce, and operational disciplines used in client work. ### What does the catalog size represent? The live catalog currently contains more than 90 royalty-free tracks across four primary discovery categories. The exact count changes as releases are added. ## Contact Building a content, media, or commerce product? SwitchCase can help shape the product model, make the experience feel obvious, and carry the system into production. [Contact SwitchCase Studios](https://switchcasestudios.com/#contact) # SwitchForms: forms, surveys, and action. > A form and survey platform designed, built, and operated by SwitchCase Studios—connecting visual authoring, native-feeling embeds, focused feedback campaigns, and version-aware response insights to the work that comes next. - Page type: Product / work story - Canonical page: https://switchcasestudios.com/work/switchforms - Summary: SwitchForms combines embeddable forms and surveys, conditional logic, customer feedback, Results Studio, and response workflows. Built by SwitchCase Studios. - Product or related link: [Explore SwitchForms](https://switchforms.app) - Product entity: SwitchForms - Live product: [Try SwitchForms](https://switchforms.app) - Product summary: A form and survey platform for native-feeling embeds, conditional workflows, customer feedback, and version-aware response insights. - Product features: Forms & surveys, Conditional logic, Responsive embeds, Response insights ## At a glance - **Forms + surveys:** From client intake to customer feedback - **Branded delivery:** Public links and controlled embeds - **Question to action:** Versioned results and response workflows ## Collect the right answers. Make them useful. SwitchForms brings everyday forms and finite survey campaigns into one product. Teams can shape client intake, registrations, and other workflows alongside focused customer feedback and research—with conditional logic, reusable choices, and delivery that feels at home in their product. The response loop stays connected from authoring to answering, analysis, and action. Version-aware Results Studio helps teams understand feedback as a survey evolves, while response workflows can carry useful answers into the next step. ## What the product had to solve ### Forms and survey authoring A visual builder, templates, conditional logic, calculations, and reusable options help teams shape forms and feedback campaigns in one workspace. ### Feedback with a clear finish Run finite NPS, CSAT, CES, matrix, and ranking campaigns, then use version-aware Results Studio to follow responses as questions change. ### Native-feeling delivery Responsive public links, themes, and controlled embeds help forms and surveys feel at home across sites and products. ### Responses that become work Stable, versioned response data and APIs connect insight to operations. Scale adds routed workflows and one-time payments for teams ready to move answers into action. ## How SwitchCase approached it 1. **Strategy — Design the whole response loop.** The product model connects authoring forms and surveys, collecting answers, reviewing results, and forwarding useful data instead of optimizing only the builder. 2. **Experience — Make feedback easy to follow.** Clear campaign lifecycles and version-aware results help teams understand feedback over time without losing sight of how questions changed. 3. **Engineering — Separate authoring from answering.** The authenticated workspace and public form and survey experiences have distinct responsibilities, with plan-dependent APIs for connecting response data. 4. **Operations — Connect answers to the next step.** Response insights can feed team workflows; Scale adds routing, approvals, escalations, and one-time payments for more involved operations. ## Production capabilities - Visual form and survey authoring - Conditional logic, calculations, and reusable options - Responsive hosted links and controlled embeds - Growth and Scale survey formats and finite feedback campaigns - Version-aware Results Studio - Secure JSON APIs on Growth and Scale - AI-assisted MCP drafts on paid plans; survey drafts on Growth and Scale - Scale one-time Stripe payments and routed response workflows ## Frequently asked questions ### Is SwitchForms a client project? No. It is an owned SwitchCase Studios product. The studio remains accountable for the product direction, user experience, engineering, releases, billing, operations, and support. ### What makes it more than a form builder? SwitchForms connects forms and feedback campaigns to version-aware results and the work that follows. Plans add capabilities such as secure JSON APIs, AI-assisted drafts, and—on Scale—routed workflows and one-time payments. ### Does SwitchForms support surveys as well as forms? Yes. Growth and Scale support finite feedback campaigns with NPS, CSAT, CES, matrix, ranking, image-choice, and constant-sum questions. Survey drafts through AI-assisted MCP tools are also available on Growth and Scale. ### How are survey campaigns managed? Campaigns close automatically after 14 days by default, configurable up to 90 days; the public page then shows a friendly ended state and stops accepting responses. Version-aware Results Studio keeps results tied to the questions asked. Scale adds quotas, randomization, quality flags, recurring waves with separate reporting windows, and cross-tabs. ## Contact Building a workflow product people need to trust? SwitchCase can turn the complex rules behind the work into a focused product that feels clear from the first interaction through production operations. [Contact SwitchCase Studios](https://switchcasestudios.com/#contact) # SwitchLens keeps the path from raw data to a shared answer visible. > A collaborative analytics workspace designed, built, and operated by SwitchCase Studios—connecting databases and files to visual models, useful reports, dashboards, and controlled embeds. - Page type: Product / work story - Canonical page: https://switchcasestudios.com/work/switchlens - Summary: See how SwitchCase Studios built and operates SwitchLens, a collaborative analytics workspace for data sources, visual modeling, reports, dashboards, and controlled embeds. - Product or related link: [Explore SwitchLens](https://switchlens.app/) - Product entity: SwitchLens - Live product: [Try SwitchLens](https://switchlens.app/) - Product summary: A collaborative analytics workspace that connects databases and files, makes relationships visible, and turns models into reports. - Product features: Data sources, Visual modeling, Report studio, Controlled embeds ## At a glance - **SQL + files:** Connected in one source catalog - **4 moves:** Connect, model, build, share - **Public + private:** Controlled visualization embeds ## Analytics should clarify the path to an answer—not add another data maze. Reporting becomes difficult before a chart appears. Sources live in different systems, relationship logic gets buried, and a published visual can lose the context people need to trust it. SwitchLens treats the workflow as one product system: connect PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, CSV, TXT, XLS, and XLSX sources; curate fields and model relationships; build tables, charts, KPIs, and dashboards; then publish individual visualizations to the intended audience. ## What the product had to solve ### One definitive source catalog A canonical source can serve personal and team workspaces without cloning the credentials and connection material behind it. ### Models that do real work Curated fields, labels, keys, and multi-column relationships stay visible and become part of how the query planner produces an answer. ### Approachable report authoring Drag-and-drop tables, charts, KPIs, and dashboards keep field roles, filters, sorts, and formatting understandable while a report evolves. ### Publishing with boundaries Individual visuals can be embedded for a deliberate public or private audience instead of turning every report into an unrestricted link. ## How SwitchCase approached it 1. **Connect — Bound the source before building on it.** Select the databases, schemas, tables, sheets, or files that belong in the reporting system and keep ownership explicit. 2. **Model — Make relationships inspectable.** Expose fields, types, labels, keys, calculated values, and relationship paths where analysts can understand the model they are using. 3. **Build — Move from question to useful visual.** Use direct manipulation and guided starting points to compose tables, charts, KPIs, and multi-visual dashboards without hiding the logic. 4. **Share — Publish only what the audience should use.** Create a controlled iframe for an individual visualization and evaluate its public or authenticated audience when the viewer loads it. ## Production capabilities - PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, and SQL Server connections - CSV, TXT, XLS, and XLSX file sources - Visual fields, keys, calculations, and relationships - Tables, charts, KPIs, and multi-visual dashboards - Personal and team workspaces with explicit roles - Public and private single-visual embeds ## Frequently asked questions ### Is SwitchLens a client project? No. It is an owned SwitchCase Studios product. The studio remains responsible for its product direction, experience, engineering, releases, security boundaries, billing, and operation. ### What data sources does SwitchLens support? The current product supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, CSV and TXT files, and XLS or XLSX workbooks. Source quantities and automated refresh capabilities vary by plan. ### What can SwitchLens embed? SwitchLens currently publishes one visualization at a time through an iframe. Authors can deliberately choose from available public or private audience modes; it does not present an entire interactive report as one embed. ## Contact Building an analytics product people need to trust? SwitchCase can turn complex data rules into a focused product that stays understandable from source connection through controlled distribution. [Contact SwitchCase Studios](https://switchcasestudios.com/#contact) # Small editor tools for a more focused development loop. > SwitchCase Studios publishes focused developer utilities for Visual Studio Code. The first is VS Code File Filter, an extension that makes it easier to keep relevant files in view while working in a large project. - Page type: Product / work story - Canonical page: https://switchcasestudios.com/work/vscode-extensions - Summary: Explore focused Visual Studio Code utilities from SwitchCase Studios, beginning with VS Code File Filter for pattern-based project navigation. - Product or related link: [Browse extensions](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/publishers/SwitchCaseStudios) - Product entity: VS Code Extensions - Live product: [Browse extensions](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/publishers/SwitchCaseStudios) - Product summary: SwitchCase-built editor tools that remove friction from everyday development workflows. - Product features: File discovery, Pattern filtering, Focused workflows, VS Code ## At a glance - **VS Code File Filter:** Available in the publisher catalog - **Pattern-based:** Find files with familiar wildcards - **Opt-in scanning:** Scans only while a filter is active ## Keep the files that matter close at hand. Large repositories can make a simple navigation task feel noisy. VS Code File Filter adds a dedicated Filtered Files Explorer view where developers can enter filename patterns such as *.ts, *test*, or *.md and focus the tree on matching files. Matching folders expand automatically, and include or exclude directory settings help narrow the search to the parts of a project that matter. The extension scans only while a filter is active, keeping its work tied to an explicit developer action. ## What the extension is designed to do ### Filter with familiar patterns Use filename wildcards such as *.ts, *test*, and *.md to find a working set without changing the project itself. ### Keep results in their project context A dedicated Filtered Files Explorer view presents matches alongside their folder structure, with matching folders expanded for quick access. ### Narrow the scan deliberately Configurable include and exclude directories let developers constrain where the extension looks. ### Work only when filtering Project scanning runs while a filter is active rather than continuously in the background. ## A focused utility, by design 1. **Choose — Set a pattern for the current task.** Enter a filename pattern that reflects the files you need to inspect, such as source files, tests, or documentation. 2. **Scope — Limit the directories in view.** Use include and exclude directory settings to focus the search on relevant areas of the repository. 3. **Navigate — Open matches in the familiar tree.** Review matching files in the dedicated explorer view, with matching folders expanded to keep their context visible. 4. **Clear — Return to the broader project.** When the focused pass is done, clear the filter and continue with the standard workspace view. ## Current catalog focus - VS Code File Filter extension - Dedicated Filtered Files Explorer view - Wildcard and filename-pattern filtering - Configurable include and exclude directories - Automatic expansion of matching folders - Scanning only while a filter is active ## Frequently asked questions ### Is this a client case study? No. This page describes SwitchCase Studios’ own extension catalog: a product line for focused developer utilities, beginning with VS Code File Filter. ### What is available in the catalog now? The publisher catalog currently includes VS Code File Filter. The Marketplace listing is the source of truth for current availability and version. ### Does File Filter scan the project continuously? No. It scans only while a filter is active. Include and exclude directory settings can further narrow where it looks. ## Contact Explore the SwitchCase developer tools. Browse the Visual Studio Marketplace publisher catalog for VS Code File Filter and future focused utilities from SwitchCase Studios. [Contact SwitchCase Studios](https://switchcasestudios.com/#contact) # Companion turns website questions into a useful next step. > An owned SwitchCase Studios product that brings cited, business-grounded answers to your website—with a configurable experience and a clear route to your team when the answer needs a person. - Page type: Product / work story - Canonical page: https://switchcasestudios.com/work/companion - Summary: See how SwitchCase built Companion, a website AI product for cited answers, selected knowledge, flexible embeds, and support follow-up when people need help. - Product or related link: [Explore Companion](https://companion.switchcasestudios.com/) - Product entity: Companion - Live product: [Try Companion](https://companion.switchcasestudios.com/) - Product summary: A website AI companion that turns approved business knowledge into cited answers, useful conversations, and a clear route to your team. - Product features: Cited answers, Knowledge sources, Flexible embeds, Support follow-up ## At a glance - **Cited answers:** Grounded in selected business content - **Inline + floating:** Fits the website experience - **Human routes:** Support links and configured handoffs ## A helpful conversation needs more than a chat bubble. Visitors ask questions at the moment of intent. The experience should help them find a relevant answer and a useful next step without hiding what the answer is grounded in. Companion brings source curation, cited answers, appearance, and review into one workflow so teams can meet visitors with useful knowledge and a clear path to contact when a person is needed. ## What the product had to solve ### Knowledge with boundaries Selected website pages, uploaded documents and text, and configured cloud sources keep the knowledge surface deliberate and reviewable. ### Answers people can check Citations and source links show the context behind an answer, while explicit unsupported-answer routes avoid pretending that every question is covered. ### An experience that belongs Inline or floating embeds can fit the site through color, avatar, greeting, suggested questions, motion, and reduced-motion behavior. ### A feedback loop for the team Repeated questions, helpfulness signals, knowledge gaps, and answer checks give people a way to review and improve the experience. ## How SwitchCase approached it 1. **Curate — Curate approved sources.** Choose the website pages, documents, text, and configured cloud material that the companion is allowed to use. 2. **Check — Check representative questions and citations.** Review source links, repeated questions, and answer checks so the team can inspect where knowledge is useful or incomplete. 3. **Embed — Embed with a contact route.** Place an inline or floating companion on allowed website origins, then configure the support links or handoff path visitors should use next. 4. **Improve — Improve from feedback and refreshes.** Use helpfulness signals, knowledge gaps, answer checks, and source refreshes to keep the experience aligned with the content people need. ## Production capabilities - Selected website and document knowledge - Source and page citations - Inline and floating embeds - Brand and response configuration - Feedback and knowledge-gap review - Support links and configured handoffs ## Frequently asked questions ### Is Companion an owned SwitchCase Studios product? Yes. Companion is an owned SwitchCase Studios product, built and operated as a working example of source-grounded product design, engineering, and ongoing improvement. ### Does Companion replace our website or support team? No. It complements existing content and contact paths by helping visitors find selected knowledge, then giving them a configured route to your team when they need a person. ### Can Companion promise perfect answers? No. Citations and answer checks support review, while response rules can make uncertainty and contact escalation explicit when the selected knowledge does not support an answer. ## Contact Building an AI experience people can trust? SwitchCase can help shape the knowledge boundary, interaction model, and production system behind an AI experience that stays clear about what it knows and what people should do next. [Contact SwitchCase Studios](https://switchcasestudios.com/#contact) ## Research and whitepapers ### Make the Next Click Easier How useful website chat turns questions into progress—with real-world evidence, honest measurement, and a practical plan for earning trust. [Read the whitepaper](https://switchcasestudios.com/whitepapers/make-the-next-click-easier.html) ### Stack the Change, Not the Risk Where stacked pull requests outperform the one-branch mega-PR, where they add friction, and how to pilot GitHub’s public-preview workflow without multiplying risk or CI spend. [Read the whitepaper](https://switchcasestudios.com/whitepapers/stack-the-change-not-the-risk.html) ### Don’t Manage the Spark Out of It How micromanagement, weak feedback loops, and unclear leadership drain software teams—and how ground-level insight becomes innovation. [Read the whitepaper](https://switchcasestudios.com/whitepapers/dont-manage-the-spark-out.html) ### People First, AI Where It Pays Why replacement-first AI programs stall, where human-led teams produce measurable gains, and how to stop weak pilots before they become expensive habits. [Read the whitepaper](https://switchcasestudios.com/whitepapers/people-first-ai-where-it-pays.html) ### Own the Niche, Rent the Rest Why the fastest-growing software companies own one specific gap, rent commodity infrastructure, and know exactly when that math should flip. [Read the whitepaper](https://switchcasestudios.com/whitepapers/own-the-niche-rent-the-rest.html) ### AI Is a Power Tool, Not a New Hire What three landmark studies reveal about real productivity gains, uneven outcomes, and the human judgment still required at the controls. [Read the whitepaper](https://switchcasestudios.com/whitepapers/ai-accelerator-not-replacement.html) ### Modern Uses for AI in the Workplace Practical, employee-first workflows for increasing output and quality without erasing the value of the people doing the work. [Read the whitepaper](https://switchcasestudios.com/whitepapers/modern-uses-for-ai-in-the-workplace.html) ### Cloud Migration: The True Cost A clearer look at direct and hidden migration costs, the metrics that matter, and how to keep long-term value ahead of the bill. [Read the whitepaper](https://switchcasestudios.com/whitepapers/cloud-migration-the-true-cost.html) ### Scaling Smart in the Cloud How to match infrastructure to demand, protect performance, and stop paying for capacity the business does not need. [Read the whitepaper](https://switchcasestudios.com/whitepapers/scaling-smart-in-the-cloud.html) ## Contact - Website: https://switchcasestudios.com/ - Email: hello@switchcasestudios.com - Phone: +1 (313) 444-0708