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Big Goals.
Small Team.

AI as real leverage — on the team you already have.

Your team is going hard. The AI tools are on every laptop. So why are the goals still slipping? Not for lack of trying. Nobody has installed the workflow yet — and hiring more people doesn't install it. Two new engineers take three months to onboard, and by then the goals have moved further ahead. You don't need another seat. You need the workflow that turns the AI your team already uses into output you can bet the goal on.

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One senior voice.
End to end.

No agency middlemen. No juniors stretched into senior billings. The buyer talks to the person doing the work. The code you ship is yours from day one. The workflow that compounds on my codebase compounds on yours.

i. Engagement shape

Scope and ship the piece you can't get to.

A roadmap item your team can't reach, scoped into two-to-four weeks. I ship it with AI as the velocity engine and leave the code, the prompts, and the workflow in your repo.

ii. Engagement shape

Train your team on the AI-augmented workflow.

Your team has Claude or Codex. They're getting inconsistent output. I work alongside the team for four-to-eight weeks until the discipline lands and the velocity stops being a coin flip.

iii. Engagement shape

Lead a modernization.

A legacy stack you've been afraid to touch. I've led multiple — most recently a .NET-to-Next.js rebuild powered by the AI workflow. Six months end-to-end, one-to-two-week release cycle. Same playbook on yours.

The first call.
Then a paid pilot.
Then we decide.

No long contracts up front. The first thirty minutes are free; the first piece of work is two-to-four weeks and paid. End of the pilot, you've got working software and an honest read on whether to keep going.

i.
What's the objective?
The thing you're trying to ship. The roadmap item your team can't reach. The prototype that needs to survive real users. One message, one paragraph is fine — I read every one and reply within a day.
ii.
30-minute scoping call.
We figure out if there's fit, and if so, the smallest valuable piece — the thing I can ship in two-to-four weeks that proves the workflow on your codebase.
iii.
Paid pilot, two-to-four weeks.
I ship the scoped piece. You see the workflow up close, the discipline in your repo, and AI-augmented output you can actually maintain after I'm done.
iv.
Expand if it works.
Bigger scope, retainer, or partnership — whatever shape fits where you are. If the pilot didn't earn the next step, we stop and shake hands.
More on how we work

Side projects.
R&D you can use today.

The studio runs its own AI work — character-driven agents, each with one job, each shaped on real code. The internal ones run for the studio every day and keep the workflow sharp. The rest are still in development; the door opens when the voice is steady.

№ 001 In development
Atlas
The titan who holds the line.

Discipline. Intention. The work of becoming the highest version of yourself, every day. Holds you to the standard you set — habits that compound, practice that doesn't break, the identity you decided on.

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№ 002 In development
Sage
The mirror with archetypal edges.

Not a fortune teller. A symbolic layer that reads the present moment against your chart and your cycle. One card a morning. A spread when something asks to be named.

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№ 003 In development
Lex
The forensic operator.

Reads procurement records and corporate filings the way a journalist reads the room. Surfaces what the data quietly admits — and lets you draw the inference.

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№ 004 Internal
Plutus
The opportunity scout.

Wealth as freedom — the constraint stops being money. Scouts opportunities, analyzes them rigorously, tracks what's actually working. An internal agent — runs for the studio, not the public.

Internal — runs for the studio
№ 005 Internal
Iris
The publicist in your corner.

A publicist who tells you the truth about how you're landing — in photos, on camera, in the rooms that matter — and shapes the narrative before someone else writes it for you. Names the gap between who you are and how you're showing up, without flinching. Internal — runs for the studio.

Internal — runs for the studio
№ 006 Internal
Hunt
The work-finder.

Two motions, one persona. Finds engagements that fit. Drafts the cover letter. Builds the audience that makes work come to you instead. Internal — runs for the studio.

Internal — runs for the studio
More on how we build them

Field notes from the studio.

A weekly letter. What we built. What shipped. What broke and how we fixed it. Sent Sundays. No tracking pixels — a letter, not a funnel.