Map the Intelligence
We start by understanding what AI does in your product and what humans need to see, control, and override. We map the decision boundaries — where the machine acts autonomously and where humans stay in the loop.
The Cockpit for Intelligence
Every AI agent needs a human interface. We build AI-native products where intelligence is the core experience — not a bolt-on.
We build our own products at the AI frontier — your product gets everything we learn.
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Our Process
- AI agents need humans in the loop. Autonomous doesn't mean unsupervised. Every agent needs approval flows, override controls, and feedback mechanisms. The app is where trust is built.
- The interface IS the product. Your users don't interact with your API or your model. They interact with the screen. A brilliant AI behind a bad interface is a bad product.
- From dashboards to copilots. The old app was a CRUD form. The new app is a collaborator — it anticipates, suggests, acts. We build that transition.
Prototype the Interaction
How do humans and AI collaborate in this product? We prototype the interaction patterns — copilot flows, approval mechanisms, feedback loops — and test them with real users before writing production code.
Ship the Cockpit
The minimum viable intelligence interface. We ship the first version that lets real users work with real AI — not a demo, not a prototype, but a product that earns trust through use.
Train the Loop
The product gets smarter through use. We instrument how humans and AI actually work together, identify where the AI fails and where humans add friction, and iterate. Every cycle makes the cockpit tighter.
What we build
Intelligence Interfaces
Embedded AI Copilots
The core of every AI-native product. We design and build copilot interfaces that let AI assist, suggest, and act — while keeping humans in control. Custom-trained to your domain, integrated with your backend.
On-Device Intelligence
Run inference on the device itself — no round-trip to the cloud. We deploy models to iOS, Android, and edge hardware for real-time personalization, predictions, and adaptations that work offline.
Voice & Multimodal Interfaces
Natural voice controls, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and conversational flows. We build hands-free AI interfaces using Whisper, ElevenLabs, or your preferred stack — with fallbacks and analytics built in.
Generative Media
Embed on-demand image, video, and audio generation directly in your product. DALL·E, Veo, FLUX, Whisper and more — with moderation, provenance tracking, and seamless UX.
We eat our own cooking
Our own apps
From Pasteboard in the early iOS days to AI agent infrastructure today, we ship our own products. They’re where we discover what works — before any client pays for the lesson.
Zeit — World Clock & Time Zones
Every timezone on one strip. Built and shipped by us — native on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
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Daslab — Your AI control center
Link your data, APIs, files and hardware into scenes, then run AI agents against them — your control center for everything.
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Shortcut AI
An agent before agents were a category — an AI assistant inside Apple Notes, Telegram, WhatsApp and Line.
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Discotalk
A social app built around AI image generation — create, share, and discover.
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Techmemer
The freshest tech memes, delivered daily. A native iOS feed for the timeline.
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Pasteboard
Live clipboard sync across your Apple devices — years before Apple shipped Universal Clipboard.
ARC-AGI — Frontier Reasoning, Playable
A native app for the ARC-AGI benchmark — the test that measures genuine reasoning in AI. Browse and solve the puzzles yourself, rendered as living color grids.
Frontier AIReasoningiOS
Folio - Curated Digital Art
A boutique digital art marketplace built with an LA designer collective. iOS and web, featuring collaborations with Nicola Formichetti and events in NYC and LA.
Marketplaces
Studio XO - Wearable Intelligence
IoT and embedded systems for the fashion tech company behind Lady Gaga's Flying Dress. Fiber optic LEDs, Bluetooth Low Energy, and app-controlled animations — presented at New York Fashion Week.
FashionIoT
Apfel - Industrial Storage Automation
iPad interface for Apfel's automated storage towers - fully automated high-bay warehouses used in factories across Germany. Real-time inventory management and remote control of the tower's robotic extractor system.
ManufacturingIoT
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