Independent studio / Human-directed, machine-assisted

Tools for thinking.
Machines for making.

Local AI, useful software, and machine-made media. A workshop for turning new capabilities into things worth using.

Explore the work
Original studio illustration: connected rings, signals, and a human in the loop.
Fig. 01 — An instrument, not an autopilot.
01 / Close to the machine

Local AI

Models on your own hardware. Harnesses, inference, and the boundaries that make them usable.

02 / Built to be used

Tools & evaluation

Small, inspectable software. Tests that tell us what happened, not what the agent said happened.

03 / Sound meets picture

Machine-made media

Creative systems for moving images and sound. Human direction, explicit inputs, deliberate assembly.

On the workbench

Selected work

All work & notes ↗
01 / Local AI
Public source · Experimental

Horizon Code

A local-first coding harness. Typed tools, bounded agent loops, and a verification gate before the work is called finished.

02 / Machine-made media
Public source · Early alpha

Sloperator

A show engine that treats sound and picture as things to assemble carefully: frozen inputs, explicit timelines, and checked outputs.

03 / Tools & evaluation
Local prototype

GolfBench

One model, one code-golf problem, one independently judged program. A small test bench for inspecting agent results rather than trusting the transcript.

Graphic studies by the studio. These are visual identities, not software screenshots or measured results.

The name is an ambition. Not a claim.

Less magic.
More making.

Automation is useful when you can see what it did. We build, test, inspect, and keep the human decisions visible.

How we work ↗Earlier lab notes ↗