Some products begin with a clear roadmap. Others begin with a question.
Can our devices make us feel more present, not more distracted?
In a world where most consumer technology is designed to capture attention, restraint becomes a radical product principle. We’re interested in devices that support intention, focus, and a more humane relationship to the tools we carry every day.
What if our most intimate data could stay close to home?
As AI becomes more personal, questions of privacy, memory, and ownership become more urgent. We’re exploring intelligent systems that can preserve what matters without asking people to surrender their most sensitive information to the cloud.
What a technology could support democracy and progress?
As democracy happens more and more online, questions of voice and representation take on new weight. We're exploring how computational tools can widen who gets heard: participatory budgeting, deliberation systems that find common ground, civic infrastructure that treats people as collaborators rather than data points.
The goal is technology that deepens democracy and keeps power close to the people it belongs to.
We collaborate with ambitious teams exploring technologies, behaviors, and interaction models that are still taking shape.
Through research, prototyping, speculative design, and technical experimentation, we help transform uncertain ideas into tangible systems people can understand, test, and respond to.
Truly, incredible partners. I bring you guys up in every conversation last few days… Really couldn’t ask for anything else.
Connected Hardware & Infrastructure
As connected devices become more deeply embedded in everyday life, we’re increasingly interested in how hardware can shape behavior, attention, and long-term systems of care.
Light Phone III
For Light, we helped shape a phone designed around intentional technology use rather than engagement maximization.
The result is a device experience designed to support intentional technology use and help people feel more present, focused, and connected to the world around them.
For Mill, we embedded directly with the product and firmware teams to help bring an IoT-connected kitchen system to life.
Working across mobile apps, backend infrastructure, Bluetooth onboarding, and AWS IoT architecture, we helped create a seamless consumer experience around a highly sophisticated environmental system.
For Mirror, we embedded with the team to turn a single hand-drawn sketch into a new category of connected fitness hardware. We ran concepting workshops to define the core principles of the experience: convenience, motivation, and community. Then we designed a UI built around the device's reflective geometry.
We pushed to a high-fidelity, presentation-ready experience that moved smoothly between device and mobile, letting the team put a polished design in front of investors early. The product was acquired by Lululemon for $500M.
We’ve partnered with teams building products that sit at the intersection of hardware, software, infrastructure, and culture: Devices that do more than collect data or automate tasks, instead helping people relate differently to their time, homes, habits, and environments.
Alongside client partnerships, we’ve been conducting ongoing research into local LLMs, sovereign infrastructure, and privacy-first AI architectures.
Through speculative prototypes and technical experimentation, we’ve explored how intelligent systems might operate outside the dominant paradigm of centralized cloud platforms and surveillance-driven data collection.
Our experiments span local model deployment, encrypted memory systems, speaker diarization pipelines, vector databases, graph-based knowledge architectures, embedded hardware concepts, and conversational interfaces.
This work has grown into Family Intelligence, an ongoing exploration into home-based AI systems that help families preserve stories, relationships, and generational memory without surrendering ownership or observability.
We believe the next generation of AI products will require more than powerful models alone. They will demand systems that are legible, trustworthy, emotionally resonant, and designed with long-term human consequences in mind.
As AI systems become increasingly embedded within professional workflows, Harvey is helping define what trust, clarity, and usefulness look like inside the legal industry.
We partnered with their team to shape a visual and motion system that communicates speed, intelligence, and adaptability while building confidence around a rapidly evolving technology category.
As supplement brands navigate growing demands around sourcing, compliance, and speed to market, Ingredient AI is helping define what operational clarity looks like for the industry. Their platform brings formulation, regulatory, and commercial workflows into a single operating system built for the way modern supplement companies actually work.
We partnered with their team to help launch that operating system, shaping a product and brand language that communicates precision, speed, and trust while building confidence in a fast-moving and highly regulated category.
As civic life moves further into digital spaces, we're increasingly interested in how technology can strengthen bonds between people and the institutions that serve them. We build tools that make public services more legible, participation more accessible, and trust easier to earn, treating clarity and care as design problems.
CivLab
As civic systems increasingly move online, CivLab explored how digital infrastructure might support more accessible, participatory, and community-driven forms of governance. The project focused on designing tools and experiences that help people engage more meaningfully with the systems shaping their neighborhoods, institutions, and collective futures.
As more of public life moves into algorithmic feeds and isolated digital routines, we’ve become increasingly interested in how physical spaces, software systems, and cultural programming can work together to foster meaningful connection.
Index is our ongoing experiment in designing infrastructure for creative community: a network of spaces, tools, events, and operational systems built to support collaboration, participation, and long-term cultural exchange.
Alongside opening and operating the space itself, we’ve designed and developed the digital systems that underpin programming, publishing, and organizational transparency.
For us, Index represents a broader belief that the next generation of innovation will not only happen through screens and software, but through thoughtfully designed environments that help people gather, create, and build relationships in real life.
