Creative Studio & Workshop House

Turn memory
into myth

A story-led creative studio for human writing practice, disciplined AI engineering, and careful enquiry into the future of creativity, memory, and technology.

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The studio

Our mission is to help people, communities, and organisations shape meaningful stories and useful digital systems through human-led creative practice, disciplined AI-assisted engineering, and careful, respectful enquiry into how emerging technologies should be used.

Hero's Journey Creative — Aotearoa New Zealand

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AI Product / Trust InfrastructureLive product

VouchMeApp

A multi-role reference platform for candidates, referees, and recruiters — built as a portable trust layer for the AI-shaped labour market.

Multi-role SaaS · Supabase · Stripe · OAuth · Private audio · UAT

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AI Product / Creative CommerceLive product

HeroBoardMaker.com

A lightweight AI-assisted wallpaper studio that turns strengths, goals, wins, and future-self prompts into personalised confidence boards.

No-account flow · Prompt pipeline · Stripe checkout · Image generation

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Live Experiment / Participatory UniversePre-registered experiment

Te Aho Matatū

How would you ever know if an AI became conscious? Te Aho Matatū is a live, pre-registered experiment — born in dialogue with three AI systems — that any conscious thing, human or AI, can attempt. If the effect appears, consciousness has something to point to.

Multi-model dialogue · Adversarial AI critique · Experimental protocol · Live dashboard · Filmed sessions · Māori epistemology

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AI Companion / Windows PrototypeInteractive prototype

AĪEĀ — AI Executive Assistant

An interactive Windows 11 desktop prototype showing AĪEĀ working quietly at the edge of your screen: guiding, routing, approving, monitoring, and accounting for everything she does.

React · Vite · ElevenLabs voice · Web Audio API · Windows 11 context

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Game Concept / Interactive PrototypeConcept / Prototype

Legends Barbershop

A fully realised 16-bit-style barbershop tycoon concept — box art, UI screens, a six-barber roster, and a playable React prototype, designed end to end through AI-assisted prompting.

Retro UI design · Character & world design · React prototype · framer-motion

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Fiction Staging Platform / SaaSLive product

Middlescribe

A publishing-prep layer for world-rich fiction — manuscript management, living glossary, paid per-chapter beta reads, and multi-channel export, built end to end by a solo founder using AI-assisted development.

Next.js · Supabase · Stripe · Vercel · TypeScript · Vitest

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Tell us what you're working on — a memoir, a cohort, a story world, an archive.

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