total trans-bear-ancy
You see the work while it is still wet. A build you can open and play in the first week, not a reveal at the end — and if something is not working, we say so while there is still time to change it.
We design apps and games people love — and help companies do the same.
Making big things from small beginnings. AI-forward product design studio, established 2012.
Serving San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles and New York
What we make
13 projectsApps and games of our own, designed and built here. 5 of them open in a browser right now — no install, no account.
Time Shatter
Stop time. Shoot. Shatter. A first-person time-manipulation arcade shooter you play in the browser — no install, no account. See the project
Stack
One place to log every film and show you watch, with per-episode tracking, a curated Shelf, and recommendations from people you actually trust. See the projectNo capture yet
Bluff Chess
Chess with a poker face. Every piece but the king is hidden, so every move is a claim — move honestly or bluff, and call your opponent’s bluffs. See the project
Dustline
A real-time strategy game built for a phone: mine Ore and Ember, build a base, and out-macro the opposition. See the project
Rapt
A TikTok-style vertical feed of famous novels. Each card is a short AI-generated mood film with the book’s hook flashing over it as kinetic captions. See the project
Why choose us
We build what customers and players love — and help you do the same.
Fifteen years in product, four of them at Apple and six at Google. We ship our own apps and games, built with AI, and help companies and startups ship theirs.
What we promise
everything is pawsible
AI has collapsed the distance between an idea and something you can hold. We take that literally: a prototype in days, a playable build in weeks, and no attachment to the one we throw away.
paws and effect
Shipping is where the learning starts. We instrument what we build, watch what people actually do with it, and let that pick what gets made next.
The puns are original. So is the spelling.
Product consulting
We also work on other people’s products. Short engagements, and you work with the person doing the work.
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Find the product
Discovery, positioning and the hard edit — what this is, who it is for, and what to leave out.
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Prove it with a prototype
Something people can use, built to answer a specific question rather than a deck that argues the answer.
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Build with AI, properly
Getting an AI-assisted process to produce a real product — the specs, the guardrails and the review that keep speed from becoming debt.
What our clients say
These are from our advertising work. Different craft, same way of working.
Mischa is a creative marketing mind dedicated to helping his partners find more business and solve problems using outside-the-box solutions. He is analytical and dedicated to helping optimize our online business. I highly recommend Mischa's work.
I had the pleasure of working with Mischa to adapt our business to Google's newest and hottest products. He not only made the on-boarding seamless, but never ceased to find solutions to what most advertisers considered unsolvable problems. And the advantage that we now have over the competition speaks loudly of it. His approach not only helped grow our revenue 5-fold, it has changed the way we approach the digital landscape outside of Google products. He also set new standards of tracking offline sales driven by online media. He is always ahead of the curve on the rapidly evolving world of online media, especially with today's hot topic of attribution models.
Our partnership with Mischa is the most valuable we have ever had with Google or any other partner.
Mischa's competitive insights and quick turnaround time to our requests graduated him from ordinary "Google representative" to "strategic partner" within my first few months working with him. He was able to understand the needs of our client and their business goals within a few short meetings, and only focused on what he knew would work for the kind of Telecommunications Company he was working with.
Get in touch
Tell us what you are trying to build and who it is for, and we will come back to you.