Founded by an artist and engineer, we make work aimed at human flourishing.
Quiet Machine.
Relentlessly Curious.
What we do
Tech
We design and build technology around people, not the other way around. Apps that encourage understanding. AI systems that reliably handle real (boring) work. Internal tools that tie messy operations together. We solve problems that have been annoying people for years.
Creative
We also do websites, digital media, branding, cultural work, and things that don’t have names yet. If it lives in the world of beauty or bits, there’s a good chance it’s in our wheelhouse.
What we believe
Modern technology is insanely awesome. By designing with intention, we believe it can make people’s lives better. We also understand that rapid change can be crushing to the human spirit, especially when people are treated as an afterthought.
We aim to reconcile those two realities through a set of core working principles.
- Build stuff that is useful to people.
- Make things easy to use, then beautiful.
- Start simple. Build on what works.
- Be fair. Be honest. Be candid.
- Stay relentlessly curious.
Founder
Mark Warren Jacques has spent decades working as an artist and designer, but technology has never been his second act. He’s a lifelong nerd, builder, and award-winning inventor. He approaches technical problems with an artist’s mind and an engineer’s discipline.
First principles thinking can get you pretty far. Curiosity, creativity, and soul can take you somewhere new.
Over the course of his career, Mark has worked with some of the world’s most recognized brands:
