INDEPENDENT VENTURE DESIGN STUDIO
AUSTIN, TX / WORKING EVERYWHERE
Systems that
don’t exist yet.
We explore consequential problems.
Design what should exist instead.
Then make enough of it to find out.
START WITH THE SYSTEM.
SEE WHAT IT BECOMES.
A DIFFERENT STARTING POINT
Objects are
only half
the story.
The interesting part is what happens between them.
EXPLORE THREE SYSTEMS →
A shared operational world.
People, agents, and software coordinate around a shared situation. The system gives their actions a common context.
Many artifacts. One creative reality.
Characters, rules, and relationships form a coherent canon. New stories can emerge without losing the intent behind them.
The journey belongs to the pod.
Separate the thing being moved from the vehicle moving it. Different transporters carry one modular unit across a coordinated journey.
SELECTED WORK / DIFFERENT STATES
Different systems.
Same instinct.
INDUSTRY 5
Enterprise systems
What if the enterprise were designed for humans and intelligent agents from the beginning?
02 / CompanyCANON ENGINE
Narrative systems
What happens to creative control when content becomes nearly free to generate?
03 / ExplorationNŪMŪV
Transportation systems
What if we stopped designing transportation around the vehicle?
A COMPANY. AN EXPLORATION. AN OPEN SYSTEM. EACH IS A VALID OUTCOME.
01 / THE UNDERLYING QUESTION
If none of this
existed yet,
how should the
system work?
Most innovation begins with a market, a category, or a technology stack.
We begin one question earlier.
Start somewhere elseMETHOD / FROM QUESTION TO CONSEQUENCE
The vehicle follows
the system.
Explore.
Find the consequential question underneath the familiar problem.
Design.
Model what should exist, starting from first principles.
Make.
Build enough to test the logic and expose what is missing.
Form.
Decide what should carry it into the world. A company is one possibility.
OPEN TO THE RIGHT QUESTION
What should
exist instead?
Perhaps you know a domain extraordinarily well. Perhaps an existing system has reached its limit.
Good places to start.
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