We're a creative technology studio
that delivers. Fast.

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Our work speaksfor itself.

Shipping product is what we do, and what we've always done.

We've spent twenty years working this way inside some of the largest companies in the world, across search and AI, automotive, payments and healthcare. Building products and leveraging creative technology. Holding partnerships together long enough to actually see products delivered. Small Machines AI is the evolution of all of those experiences, packaged into a studio that can't wait to do the same for you.

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What we can do for you

We specialize in AI product and experience delivery. We also confidently deliver full stack solutions that are clean, reliable, and tasteful.

01
Experience & Product Design
Product Design · UX/UI · Prototyping

Building products and experiences that hit the mark by ensuring we are going after the right problems. Crafting tasteful solutions that people actually want to use.

02
Storytelling
Narrative · Positioning · Activation

We've watched good work die in a bad readout. So the story gets built next to the product: the version you tell your board, and the one your customer repeats.

03
Agentic Systems
Autonomous Agents · Workflow Automation

We've built agentic solutions that have scaled across thousands of users and can do the same for you. You'll get custom crafted solutions that fit your specific use case, not something generic and off the shelf.

04
Retrieval & Knowledge
RAG · Grounded Chat · Contextual AI

We build systems that leverage your provided datasets and do it in a way that results in zero hallucinations. Combine that with strategic decision trees and the result is a search experience that has no dead ends.

05
Generated Content
Image · Video · Voice · Sound · Music

Image, video, voice, sound, music. We leverage all of the latest tools and use them as soon as they become available. We pride ourselves on what matters most, quality content and good taste.

06
Full-Stack Build
Frontend · Backend · Production

Where we built our expertise. Fifteen of those years writing quality code end to end. We're not vibe coding. We're making strategic structural decisions based on a career of building.

how we can help

We'll start witha Design Sprint.

We'll meet you where you are at and identify the right problem, how to solve it, and how we'll know we've hit the mark.

Next, we'll buildsomething real.

The generated career pivot report on an iPad: matched roles, salary ranges and the companies hiring for them
The Career Pivot tool on a MacBook: the landing page, with the career advisor open beside it mid-conversation
An analytics dashboard on iPhone: sessions, average session time, applications started, trending searches and sentiment

Not just a prototype. Something that can actually go to production. Purpose built to solve the problems identified during the design sprint, with the metrics to prove that we've hit the mark.

Then, we'll give youthe story to sell it.

A video you can press play on and get the reaction you're looking for. Empowering you to step on stage with confidence and win the room.

Ready to start?Try Sprint Zero, free.

  1. Identify the problem. A short, agent-led conversation aimed to help you identify your problem statement. Takes about five minutes.
  2. Get your brief. Your problem statement explained, summarizing everything we discussed. Yours to keep.
  3. Meet the team, if you want.Take the next step from your brief and we'll reach out to set up an introduction. We're here whenever the timing feels right.
What we stand for

We choose to do good work with genuine, good people. We build products and experiences meant to put good into the world.

And when the work is done, we want a story we're proud to tell, together with the people we built it for.

That's the studio we set out to build. It's the same standard we bring to every partnership.

Erik WarrenFounder

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Whether you have a fully scoped project or just a problem you can't stopthinking about, we want to hear about it. We'll be honest about what wecan build, and whether we're the right fit.

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