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Team · Every project, all of us

The people behind the work.

We don’t scale the roster. We scale what a small group can ship by keeping the pod tight, the repo clean, and the hand-offs at zero. If you hire us, you work with these people — every week, on the same codebase.

The studio

The core team.

  • Masshi Okubo
    / 01
    CEO & Founder

    Masshi Okubo

    Sets direction for the studio and for the partnerships that carry each project from pitch to ship.

  • Colin Buckley
    / 02
    COO & Co-founder

    Colin Buckley

    Runs operations and the commercial machine — pricing, contracts, and the rails that keep delivery on time.

  • Kenrick Kho
    / 03
    Chief AI Advisor

    Kenrick Kho

    Sets the AI strategy across the portfolio — model choice, evaluation, and the research-to-production path.

  • Kurt Gabayan
    / 04
    Chief Technology Officer

    Kurt Gabayan

    Owns the technical architecture. Builds the load-bearing systems the rest of the team ships against.

How we work · Day to day

Small pod.
Short loops.

/ Cadence

Weekly demo. Daily push.

Tuesday demo call with you. Between demos, every push lands in your repo the moment it lands in ours.

/ Access

Shared repo, shared Slack.

You get the repo, the staging env, and a dedicated channel with the whole pod. No relays, no SDR.

/ Scope

One pod, one engagement.

We take one primary engagement at a time. When we are yours, we are yours — not split across four clients.

/ Tools

Linear · Figma · Claude Code.

Linear for the plan, Figma for the few things that need it, Claude Code for the rest.

/ Review

Every phase has a go / no-go.

Four reviews, four exits. If things are not working we end the engagement cleanly and you keep what we shipped.

/ After

90 days on the bridge.

Post-launch on-call is included. Incident runbooks, pager rota, quarterly review — then a clean handoff if you want it.

/ Hiring · Closed until Q4 2026

We’re not hiring. Here’s why.

Every team we admire stayed small on purpose. We’d rather ship one excellent project at a time than run a ten-person consultancy. When we open a new seat it will be because the work demands it — not because we landed a bigger contract.

  • We open a seat maybe every 18 months. When we do, it’s narrow and specific.
  • We hire from our extended network first. Contributors on our open-source work, people who’ve freelanced with us before.
  • When we run a public search, it goes on this page — not LinkedIn, not Indeed. Check back.
  • For now: collaborate with us on an engagement. That’s how most of our future teammates will meet us.
  • Work with us on a project →Notify me when a seat opens