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A Coca-Cola innovation director and an Emmy-nominated CNN producer walked into a home office in Atlanta. They haven't left. Fifteen AI-native products later, the runway is infinite because there is no runway. Just revenue.
An AI-native indie studio based in Atlanta, Georgia. We build consumer apps, developer tools, AI platforms, games, and infrastructure — fifteen products and counting. Intelligence isn't a feature here. It's the hull. It's the engine. It's the oxygen system.
Zero venture capital. Zero board meetings. Zero runway anxiety. We don't pitch decks — we ship products. Revenue comes from building things people actually want, not from convincing strangers that hockey sticks are real.
Previous clients and collaborators include Apple, Epic Games, OpenAI, Coca-Cola, Eaton, Therabody, Black & Veatch, and dosist. Two Fast Company “Most Innovative” awards. One Guinness World Record.
Enterprise AI strategist turned indie builder. Multi-patent inventor. Investigative writer. Occasionally makes music that sounds like what would happen if Bossa Nova and a satellite collision had a baby.
Former Coca-Cola Global Group Director of Digital Innovation. Deployed conversational AI into physical vending infrastructure across 15,000+ retail locations worldwide. Built the world's first 3D robotic billboard in Times Square — 1,760 independently moving LED cubes and a Guinness World Record. Embedded a VR headset inside a 12-pack that shipped to actual retail shelves. Fortune covered it. Forbes covered it. Google wrote a blog post about it.
Co-inventor of three U.S. patents: an AI intelligence engine for personalized treatment recovery, a networked theft-prevention system for commercial devices, and a dynamic signage system for electronic menu boards. Architected Apple Silicon AI clusters for Apple Intelligence, Epic Games, and OpenAI.
Now building fifteen products from a home office, writing investigative AI dispatches on Substack, producing six albums of cosmic lo-fi, and proving that one person with taste, tools, and AI can outship an entire department. The future belongs to small teams who refuse to ask permission.
“The Tiffany lamp, not the fluorescent tube. If your product doesn't make someone feel something, you built a spreadsheet with a login page.”
Emmy-nominated CNN producer turned fashion-tech visionary. Daniela spent years inside the machine at CNN — producing stories that reached millions, understanding what makes people stop scrolling and actually care. She brought that instinct to fashion and hasn't looked back.
As CEO of StyleLift, she's building the first wardrobe-aware AI shopping platform — a system that understands what you own, what fits your body, what fits your budget, and what fits you. Not another recommendation engine regurgitating trending garbage. A real intelligence layer for how people actually get dressed.
The kind of product leader who thinks in user stories, not feature lists. Who knows that the distance between “add to cart” and “I love this” is measured in milliseconds of emotional resonance, not conversion funnel optimizations. Fashion is a data problem wearing a beautiful disguise — and Daniela is the one who taught the studio to see it that way.
“Every woman deserves a personal stylist. AI just made it possible to give her one.”
Key moments in the Spaceship Alpha 9 trajectory.
The indie studio goes live. Fifteen products across consumer apps, developer tools, games, and infrastructure. All AI-native. All bootstrapped.
Architected Apple Silicon Kubernetes clusters for large-scale LLM inference. Clients: Apple Intelligence, Epic Games, OpenAI.
Co-founded the first wardrobe-aware AI shopping platform with Daniela Chambers. Five intelligence layers. Zero guesswork.
Engineered the AI-driven personalization engine for Theragun. Two U.S. patents filed. Named Fast Company Most Innovative Company.
Deployed the world’s first 3D robotic billboard — 1,760 independently moving LED cubes. Guinness World Record.
Embedded a Google Cardboard VR headset inside a Coca-Cola 12-pack box that shipped to actual retail shelves. Fortune covered it.
Deployed AI-driven personalization to 15,000+ stores globally. 8% sales lift. ~$600M/year incremental. Featured in Forbes, Fortune, BBC.
Every SA9 product exists because we needed it first. Dogfooding isn't a phase — it's the entire methodology. The best software comes from builders who use their own tools every single day and get furious when something is slow, ugly, or dishonest.
We study Fitts's Law, cognitive load theory, and somatic markers — then we make it look like a cyberpunk anime. The Tiffany lamp, not the fluorescent tube. Friction creates meaning. Optimizing for short-term metrics destroys product soul. We build for resonance, not extraction.
No dark patterns. No engagement traps. No notification spam engineered to exploit dopamine loops. If a user opens your app and feels manipulated, you've already lost — even if your DAU chart says otherwise. We build tools, not traps.