Applied AI studio

We build and operateproduction AI systems.

Lanier is a small studio that designs, builds, and operates production AI software — web platforms, mobile apps, agent fleets, content pipelines. We ship our own products and run a handful of deep client engagements. No chat widgets. No slide decks. The actual system your company runs on.

Rails·Next.js·React Native·Postgres·Agent fleets
What we do

Build it, operate it, or size it up.

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Build · 6–12 weeks

AI product builds

A working system in market, owned by you. We design the architecture, ship the MVP, and stay on to operate it. Recent builds: a multilingual AI concierge for Costa Blanca rentals, a language-learning app with an in-house content pipeline, a marketing OS that runs on scheduled agents.

  • Fixed scope, in-market in weeks — not a prototype
  • We keep operating what we ship
Operate · one slot at a time

Fractional CTO

For organizations with a real platform and no senior engineer who owns it. We embed for a year or more, run the roadmap, manage the stack, and answer for the system end-to-end. Currently: a decade-long engagement operating the public platform and internal hub for a national tourism association.

  • Senior ownership of the platform, capped hours
  • One client per slot so it stays deep
Assess · $500 / $1,000

AI assessment

Two days of looking at what you've got, two pages of what's worth doing about it. A $500 written assessment or a $1,000 half-day workshop. No sales pitch attached — the deliverable stands on its own.

  • $500 written, $1,000 workshop
  • You keep the plan whether or not we work together
Selected work

Products and platforms in production.

A mix of our own products and deep client engagements — all running live today. Open one in a new tab, then read what went into it.

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Children's education

Train Your Brain

AI-powered children's education. Live multi-tenant platform with story generation, photo-based homework help, and family subscriptions.

Rails + React Native
Language learning · our product

PollyStop

A language-learning app that blocks your phone until you finish a lesson — backed by a three-agent content pipeline that ships Spanish stories and vertical-video shorts on a weekly cadence. We built it. We operate it.

Expo + multi-agent pipeline
How we work

Three things you can count on.

We operate what we build.

Every system on this page is running in production today. Most of them we still ship to. The site is a list of things that exist, not things we could make.

Small surface area, deep engagements.

We take one or two new clients a year. The math only works if we go deep — so we say no to most things and stay close to the few we say yes to.

You own the system, not the relationship.

No per-seat fees, no platform lock-in, no “ours forever” architecture decisions. The day you don't need us, the system keeps working.

Free download

Where AI Fits in Your Operation — a short, opinionated PDF you can print and hand to your team. Drop your email and we’ll send it. You’ll join the occasional notes list — unsubscribe in one click.

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Have a system eating your team’s time?

Or a product idea you can’t get into market? A 15-minute call will tell you whether we’re the right shop. Worst case, you walk away with two or three things worth trying yourself.

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