In progress
A voice notebook that listens first, then writes back.
(01) — Independent AI studio
1v is an independent studio making small, considered AI tools — and the occasional strange experiment.
Instrumentsfor thinking.
AI tools & experimentsScrollShanghai — online everywhere
(02)ManifestoWritten slowly
We believe intelligence should feel like a well-made instrument — precise, calm, and quietly surprising. Not a spectacle. Not a slot machine. A tool you pick up, that sharpens the way you think, and then gets out of the way. 1v is where we make those tools: slowly, by hand, one careful experiment at a time.
— 1vRevised often
(03)PracticeFour ways of working
What we make
Four disciplines, one temperament: small surfaces, sharp edges, nothing extra.
- 01
Agents
Small autonomous systems that read, plan and act on your behalf — with clear limits and reasoning you can see.
- 02
Interfaces for AI
Calm, legible surfaces for models. How a machine’s thinking should look, feel and answer back.
- 03
Automation
Quiet pipelines that dissolve the busywork between an idea and its result.
- 04
Experiments
Playful, sometimes strange probes into what models do when nobody asks them to be useful.
(04)LabOn the bench
Selected experiments
Prototype
Turns scattered notes into a living mosaic of ideas.
Prototype
Weaves small automations from plain, spoken sentences.
Experiment
A generative field that slowly dreams in type.
And a few more, still half-formed.