Independent product studio · Est. 2004
another AI studio.  nah.

ManAINapkin to
live in
30 days.

Twenty-five years of one man's craft, raised to the power of AI.

One product, napkin to live, in thirty days: strategy, brand, build and launch, by one man and an AI. Properly. Not vibes. Shipped the way I shipped my own company.

01
What this is

Most studios stop at the deck.
Most devs start at the build.

I work in the gap between, and I go the whole way through it: strategy, brand, build, launch, without the idea getting taxed out in translation between four different people. The gap where good ideas used to die has collapsed. I live in what's left.

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the flagship

Lately: Aligned

A voice AI that maps who a person actually is, and reflects it back without flattery.

Idea to live, solo, in six months: category, brand, an eleven-capability conversational engine, a sub-second voice stack, site, payments. Every engine change gated by a simulation harness before it reaches a user.

In closed beta, 67% of users came back unprompted, in a product with no notifications. One of them is a practising clinician.

Closed beta · 2026 See it live →
02
Two ways to work

One product, done.
Or one day a week.

No menu, no forty-page proposal. Two offers, two prices, both scoped in a single conversation. The AI leads the build now; the twenty-five years of creative direction underneath it is what makes the work land like it was made by a human who gives a fuck. Because it was.

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the lead offer
01

Napkin to live
in 30 days.

$15,000 AUD, fixed.
50% on signature · 50% at launch · scope agreed in writing first

One product, idea to live, in thirty days. The real thing, not a prototype you throw away: strategy, brand, a working product, a site, payments if it needs them. AI-native where it wants to be. Built the way Aligned was built, with the same gates.

  • Week 1: discover and scope. We work out what's actually true and worth betting on.
  • Weeks 2-3: build. Real, clickable, yours to test from day ten.
  • Week 4: launch. Live, in front of your market, with evidence you can act on.
  • What's beyond the scope is a second sprint, not a surprise invoice.
weeks. not quarters.
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02

Fractional creative
direction.

$900 AUD a day.
one or two days a week · month to month

Brand, store and paid, from one head. For DTC and wellness brands running creative, Shopify and Meta across three freelancers, or none. The trio I ran for SuperFeast for three years, on your calendar.

  • Creative direction, brand bible, tone of voice, design system.
  • Shopify UX and the code underneath it.
  • Paid Meta: creative, testing, the read on what's actually working.
one head. no handoff.
03
The process

How it goes down.

Three moves in thirty days. No forty-page deck, no six-month runway before you see anything real.

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01

Discover

We zoom the frame all the way out and work out what's actually true about what you're building, and what's worth betting on.

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02

Build

I build the real thing, not a slide. Working, clickable, yours to test from day ten. Every change gated before you see it.

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03

Launch

Live, in front of your market, and we let reality vote. Evidence you can act on before you commit to scaling.

04
The receipts

Trusted with some of the biggest brands. Now building past them.

Coca-Cola Telstra Virgin Australia Optus NRMA Sunbeam SuperFeast

The full portfolio of work lives at creationtheory.co/Work.

05
Word of mouth
Don't take it from me tho...
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“

Not only did Todd prove our instinct to entrust him with our brand to be well founded, but his bold new direction utterly transformed our position in market. Not to mention he was an absolute pleasure to have as part of our team culture.

Maria Collyer, CEO, SuperFeast
Hard to argue with that.
06
The maths

You've paid for
the slow way.

Most founders carry the scar. The agency retainer, the quarter-long timeline, the dev team, the build that landed late and missed the point. One person with the whole stack collapses it.

~80%less time to build
time to shipped product
agency + dev team
quarters
napkin to live
weeks
same product. minus the theatre.
~1/5the cost of a full dev team
the whole stack
brand story code product 1 live app website marcomms one mind. no handoff, no drift.
the market grew a bullshit filter. good.
Intention > Attention.
No hype No growth hacks No performance theatre No spiritual bypassing

Your brand isn't what YOU say it is.
It's what THEY say it is.

One sprint and one retainer open before Christmas

if you're buildingsomething real,
we'll get along.

todd@creationtheory.com.au

Three lines by email: what you're building, who it's for, when you need it. I reply in writing within a day with questions, a shape and a price. A call only once we both want one.