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

vibe coder labI build the
thing you wish
existed.

* then everyone wants it.

Strategy, story and code. One human and an AI. Twenty-five years of brand craft, pointed hard at the frontier of applied AI. I take ideas from philosophy to shipped product. Solo.

01
What this is

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

I work in the gap between. And now I go the whole way through it. Philosophy, strategy, shipped product, without the soul getting taxed out in translation. The gap where good ideas used to die? It collapsed. I live in what's left.

~/flagship/aligned.app
the flagship

Lately: Aligned

An AI-native product that maps who a person actually is.
A conversational engine built to reflect you back with precision.

Taken from idea to closed beta entirely solo: category, brand, conversational-AI design, product architecture, the raise.
The whole stack, one person.

Early users return unprompted, and benchmark it above solutions they've paid far more for.

Closed beta · 2026 See it live →
02
What I build

One brain. Whole stack.

The AI leads now. The 25 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.

01

AI products & prototypes

Vibe-coded, shipped, real. Conversational systems, agents, and AI-native products taken from concept to working thing. Fast, with taste.

idea → live in weeks
02

Brand & narrative

Positioning, messaging architecture and story that cuts through the bullshit filter. I built one of the sharpest going.

signal, not noise
03

Creative direction & design systems

Coke. Telstra. Virgin. SuperFeast. Two decades shipping brand, campaign, 3D, UX and design systems at the top end.

the foundation
04

Strategic alignment

The diagnostic conversation. We zoom the frame all the way out, surface what's structurally true, and align brand, product and comms around it.

one conversation reframes it
03
The process

How it goes down.

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

~/process/01_discover
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.

~/process/02_prototype
02

Prototype

I build the real thing, not a slide. A working, vibe-coded prototype you can click, in front of users in weeks.

~/process/03_validate
03

Validate

We put it in front of the market and 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
05
Word of mouth
Don't take it from me tho...
~/received/founder.log

He turned a napkin sketch into a working AI product before our next call. I didn't know the gap could close that fast.

Founder, seed-stage SaaS
~/received/ceo_dtc.log

One conversation and the positioning we'd chased for six months just clicked. We stopped guessing and started building.

CEO, DTC brand
~/received/head_of_brand.log

It actually sounds like us. Nothing about it smells like it came out of a machine.

Head of Brand
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. A vibe coder collapses it.

~80%less time to build
time to shipped product
agency + dev team
quarters
vibe coder lab
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.

Selectively taking on the right work

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

todd@creationtheory.com.au

Creative direction · brand · AI product · advisory. Freelance, contract or fractional.