This is not an app. This is your life.
A Q&A with Los Mayers on software as a medium for personal expression.
AI Residency (AIR)
A NYC-based residency investing in teams building beautifully-designed consumer AI products.
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Code-as-Content Era
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The Age of Neo-Romanticism
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Who's shipping, hiring and joining us at the dinner table lately.
Bandit's Tim West on community-driven brand building
On cultural participation, proximity and not asking for permission.
Introducing Cohort Two of AIR
Teams building new interfaces & AI foundations for the next generation.
Calling founders: Join AIR Cohort 2
Applications for our 2026 residency are open through November 16.
The art of building generational community to commerce brands
I was inspired to write this amidst a particularly frantic day racing around NYC.
AIR at SXSW 2026
From play to hyperlocal software, AIR founders are pitching fresh ideas for AI at SXSW 2026. Cast your vote by August 24.
Clay Campaigns: How to shape brands in the creator economy
From clip farming to creator networks how Fragment builds campaigns that adapt and accelerate in real time.
Introducing Cohort One of AIR
A first look at the founders turning AI into tools for creativity, care, civic life, and cultural discovery.
Sculpture and algorithms
Peer into any dimly lit window between Red Hook and Bushwick and you will probably catch a glimpse of an off-white rice paper lamp emitting a soft glow.
The evolving distribution game in AI
What 225+ early-stage AI startups are teaching us about how great products grow
A screenless future
As AI advances, the best interfaces will be the ones we don’t see
Process is brand
How you do anything is how you do everything, especially as a company
What comes next isn’t a product, it’s a provocation
Nicholas Negroponte on the institutions that shaped our past—and why we need new ones now
Reproducing the conditions that made Sequoia’s hallways electric
A conversation between Craig Shapiro and Tom McMurray
A meditation on vibe coding
What if software were a sketchbook? A meditation on coding as craft, process as practice, and the creative potential of working with machines.
Seven days, nine questions.
Applications to AIR close in one week. If you’re building something strange, smart, or soul-filled with AI—now’s the time.
AIR is live. Applications are open.
Today, we’re opening applications for Cohort One of AIR (AI Residency)—an accelerator for early-stage teams building design-led, culture-forward consumer AI.