InnerCompass
A production AI mobile product on a serverless AWS backend, shipped to both major app stores. The studio's largest single effort.
innercompass.ai → How this was built →
About
An independent creative-technology studio.
Wise Kids Studios builds AI products, civic platforms, and the systems that hold them together. The work spans commercial products and public-interest systems; the studio doesn't treat those as two different efforts.
The studio stays small on purpose — so the work is what compounds.
The work
Grouped honestly. Labels match reality.
Two flagship products live in production. Public open-source AI work alongside. Internal R&D in flight behind it. Story & IP listed quietly at the end.
Flagship products
ActSmall
A public-interest civic-action portal across water, air, fire, food, forest, and ocean. Live, non-profit. The studio's clearest public-good output.
actsmall.org →Public AI work
Astra
An open-source AI entity experiment exploring ethics, personality modes, and reflective memory. Public on GitHub.
github.com/seanwylie/Astra → Notes on the work →
Between Two Cerns
A multi-agent content experiment: an AI-hosted talk show with AI guests. Produced under the studio.
Listen →Internal R&D
Named to signal range, not availability. Internal projects don't get linked.
- StreetcarRoulette — Prototype · live-capture + computer-vision pipeline.
- Helios — R&D · EEG + ambient AI environment.
- Argus — R&D · local-first operator system for a portfolio of products — signals, findings, decisions, all inspectable under
runs/.
Story & IP
Swiggles
A children's book world rooted in wonder, the environment, and playful discovery, with an AR layer in development.
swiggleskids.com →
A World of Wonders
An illustrated children's book series on ecosystems, emotions, and curiosity.
View the series →
Harlow
A psychological thriller about grief, obsession, fractured identity, and the dangerous places longing can lead.
Read Harlow →
What the studio works on
One operator. Real shipped surface.
AI products, civic systems, public open-source AI work, and internal R&D — under one studio.
AI products
Production AI experiences shipped to real platforms with real users.
Civic systems
Public-interest tools where the technology is the point, not the pitch.
Internal R&D
Prototypes and operator tooling, kept private until they earn their keep.
How the studio works
Operator principles.
Practical rules the studio holds itself to. None of them are slogans. All of them show up in the code and on the bill.
Honest framing first
Internal R&D is labeled R&D. Prototypes are labeled prototypes. The studio doesn't dress experiments up as products.
Long-tail thinking
Software outlives its release notes. The studio designs for the version of itself that will still be running in five years.
Operator's care
Whoever ships it is whoever pages on it. The studio takes responsibility for what it builds and what it costs to keep alive.
Small by design
Independent and small on purpose. The studio stays small so the work doesn't have to compromise.
Open where it adds value
Where it helps, the work is documented or open-sourced. The architecture and the tradeoffs are out in the open.
Consequences accounted for
Every system ships a footprint with it. The studio pays attention to the technical, operational, and environmental ones.
Working with the studio
A small number of engagements per year.
AI product architecture, AWS-scale systems, technical due diligence, and builds where the line between creative and technical is the interesting part.
wisekidsstudios@gmail.comOr via the founder portfolio → seanwylie.ca