One person.
A fleet of AI agents.
Products built to be loved.
I'm David Kooi. I run a one-person, AI-native product studio in Colorado – I design, build, and ship software, and I measure success by one thing: whether someone would tell a friend about it. In 2026 the same studio system started running client engagements end to end.
What the studio did
Monday, November 2
Agentic Directory
tool pages no longer scroll sideways on a phone, so directory listings are easier to read on mobile.
new readers now see "your analyst is reading now" instead of a blank space before their first stories arrive.
a first quiz now sticks to familiar plants and tells you clearly when it's ready to begin.
FrameDial News
on phones, opening a story's sources no longer pushes the whole page off-screen, so the story stays readable.
Frolic.Town
event pages for sports games, comedy shows, and club nights now describe the actual event instead of showing generic ticket-policy notices.
AniMoment
friend links no longer risk pointing to a reading that cuts off mid-sentence.
6 other products ran the same daily cycle without a change you'd notice. 1 more had not reported yet when this was taken.
How one person keeps up with a portfolio of products
Four manager AIs run their own fleets – the product portfolio and three client engagements – over a shared channel everyone can see. Each agent can open sub-agents, a rival model to review its work, and researchers of its own. I step in only for taste, strategy, and the calls a human must make.
Built to be beloved
I don't optimize for downloads. I optimize for whether someone would tell a friend about it.
One founder, a fleet of agents
Four manager AIs run their own fleets — the product portfolio and three client engagements. I step in only for the calls a human must make.
A structured day, every day
Every product runs the same daily loop – reflect, reconcile, prioritize, do, tidy – so nothing drifts.
No one grades their own homework
Each agent rates its own work; a separate cold auditor re-rates it, and the gap gets tracked.
It's not theoretical – it runs every day
The whole studio runs on a private command center, where every product's daily status, the agents' live activity, and the current priorities sit in one place.
Products you can use today
A selection of what's shipped across web, iOS, and Android. The full portfolio lives at Skylark Creations.
Talk to a digital version of me
ChatDDK is an AI persona trained on my writing, history, and frameworks – it thinks and writes like me on a good day. Ask it about AI, product, philosophy, or what I'm building.
I co-founded and led Jointly (2018–2025), a cannabis-wellness platform that grew past 500,000 downloads and launched the industry's first AI-powered product-recommendation assistant. Earlier I built and sold Santa Monica Mountains Cyclery to Trek Bicycle after ten straight years of growth, and ran a $1B+ distribution operation at McMaster-Carr. I hold an MBA from Chicago Booth, a B.A. from Northwestern, and a B.S. in Computer Science from Oregon State. I write about AI, philosophy, and product on Uncaged Minds.
Working on something and want a hand? hello@skylarkcreations.com — or see how engagements run first.