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
Wednesday, October 21
quietly checked that paying readers who never click are real people, not bots, so your habit-reading isn't being mistaken for inactivity.
quiz questions no longer hint at the right answer through repeated or shared wording, so learners must know the material.
changing your email or password in settings now actually works on laptop and android, not just iphone.
Someone can skip an unfinished step and move to the next one without being forced to falsely mark it done.
FrameDial News
two test accounts asked to stop receiving the daily email are now fully unsubscribed, so today's digest reached only genuine readers.
Frolic.Town
free-and-cheap Denver events are back and dated correctly, with tomorrow's listings loading after tonight's update.
10 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.