This is where we make room to follow an idea before we know where it will lead. We explore new tools and build things we wish existed.
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Raft Design is our AI-native brand and product studio, built bilingual in English and Japanese from day one. The site runs on Vercel with a full EN/JP architecture and GEO infrastructure, plus Ishmael, an AI chatbot built on the Claude API that opens with "Call me Ishmael" and routes visitors toward the right service based on what they're actually trying to solve. It's proof of craft, not just lead gen. We also built a diagnostic tool in Lovable: paste a URL and it reads the site, names the contradiction the brand is holding, and shows where brand, product, AI, and global work would move it.
raftdesign.studio →
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Reading alone is easy to abandon. Reading alongside other people — even strangers, even silently — makes you actually finish. Storyroom is an exploration of what a modern book club could feel like if it lived in your phone. Same book, same chapter, same day. A Salon where readers share passages clipped directly from the audio and an AI called StoryBot surfaces the context no one else could. The concept started with a real question: why does discovery through other readers feel so much more alive than any algorithm? Concept designed and vibe coded, an idea that doesn't exist anywhere else yet.
View the Concept →
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Prompt Annotations is a Figma plugin that captures your vibe coding chat transcript and places a structured annotation frame next to your design in the file. It keeps the prompts, AI summary, and full back and forth with your design so your whole team has the context behind the work.
Plugin Page →
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Ship Yourself Cards is a helpful card deck app researched, designed, and coded using AI tools to help designers of all levels build momentum, tell their story, and navigate career transitions with confidence.
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Dreaming in Design is an AI-powered portfolio reviewer trained on real hiring criteria. The tool we're building will use AI because it's the only way to deliver personalized feedback at scale — specific to your role, level, and target companies.
Currently in research phase
dreamingindesign.com →
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An interactive art experience built entirely through vibe coding — no design tools, no code written by hand. We wanted to understand what becomes possible when a designer works purely in language, and to feel what it's like to describe something into existence rather than draw it. A golden door opens onto an open sky. A Tolkien-inspired story scrolls with read-along narrator, the sky brightening from pre-dawn to full daylight as it plays. The entire experience lives in a single HTML file, 84 kilobytes, two minutes long. Built in a day.
wearetheones.art →Ready to move at Raft speed?
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