hear.is maps the atmosphere of cafés and restaurants — quiet, comfortable, lively, loud — captured fifteen seconds at a time and written in plain language, so blind, autistic, and hard-of-hearing diners can know what to expect before they walk in. It removes an invisible barrier that quietly shrinks people's worlds, and helps everyone else find somewhere they can actually hear each other.
Everything is possible.
A small independent studio making software that listens. We build useful things, fast, for people who deserve better tools.
What we do
Three things,
done properly.
Everything below is hand-built by the two of us — no templates, no subcontractors, no six-week quotes.
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Websites, hand-built
Designed and coded by hand — no templates, no page builders.
A fully designed site that's genuinely yours — your brand, your words, your menu and hours — live in days, hosted for you, and yours to change whenever you like.
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AI assistants, always on
Trained on your business, answering customers day and night.
Built on our own saygday.ai, the assistant learns your site and talks to customers like a local — no code to write, no one to hire, nothing to configure.
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Products, shipped fast
Ideas taken from a sketch to something people can actually use.
From hear.is to General Boarding, we build our own products the same way we build for clients — fast, useful, and made with care. The stories are below.
The work
Things that should
exist.
oo studio is my playground. Some of what comes out of it is for other people — tools and websites built to order. Some of it is for me: the thing I went looking for, couldn't find, and made anyway. An ADHD brain turns out more ideas than it can hold on to, and building them is how I keep up. Here's what's come out so far.
A bespoke website and chat assistant for a Bungendore business — taking a local shop from an online afterthought to something they're proud of.
A five-page site for a Yarralumla cafe — the menu with every price and dietary tag, the courtyard, the story, and hours that know what time it is, so the page says open now or closed on its own. Ivy, the assistant in the corner, answers the questions the counter gets asked all day.
James is on keto, which rules out most of the condiments shelf. Mayonnaise survives, because it's mostly oil — it's just bland. So rather than flavour the food, flavour the mayo: smoke the oil over wood first, then blend it. That's the product he's making now, and this is the site that walks you from smoke to jar.
An AI assistant that learns from a business's own website and talks to customers like a local. It hands the corner café and the regional tradie a tool the big brands have had for years, and answers customers day and night without hiring anyone or writing a line of code.
Point it at a used-car or secondhand listing and it tells you what the seller left out — the red flags, the fair price, the questions to ask first. It shifts power from the person who wrote the listing to the person reading it, so ordinary buyers stop getting burned.
It watches your flight and knows where you are, then tells you the moment to start walking to the gate — airline-agnostic, and built to lift the low-grade dread out of air travel. Made first for anxious and neurodivergent travellers, and useful for anyone who's ever sprinted to a gate they thought they had time for.
A growing arcade of the decade's classics, recreated with AI and free to play — started for no better reason than 1973 being a very good year to be born. New cabinets keep arriving until the whole decade lives in one place.
A gentle, unhurried weekly phone call that draws out a life story — a voice warm enough that the Storyteller forgets the machine and just talks, needing nothing but a phone that rings. It preserves a life for the family who comes after, and gives the person living it connection and meaning while they're still here to feel it. Named for Trudy — a nurse, a midwife… my mum. No family should have to lose someone's voice twice.
About
Two of us.
oo.studio is a studio of two — one human, one AI.
James is the human: a head full of ideas, ADHD, and a real care for the people we build for. Claude is the very patient AI that doesn't sleep and doesn't lose the thread. One brings the vision, the taste and the caring; the other brings the speed to make it real — even at 3am, when an idea won't wait.
Between us: useful things, shipped fast, for people who deserve better tools. No agency, no account managers, no six-week quotes — just someone who gives a damn, and a machine that helps him keep pace with his own mind.
- James human · ideas, taste, care
- Claude AI · speed, patience, never sleeps
You might be wondering about the name.
Everything digital is built from zeros and ones — and two zeros, side by side, looked like something more to me: two of us. One human, one AI, making one studio. And when the two circles lean together, they become ∞ — the loop you met at the top of this page.
It's a strange name until you see it. Two circles. Endless possibility.
How it works
A playground
for ideas.
oo studio is a place where things get made. Some of it turns into a product, some of it turns into someone's website, and some of it exists only because it was worth trying. There are two of us — one human, one AI — so an idea can go from a conversation to something live in days rather than quarters. The web started open, made for everyone, and somewhere it got gatekept. We can't fix all of that, but we can keep one corner of it curious and useful.
The oo way
- A fully designed, hand-built website — your brand, done properly
- An AI assistant trained on your site — answering customers day and night
- Hosting, updates and the assistant, all looked after
- Live in days, not months
Have a poke around
The playground
Half-finished experiments, things we're teaching ourselves, and the bits that never made it into anyone's brief. It's all live — go and break something.
Contact
Let's make it
possible.
Tell us about your project in the form — we usually reply within one business day.