Projects and experiments.

Practical products and AI work shaped by design judgement.

Some started with a problem Neil had himself. Others came from curiosity, a personal interest or the wish to learn an unfamiliar discipline. Together they show 25 years of design experience extended into software, AI and systems.

01 / 05 Products / systems / experiments

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Products

Products built around a specific human or working problem, from quiet native interactions to creative instructions, manual social posts and local visual models.

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01Personal tool · macOS

CueWright

Turning creative intent into model-ready prompts

Working macOS app, used in Neil’s own creative-direction work. Not publicly released.

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02Personal project · iPhone, iPad and Mac

PSsst

A planner for social posts that still need a person

I needed a better way to organise and keep track of my Facebook Group posts. Existing scheduling tools couldn’t solve the problem, so I built PSsst to handle the planning, reminders and posting history myself.

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03Personal tool · macOS

GenStudio

Building local visual AI workflows on an M1 Max

Free, source-first technical preview for Apple Silicon Macs. The app source, tests and documentation are published under the MIT License; model weights, the local-inference runtime and a signed app download are not included.

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04Published app

Little Window

Designing one gentle question all the way to a native product

Available free on the App Store for iPhone and iPad, with optional in-app tips.

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05Own product · pre-release

Arcanova Tarot

Turning a card reading into a deliberate digital ritual

Working pre-release app for iPhone and iPad.

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06Own product · pre-release

OrbiSage

Keeping the calculation engine separate from the generated story

Working pre-release iOS app.

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Brand & content systems

Studies in extracting brand evidence, directing connected assets and controlling the path from brief to review.

Labelled workflow summary of the self-directed Monzo study: shared evidence feeds an email generator, evaluator and final binding gate
07Independent brand study

Monzo brand voice system

From brand evidence to seven campaign formats

Independent study built around a fictional campaign. Not commissioned by or affiliated with Monzo.

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Complete Poppi Wildbloom campaign key art with the can and full headline preserved
08Independent creative study

Poppi Wildbloom

Directing one campaign across stills and motion

Independent study built around a fictional flavour and festival. Not commissioned by or affiliated with Poppi.

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Experiments

Focused tests of how roles, context and evaluation change AI-assisted work, including results that did not support the original idea.

05 / 05Next step

Have a repeated task, unfinished product idea or content process that loses its rules along the way?

Explain the current handover and the point where it breaks.