About Us
Otterspace is a studio where craft is the point and AI is the leverage. We take on projects big and small, driven by curiosity, purpose, and the belief that great ideas deserve to exist: some as businesses, some simply as things the world should have.
How we work
Taste first.
What's good, and why. This is a human call, it's where most of the time goes, and we don't delegate it.
01Automate the boring, defend the joy.
AI handles the necessary tedium through systems that check their own work. It doesn't touch the work we love.
02Friction on purpose.
Good work comes from people rubbing against each other. Tools that only ever agree with you produce worse work.
03Stay close enough to understand.
We don't ship what we can't read. Understanding how a thing works is the first sacrifice people make for speed. Not here.
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Founders
Otterspace is run by Ivan and Michelle. Ivan comes from design, agency work, and product leadership at a startup that grew into a unicorn. Michelle is a software engineer turned concept artist. Neither is only the technical one, and neither is only the creative one.