Bridging the gap between a bold idea and a shipped AI product.
We're a small, senior studio that designs and ships AI products people can actually use, under the constraints of safety, regulation, and real-world accuracy.
Most teams have to choose. You shouldn't have to.
When you're building something genuinely hard, you usually get one of two things.
Both leave a gap, and in complex, regulated products, that gap is where time, budget, and trust quietly disappear. We close it: senior product judgment that also designs and ships the working software.
Three ways in. One of them ships your product.
We work across three engagements: from a low-commitment first look to designing and shipping the whole product. Most partnerships start small and grow.
AI-UX & Product Audit
A senior teardown of an existing complex product: usability, product strategy, and AI-readiness. We find where AI would help, whether the AI you already have is trustworthy and compliant, and where your privacy and governance gaps are (GDPR, the EU AI Act). The non-commodity UX audit, and a natural on-ramp to deeper work.
Product Design → Build
Our core. We design and ship complex and AI products end to end, from UX and design system through to a deployed production system, using disciplined, spec-driven AI-agent development. For startups shaping a serious MVP and enterprises taking a prototype to production alike.
AI Workflows for Teams
Help your organisation adopt agentic AI internally: automation, orchestration, and privacy-first local or self-hosted LLMs, so your team gets the upside without sending data where it shouldn't go.
No packages, no price lists. Every engagement is scoped to the problem. Start with a free intro chat; we follow with a custom quote.
AI designed in, not bolted on.
Most products now have an AI feature. Far fewer have one people trustenough to use. We've spent 15+ years designing AI and machine-learning interfaces (trading analytics, clinical decision support, in-car voice) where the output has to be interpretable, the human stays in the loop, and "roughly right" isn't good enough.
PrepMyCV tailors your CV to the job, with AI you can trust.
It turns your CV and a target job posting into a tailored, interview-ready application: privacy-first, EU-hosted, your data encrypted with your own key.
We designed and shipped it by directing AI coding agents, the clearest proof of both halves of what we do: AI designed into a product, and AI agents directed to build it.
See it live. We walk you through PrepMyCV on our intro call, the fastest way to see how we design and build.
Fifteen years in the hard domains.
Before Studio Black, our senior work shaped products in some of the most demanding domains there are, under real safety, regulatory, and scale constraints.
In-car HMI under strict safety and glanceability constraints; connected services and EV navigation; a new pay-per-view revenue stream.
A modular system turning complex clinical pathways into configurable apps, with AI-assisted analytics.
Making machine-learning output interpretable and actionable for portfolio managers and traders.
A fashion-forward connected device. Hardware + app, concept to manufacture.
In-car·Clinical·Trading floor·IoT hardware·Web
We don't specialise in a platform. We specialise in difficulty.
Senior product thinking, carried all the way to shipped.
We design and ship as one process: product and UX flow straight into a disciplined, AI-accelerated build, with no hand-off and no gap to fall through.
Research, framing, and UX under real safety and regulatory constraints.
Written specs and plans before code; a 60+ anti-pattern operating manual and a Definition-of-Done gate before anything merges.
GDPR, EU AI Act, bring-your-own-key encryption.
A small studio, built for hard problems.
Studio Black is a small, senior, principal-led product studio. You work directly with the people doing the work: 15+ years of product and UX leadership across automotive, healthcare, and fintech, now paired with AI-native building. We're deliberately small: we take on a few hard problems at a time and go deep.