The Why Engine · Now live

What happens when you keep asking why?

Ask why about anything, then why of the answer, until the ground your question has been standing on comes into view.

Aska question you actually carry.
Watchthe sky answer itself.
Readwhat survives the collapse.

A private observatory · built by Devello Studios

Brooklyn Tech Expo · Booth 13

Bring me a question.

Bespoke solutions, built with care.

Things I built

  • Sivra
  • Sygil
  • The Why Engine
  • Osmo
  • Devello Design Studio

The Devello Network. Four founding partners, chosen from this exhibition. Leave your problem at the table, or here.

The Suite

Three doors. One library.

Three distinct ways a person can meet intelligence. One to learn from it, one to act through it, one to process the world with it.

01 — To know.

Sygil

Four lenses on any question — Science, Math, Human Experience, Contemplation. A thinking tool that meets you at the shape of your curiosity.

Live on the App Store · $3.99/mo premium

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02 — To act.

Osmo

A voice-first AI assistant that connects to your real life. Calendar, email, reminders, messages, music, navigation, translation, and vision — all through natural conversation.

Live on the App Store · Currently in beta · Pro $19.99/mo

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03 — To process.

Sivra

Recursive research that builds a living knowledge base. Gather, extract, cluster, hypothesize, score, verify, synthesize — up to three passes deep.

Live on the App Store · sivra.app on web

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Tap the egg

A private showing

The East Door

“What if a digital space felt like a place of my own?”

A personal digital space with a door of its own. It doesn't open for everyone.

Native iOS Applications

Built for Apple

Three apps on the App Store, each built around a single verb. To know, to act, to process.

To know

4

Lenses · one deeper understanding

Sygil

Four perspectives. One question at a time.

  • Science · Math · Human · Contemplative lenses
  • Debate Mode, Reflect & Journal, Rank progression
  • 12 on-device languages · Kids Mode for ages 8–12
  • No account, no tracking, no ads

Free 5/day · Premium $5.99/mo · $44.99/yr

To act

17

Integrated skills · one voice to act

Osmo AI

A personal AI that doesn't just answer. It acts.

  • Calendar, Email, Maps, Vision, Memory, Music, Translate
  • Proactive briefings and departure alerts without being asked
  • Learns your schedule by Wednesday. Anticipates your week by Friday
  • Cosmic canvas responses — structured cards, interactive sheets

Free tier · Pro $19.99/mo

DownloadCurrently in betaosmo.website

To process

7

Step pipeline · up to 3 recursive passes

Sivra

Not a chatbot. A research process.

  • Gather → Extract → Cluster → Hypothesize → Score → Verify → Synthesize
  • Ingests URLs, documents, repos, raw text — indexed automatically
  • Insights scored by quality, relevance, and novelty
  • Executive summaries with citations and grounded Q&A

Free 5 credits · Starter $14/mo · Pro $34/mo

Journal

From the blog

Where I write down what I'm thinking, building, noticing, and questioning along the way.

Learning how to lead
April 26, 2026Featured

Learning how to lead

This started as curiosity. The same instinct that pulled me into building things eventually asked a harder question: what does it take to lead them? Courage, I have come to understand, is not the absence of fear. It is being scared and doing the thing anyway.

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April 10, 2026

The hidden cost of building

Nobody writes down the real P&L of a software studio. API bills that creep, Apple review cycles, the gravity of three codebases, verification interviews, infrastructure that layers silently. The sticker price of "it just works" is paid in places you do not expect.

March 20, 2026

The pace of AI, in perspective

We overestimate what AI can do in a month and wildly underestimate what it can do in a year. A look at the actual slope — training cost per capability, inference cost, benchmark jumps — and what that means if you are building on top of it.

June 14, 2025

What are tools?

How the unique ability of humans to craft and use tools has helped change the course of history, from primitive implements to digital technologies.

January 15, 2025

How to build in the digital

The introduction of digital intelligence has paved the way for learning and rapid implementation of ideas, transforming how we approach creative problem-solving and innovation in the modern world.

December 8, 2024

The art of creation

Exploring the relationship between creative freedom and the mental constraints such freedom introduces, revealing how boundaries can paradoxically enhance artistic expression.