The work

28 problems, described so you can spot your own.

No client names, no screenshots of real data. Each card says what the problem was, what the tool does, and where else the same shape turns up.

ProductivityWorking

Dictation in English and Tamil, offline

Typing is about three times slower than speaking, and paid dictation apps send your voice to the cloud and stumble on Tamil.

What it does: Hold a key, speak, and clean text lands at the cursor. English and Tamil today; more languages can be added. Everything runs on the laptop.
Fits anywhere that: people think faster than they type, or work in a regional language.

Shape · Speak

ContentIn production

Pitch videos presented by an AI twin

Filming every pitch takes a studio, a free afternoon and many retakes.

What it does: Script, AI presenter, cloned voice and edit, with the reveal at the end. Only the idea is human.
Fits anywhere that: a business needs a steady stream of short explainer videos.

Shape · Make

FinanceUsed on real data

Bank statement → books → GST sales

Hundreds of small credits a month had to be tied to customers and ledgers by hand.

What it does: Classifies every credit to a ledger using rules the team can read and change, then produces the accounting entries and the GST sales extract.
Fits anywhere that: money arrives in many small payments with messy narrations.

Shape · Match

PlayPlayable

A party game where phones are the controllers

Group games need consoles and enough controllers for everyone.

What it does: The laptop is the big screen. Everyone scans a code and plays from their own phone.
Fits anywhere that: a room full of people needs one shared, interactive moment: offsites, events, training.

Shape · Make

ProductivityLive

A translator for real conversations

Talking across languages without an interpreter.

What it does: Translates each message in full, never summarised, using the best engine for each language pair. New languages are added as they’re needed.
Fits anywhere that: customers or staff speak a different language from you.

Shape · Speak

ContentIn use

An editor’s check on every render

AI video fails in small ways people notice: lip sync, frozen faces, no blinks, loudness.

What it does: Measures each render and passes or fails it before a person watches. Nothing ships on a fail.
Fits anywhere that: media is produced at volume and quality must not slip.

Shape · Catch

FinanceWorking

GST return workbooks, straight from portal data

Downloads from the tax portal were retyped into the firm’s Excel templates every month.

What it does: Pick the return, drop in the portal files, get the filled template, the same way every time.
Fits anywhere that: a government or bank portal gives data your team rekeys into a standard format.

Shape · Read + Draft

ProductivityLive

Saved videos you can actually search

Hundreds of saved reels: places, ideas, how-tos, impossible to find again.

What it does: Watches, listens to and reads each one, sorts it, and lets you search by what was said or shown.
Fits anywhere that: useful knowledge sits inside videos and screenshots.

Shape · Read

PlayWorking

An AI panel that reacts before real people do

Names, prices and ideas get tested on real customers too late.

What it does: Shows an idea to a panel of AI personas, collects each answer and reason, and scores how well the twins match real people.
Fits anywhere that: a decision needs a quick read before money is spent. A first filter, never the final word.

Shape · Catch

ProductivityLive

A travel wallet that fills itself

Tickets and boarding passes are buried in email and photos at the worst moment.

What it does: Reads booking emails and pass photos, including the barcode, into one wallet, and clears old tickets after the trip.
Fits anywhere that: staff travel and someone chases documents.

Shape · Read

ContentPilot

An AI-made thriller series

Making a weekly drama normally needs a cast, a crew and locations.

What it does: Locked characters, generated scenes and an edit pipeline that measures realism against real film of the era.
Fits anywhere that: stories sell the product: brand films, training scenarios.

Shape · Make

FinanceDeployed

Payroll checked three ways

Auditors compared the client’s payroll entries, the HR paysheet and the salary ledger line by line.

What it does: Reconciles all three across salary, incentive, bonus and gratuity, and lists the differences for review.
Fits anywhere that: three systems describe the same money and must agree.

Shape · Match

ProductivityRuns every morning

A morning brief where every claim is checked

AI news is loud, repetitive and often wrong.

What it does: Collects the day’s items and fact-checks each one against its source before it reaches you, without dropping any.
Fits anywhere that: a team needs a daily digest it can trust.

Shape · Read + Catch

PlayWorking

Try clothes on before buying, privately

Product photos don’t show how something looks on you.

What it does: Puts a product onto your own photo and keeps your real face untouched. Photos stay on the laptop.
Fits anywhere that: shoppers hesitate because they can’t picture it on themselves.

Shape · Make

ProductivityIn use

A PDF toolkit where files never leave the laptop

Online PDF sites ask you to upload confidential client documents.

What it does: Merge, split, convert, black out private details and edit the text in pictures, on the laptop.
Fits anywhere that: documents are confidential and the work is routine.

Shape · Read

ContentPrototype

A teleprompter that follows your voice

Fixed-speed prompters make you chase the text, and most don’t understand Tamil.

What it does: Listens as you read, in English or Tamil, and scrolls with you, pausing when you pause.
Fits anywhere that: people record talks, training or announcements.

Shape · Speak

FinanceIn progress

Trial balance to financial statements

Year-end statements are rebuilt from an ERP trial balance with heavy manual mapping.

What it does: Being built to map accounts to the statutory format and draft the statements, with every number traceable, checked against last year’s signed set.
Fits anywhere that: raw ledgers become a report with a fixed legal format.

Shape · Draft

ProductivityTesting

Reminders that land in the right calendar

Meeting and event reminders arrived as messages and were forgotten.

What it does: Turns a quick note into an event in the right one of several calendars, with alerts.
Fits anywhere that: dates arrive in chats and emails and must not be missed.

Shape · Catch

PlayPlayable

Puzzles that double as a thinking test

Aptitude tests are dull, and games measure nothing.

What it does: Hand over the phone for a few minutes of puzzles that also score reasoning, offline.
Fits anywhere that: hiring or training wants a lighter way to gauge ability.

Shape · Make

ProductivityLive

A phone assistant that actually does things

Small admin jobs piled up because each one needed a laptop.

What it does: Takes a spoken or typed request on the phone and carries it out: email, messages, lookups.
Fits anywhere that: people on the move need a desk job done.

Shape · Speak + Catch

ContentThis site

Cinematic websites from a video

Award-style scrolling sites usually need a studio and weeks.

What it does: Turns footage into scenes that play as you scroll, with melting transitions. This page is built on the same engine.
Fits anywhere that: a launch or a portfolio needs to feel like an event.

Shape · Make

FinanceDeployed

Statutory reconciliation

Statutory dues were recalculated by hand to check that what was paid was right.

What it does: Recomputes each employee’s statutory dues from the rules and flags shortfalls and excesses.
Fits anywhere that: a rule decides an amount and someone has to prove it was applied.

Shape · Match

ProductivityLive

Any how-to link becomes a clean card

Recipes and instructions are scattered across videos, posts and photos.

What it does: Share a link or a picture and get a tidy, searchable card with the steps and quantities.
Fits anywhere that: procedures live in people’s phones instead of a manual.

Shape · Read

PlayPlayable

A co-op game for two on one computer

Most games pit people against each other.

What it does: One player builds, the other fights, and neither wins alone.
Fits anywhere that: teamwork needs practising, not lecturing.

Shape · Make

ProductivityWorking

A screen recorder built for walkthroughs

Explaining a process over a call is slow, and paid recorders add watermarks and limits.

What it does: One keystroke records the screen with your face in a corner, ready to share.
Fits anywhere that: processes are taught by showing.

Shape · Make

ContentTesting

Eye contact, fixed with real pixels

Reading a script makes your eyes drift off the lens.

What it does: Measures where you looked and nudges only the eyes back to camera, without redrawing the face.
Fits anywhere that: people present to camera from notes.

Shape · Make

FinanceBuilt

Audit working papers, accelerated

Audit documentation means the same structured papers, written from scratch for every client.

What it does: Speeds up the standard working papers, so the auditor reviews them instead of writing each from scratch.
Fits anywhere that: professionals produce the same structured document for many clients.

Shape · Draft

PlayWorking

A habit tracker that scores the present

Streak apps reward the past and punish one bad week.

What it does: Effort earns points, neglect slowly decays them, so the score shows how you’re doing now. It works offline.
Fits anywhere that: a team wants nudges toward steady habits instead of streaks.

Shape · Catch

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