Intriguing Insight · The Studio

A small studio. Careful tools. The kind of book that stays on your desk.

We make native apps, software for founders, and writing that earns its shelf. A small catalogue, a slow pace, a high bar. Have a look around.

What we make

The studio at a glance.

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Founder OS

New

Foundry

The working surface for solo founders.

Write ideas down, weigh opportunities, record decisions, run the week. A quiet working surface for solo founders with more than one plate in the air.

Live at foundry-os.io Take a look →

Native macOS

New

ScreenForge

App Store screenshots, made on your Mac.

Design a full App Store screenshot set in minutes. Native Mac, 52 themes, 38 device sizes, no cloud account needed.

Launching on the Mac App Store Take a look →

The Book

Think Sharper with AI

The book on thinking well with language models.

A full-length book about getting steady, useful answers out of a language model. No tricks. A way of working you can actually keep up.

Available now Take a look →

iOS Family

BabyBlocks

Small apps that play nicely together.

A small family of iOS apps for everyday life. Each one does a single job well. Lives over at babyblocks.io.

In progress Take a look →

Intriguing Insight

Think Sharper
with AI

A way of working that holds

Volume 01

The Book

Think Sharper with AI

A full-length book about actually getting work done with language models. No hype, no lists of prompts to memorise, no tricks that stop working next week. A way of thinking you can put to use today.

  • Write asks that fit the situation in front of you.
  • Shape structure, tone, and format without wrestling the tool.
  • Break bigger jobs into steps that hold together.

The list

Hear from us when something new lands.

A short email, every so often. New books, new apps, the occasional note on what we are working on. No firehose, no heavy sales pitch.

No spam, ever. Unsubscribe whenever you like.

The studio

A small catalogue, on purpose.

We would rather put out three things a year that hold up than thirty that do not. Every product on this site was built because we felt the gap ourselves, not because it looked like a market.

Intriguing Insight is a brand of Intrigue MMC LLC. Books, software, and a few native apps you will actually keep around.

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Things on the shelf

Books, a Mac app, a web app, a family of iOS apps.

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Studio, solo-run

Every product built end to end.

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Ads, trackers, noise

Privacy-friendly. Always has been.

Drafts per idea

Until it earns its keep.

Kind words are on the way.

As readers send notes in, this is where they will go. For now, the best thing to judge us on is the book itself.

Have a look around the studio.

Software, books, and a few calm apps. Each one came from a real gap and went through more drafts than we would care to admit.