base studio is the brand under which we ship ai-native consumer & creative tools — software you buy once and keep, with your data on your machine. The studio is the residency; the products are the residents.
Every consumer SaaS subscription is a rented relationship. Cancel and you lose the file, the history, the calibration. The product was never really yours.
base studio is the inverse default: buy once, BYOK your model, keep your data local, take your file with you. We pick three things to build well, in plain view, and refuse to scale the team past the ones who actually ship.
A consumer tool, an infrastructure layer, and a research-grade data set. Each gets its own page and its own ship cadence.
A pay-per-call API proxy for AI agents. Free tier on every endpoint; premium x402 for SLA. Listed in the x402 Bazaar.
open product page BETA · q2 2026Local-first desktop app that turns one long recording into ten short clips. BYOK Claude. No upload. macOS · Windows · Linux.
open product page LIVE · data + skill101 founder interviews → 7 failure modes → Claude skill + open data set + editorial series. Ranked by frequency, not vibes.
open product pageThree verbs we test every product against. If it fails on one, we don't ship.
Build for the people already doing creative work — podcasters, writers, builders. The product should drop into their existing tool chain, not replace it.
Consumer polish, not enterprise UI. One interface, ten seconds to value. The opposite of a Figma plugin sprawl.
The file is yours. The key is yours. No vendor lock, no cancellation toll. Buy once and the product stays useful in three years.
| Founded | 2026 · Oakland, California |
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| Brand surface | satoshi.build URL · "base studio" wordmark |
| Focus | AI-native consumer + creative tools. No enterprise B2B SaaS. |
| Operating model | Residency · 2–4 builders at a time · each owns a single shipped product |
| Distribution model | Buy-once where it makes sense (Clipper) · pay-per-call where volume justifies it (Marketplace) · open + free where it's research (Playbook) |
| Stack defaults | Tauri 2 for desktop · Next.js 14 + Vercel for web · x402 for micropayments · Anthropic Claude for inference (BYOK on consumer apps) |
| Not building | Anything that requires renting your file, your model, or your attention back to you on a monthly subscription. |
| How to reach us | hi@satoshi.build · GitHub yayashuxue · or join the email list below |
Vendor swap to Travelpayouts shipped behind an A/B gate. Free tier on every endpoint, source disclosed in every response.
101-interview corpus coded, top-7 failure-mode taxonomy published. Skill installable in Claude Desktop & Claude Code.
Studio holding page, product pages, residency framing. Three products in flight, public from day one.
Tauri 2 desktop binary for macOS / Windows / Linux. Whisper.cpp local transcription, BYOK Claude clip selection. First 100 founder edition at $9 lifetime.
One npx agent-marketplace setup command wires wallet + catalog into Cursor / Claude Code / Cline runtimes.
One postcard from the studio, every other week.
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