modeless product studio
Automate the mundane. Keep the human touch.
modeless builds small, useful software for privacy, productivity, finance, design infrastructure, and human-machine workflows.
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Ohm Sweet Ohm
A local-only electricity dashboard for Swedish households that shows what the home uses now, what that costs, and how it compares.
electricity · Sweden · local-first · P1IB
Read about itSelected work
Portfolio
Thesis
What becomes possible when AI is treated as an interface material, not a feature?
Privacy and personal agency
Tools that reduce exposure and help people act with more control.
Agentic-human interaction
Patterns for delegation, review, correction, approval, and shared control.
Blockchain interfaces
Surfaces for wallets, provenance, permissions, and machine-readable trust.
Generative UX
Interfaces that assemble, adapt, and explain themselves around intent.
Investing
Angel, early-stage AIAllen Smith, who runs modeless, also invests as an angel in early-stage AI startups. He founded Semanttic and took its technology through an acquisition in April 2025, and brings that founder's view to the companies he backs.
Writing
Notes from the product layer2026-08-15
When Making Becomes Cheap
How a Dutch sawmill helped change the global economy, and what it can teach us about AI and design.
2026-06-06
The Weak Links in Design
A note on AI, design work, and why faster artifact production does not automatically fix the weak links that determine design impact.
2026-05-19
Reasoning Is The New Bandwidth
A note on AI reasoning cost curves, industrial estimation, and what becomes viable when intelligence stops being scarce.