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Builder of things+ · The studio behind the stack

One studio.
A director's instinct.
An engineer's discipline.
Building AI that feels.

Founded2025 · Los Angeles
FounderSam A Bombay
In build12 products
SpineVesper
StatusOpen for partners
I — Studio

The studio behind the stack.

Who we are

Builder of things+ is a one-room studio with a director's eye and an engineer's discipline. We make consumer products that look like they were designed by an art house and run like they were built by a defense contractor.

Strategy, brand, copy, design, film, code, AI. No agencies stacked on agencies. No telephone game between brief and launch. The taste and the technology come from the same room.

The best ideas die in execution. The best executions die without taste. Builder of things+ exists so neither has to happen again.

II — Founder

Sam A Bombay.

Studio & statecraft

Sam has spent his career between film studios, sports brands, and government — building things people actually use.

Builder of things+ is what came next.

  • PastCCO & Vice Chairman · Y&R
  • FounderStudio Central · Dubai
  • Brand ArchitectHRX by Hrithik Roshan
  • AdvisorDubai Executive Office · HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
  • NowBuilder of things+ · founder
III — Past work

25 years at the apex of brand & influence.

Burj Khalifa
PW · 01
Real estate · Dubai

Brand capitalization & category leadership.

$1B+Real estate sold at launch

Burj Khalifa — market-defining positioning, narrative control, and luxury structuring. Establishing defensible leadership, driving high-velocity revenue, executing global campaigns, and leveraging cultural authority.

HRX by Hrithik Roshan
PW · 02
Sportswear · India

Brand architecture & category creation.

$550MBrand valuation created

HRX by Hrithik Roshan — leveraging celebrity equity, monetizing IP, accelerating valuation, and building the brand as a strategic asset.

HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
PW · 03
Sovereign advisory · UAE

Statecraft at the scale of nations.

5 yearsAs advisor · sovereign scale

Advisory across strategic initiatives within the Executive Office of H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Ruler of Dubai. At sovereign scale, ideas translate into policy frameworks, capital allocation, and integrated systems that redefine the trajectory of cities.

IV — Portfolio

Twelve products in build, one infrastructure beneath them all.

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Vesper is the spine. AUDISH finds the talent, DOUBLE clones the talent, RUSH directs the talent. DARLING is consumer AI with a co-founder the world already follows. YARDLY and OUD&FORM are taste-led commerce. BOL and TEACHER X are the Bharat infrastructure layer.

V — Approach

What we do.

01 · End-to-end

We build products end-to-end.

Strategy, brand, copy, design, film, code, AI. No agencies stacked on agencies. No telephone game between brief and launch.

02 · AI that feels

We build AI that feels.

Every product in the portfolio runs on Vesper — our proprietary assistant layer. Persistent memory, configurable personality, real-world action.

03 · Vertical bets

We build verticals.

Talent. Commerce. Consumer AI. Bharat infrastructure. Every product is a category bet — not an experiment.

VI — Difference

What makes us different.

01

Director-led, engineer-disciplined.

Most studios are one or the other. We're both because Sam is both — twenty-five years of campaign craft underneath the code.

02

Taste as a system, not a vibe.

Every product ships with a defined visual language, voice, and emotional register. Nothing gets out the door looking like AI-generated soup.

03

Vesper as the spine.

One identity layer. One memory graph. Every product we ship makes the next one better. The portfolio is the moat.

04

Speed at scale.

A traditional studio ships one product a year. We ship eight in parallel because the infrastructure is shared and the taste is centralized.

VII — Why now

The tools are finally good enough.

The tools just got good enough that one studio can do what used to take twenty agencies. Generative AI for film and image. Foundation models for assistants. Voice synthesis indistinguishable from a person. Edge compute that scales to a billion users from a laptop.

The taste, the timing, and the technology are finally in the same room.

Build wonderful things.