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If you are working on how people and technology relate to each other — and you are asking that question before the answers have been decided — we would like to hear from you.

What a conversation with k_o looks like:

We are not a full-service agency. We do not execute at scale. What we do is think carefully about design situations that are still open — and make that thinking concrete.

A conversation with us might produce an experience framework. A set of design propositions. A patent. A prototype. A new way of framing a question your team has been circling.

What it will always involve: a genuine inquiry into the situation, conducted with the seriousness it deserves.

Who we are most useful to:

Organizations building connected, adaptive technology — in mobility, healthcare, AI, public infrastructure, or adjacent domains — who are asking not only what this system should do but what kind of participant it should be.

Teams who have reached the edge of what current interaction paradigms can offer and are looking for a way to see differently.

People who believe that design has something to contribute before the engineering is complete — and who want a collaborator who will stay in that uncertain space long enough to find something real.

The invitation:

We are looking for the next context where this way of seeing finds its most useful home.

That might be a project. A residency. A research partnership. A conversation over coffee that becomes something else.

We are genuinely open to the form.

Engagement:

k_o adapts to project scope and the nature of the collaboration. Engagements have taken the form of focused concept sprints, long-term studio partnerships, embedded research, and ongoing advisory work. We start from the question, not the contract.

To every collaboration we bring social imagination, genuine curiosity, and the discipline to stay in a question until it becomes something worth building.