A one-person studio with a portfolio mindset.
York Studio is a holding company for software — a home for a growing collection of independent, AI-native apps, all built by a single founder.
The thesis is simple: automation and artificial intelligence have made it possible for one person to build what used to take a team. York Studio exists to take full advantage of that — shipping focused products quickly, learning from real users, and reinvesting what works into the next idea.
Rather than betting everything on a single product, the studio model spreads ideas across a shared foundation of design, infrastructure and brand — so every new launch starts further ahead than the last.
Leverage over headcount
The right tools beat a bigger team. Stay small, stay fast.
Useful over impressive
Products earn their place by saving people real time.
In the open
Build, share progress, and let the work speak for itself.
Apps built on that thesis.
The portfolio is where the studio model shows up in practice — focused products, shipped by one founder.
View the portfolio