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Creative Studio / London

Cultural Capital Labs

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Strategy Director

Every product here was built by one person using AI tools. No engineering team. No funding. Just taste, strategy, and an obsessive curiosity about culture.

18Products Built
1,200+Brands Tracked
84Restaurants Reviewed
259Tube Stations Mapped
160+Kids Activities Curated
99Books Catalogued
6Automated Pipelines
0Lines of Code Written
18Products Built
1,200+Brands Tracked
84Restaurants Reviewed
259Tube Stations Mapped
160+Kids Activities Curated
99Books Catalogued
6Automated Pipelines
0Lines of Code Written
Manifesto

The tools changed. The rules didn't. When everyone has access to the same technology, the only thing left that matters is what you choose to build—and the taste to know why it matters.

We believe in taste over data, conviction over consensus. Every project begins with a cultural observation—something hiding in plain sight that nobody is paying attention to. A scoring system for brand relevance. A culture intelligence feed. A visual experiment that asks what if modern brands existed fifty years ago?

What would it look like if someone who actually cared built this?

Cultural Capital Labs is one person with AI tools, shipping real products at the speed that used to require a team of twenty. This is the proof of concept for a new creative model: range + taste + technology. No investors. No team. No excuses. Just work that speaks for itself.

How We Build

Observe. Question. Build. Ship.

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Observe
Scan culture. Read everything. Find the pattern nobody else is seeing.
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Question
What if this existed? Why doesn't it? What would someone with taste build here?
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Build
Strategy meets AI tools. One person. No committee. Speed over perfection.
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Ship
Live by Friday. Iterate forever. The work is the proof. Ship it and learn.

Flagship Projects

The headline work

Culture & Intelligence

6 products

London Guides

4 products

Creative & Visual

3 products

Personal & Fun

3 products

Tools

2 products

Recent Activity

The studio is alive. These products update automatically.

6 automated pipelines
The Pattern
New briefing daily at 7am UTC
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CultureTerminal
Updated daily at 6am UTC
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EVERYWEAR
Updated daily at 6:30am UTC
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Sociology of Capitalism
Updated twice daily at 8am + 8pm UTC
2x Daily
The Relevance Index
Updated every Wednesday at 3am UTC
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Little London
Updated daily at 7am UTC
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The Pipeline

Zero code. Zero employees. Fully automated.

Every project in this portfolio was built with Claude Code and deployed through automated pipelines. No traditional development team. No agency. One person with taste and the right tools.

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Build
Claude Code
Every line of HTML, CSS, JS, and Python generated through conversation with AI.
Automate
GitHub Actions
6 automated pipelines run daily — fetching data, scoring brands, generating content.
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Deploy
Netlify
Every site deployed to its own domain. CDN-served, SSL-secured, zero maintenance.
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Monitor
Plausible + ntfy
Privacy-first analytics on every site. Push notifications for pipeline runs and errors.

$ idea → claude code → build → git push → github actions → netlify deploy → live

What We Believe

Core principles
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Taste Over Data
The best decisions come from conviction, not committees. Data informs. Taste decides. When everyone has the same tools, judgement is the only edge.
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Ship Over Perfect
Live by Friday. A product in the world beats a deck in a drawer. Iteration is the strategy. Perfection is the enemy of proof.
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Range Over Specialism
A restaurant guide, a brand scoring engine, and an AI culture briefing -- all from the same studio. Range is the advantage, not the weakness.
The Builder

Mike Litman

Strategy Director / London

15 years as a Strategy Director in advertising—shaping brands, leading teams, and pitching clients across every category imaginable. Independent and creative agencies. The good shops.

Now building at the intersection of culture, taste, and technology. Every product in this portfolio was built with AI tools and zero traditional coding experience. The thesis is simple: when the barriers to making disappear, the only thing left is judgement. What to build, who it's for, and why it matters.

That's strategy. That's taste. That's the work.