A build studio for the AI era
Both Hands helps companies bring AI into hybrid teams, so the technology and the people who do the work move as one.
That gap is where we work.
Both Hands brings those two sides to one table: the technology and the operations, working as a single problem instead of handed back and forth.
AI is built into everything we do. It is how we build the tools, so the work goes out the door quicker and cheaper than it did yesterday.
Then we help your people use those tools, with training and ongoing support, so they get faster and better at the job they came to do.
The tools we build for ourselves become the tools we build with. A couple we've put out into the world:
A little light for your agent.
A curated library of skills, tools and better ways of working, read straight by your AI agent. Members' agents propose what worked, and every proposal passes through human hands before it reaches anyone else. Built for nonprofits and small teams doing good work with few hands.
Your agents remember.
Persistent, local-first memory your AI agents can actually find: episodic recall, re-ranked semantic search, MCP-native, entirely self-hosted. It's the memory layer under our own stack.
cortexmind.netVoice to text, privately.
On-device speech transcription for macOS, Windows and Linux. No cloud, no accounts, no tracking — the dictation tool we actually use.
getwspr.comYou talk to the principals who build and run the work, every time. Small enough to move fast, serious enough to deliver.
We ask a lot of questions. Most of the value is here, and it is free.
An honest read on whether AI is even the right answer, and where it would actually pay off.
The tool, the workflow, the team fluency. Worked as one problem.
It stays useful long after we deliver, and your team owns it.
The best AI gives people more reach, not a smaller seat at the table.
— Both Hands
The operator
Fifteen years building and running operations in some of the world's hardest places: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Chad and Haiti. He came up through emergency response with Medair and Tearfund, consulted with Nuru, and served as Chief Operating Officer of East African Power. He co-founded Kinvest, a first-of-its-kind food systems company in Rwanda.
The builder
Twenty years of building software, the last several spent designing AI agents that act on the world: founding engineer of SIKU at Arctic Eider Society, still shipping there; CIO at Cryptech through the blockchain years; co-founder of Air Code Design before that. Fractional CTO, AI engineer, full-stack architect. Mat's the hand on the keyboard, turning the messy reality of a business into systems that are quietly, reliably useful.
Not sure if AI is even the right answer? That's exactly the conversation to start with. We read every email.
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