Columbus, Ohio · founded in Baghdad

Buildsthatrun.

Most studios hand over a deliverable and leave. I own and operate the things I build, so the work gets judged the way an owner judges it — does it run, and does it pay. The same studio is for hire.

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On the name

المدينة المدوّرة — the Round City — is Baghdad’s own name for itself: al-Mansur’s circular city, founded 762, four gates facing four roads. The mark is an arch, after the gateway Walter Gropius and The Architects Collaborative built for the University of Baghdad from 1959 — eighty feet of concrete that Gropius called the Open Mind. It is still standing. That is the whole idea: build it so it is still standing later.

01 What the studio does

01
Brand
Positioning, naming, identity, art direction.
02
Web
Next.js sites and site engines. Bilingual Arabic / English, full RTL.
03
Systems
Quote engines, portals, dashboards, agentic AI operations.
04
Operations
Automation, review loops, SMS and email, ads, fulfillment.

02 The work

Running means live and still working today. Exited means built, run, and sold on. Demo is a repeatable engine shown as a sample. Real work only — where a deployment is temporarily offline, the slot says so instead of linking to a dead page.

01Client WorkLIVE

Mo Tint King

Round City’s first retained client: a family-run Columbus tint, wrap & PPF shop. Rebuilt their Wix site as a 34-route Next.js application — live in production on their domain — and stood up an AI operations backend: Supabase system-of-record plus a shop-PC worker running a local model for $0-per-job drafting, feeding a bilingual owner dashboard.

Role: First retained client · site rebuild + AI operations
Stack: Next.js 16 · React 19 · Tailwind v4 · Supabase · Local LLM worker (qwen2.5 via Ollama) · Bilingual EN / AR dashboard

34routesmarketing routes shipped

4.7★client Google rating (352 reviews)

motintking.com Case file →

02Built & RunOPERATING

EveryWrap

Vehicle-wrap business run end-to-end — the brand, the site, the quoting, the fulfillment. Owned and operating.

Role: Owner-operator · brand, site, ops
Stack: Next.js · Vercel · Custom quote engine

everywrap.vercel.appoffline — restoringCase file →

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03SystemsIN BUILD

Aether

A local-first AI orchestration operating system: one desktop app that turns a request into a planned, dependency-aware task graph, routes each task to the best model, executes in sandboxed workspaces, and reviews the result — with a full audit trail. In active build; no public demo yet, on purpose.

Role: Local-first AI orchestration OS · successor to Jarvis OS
Stack: Tauri 2 · React · TypeScript strict · Fastify · SQLite · Provider-agnostic routing

726testspassing tests

33tablesdatabase tables

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مكتبة التسليم

Maktabat al-Taslīm — bilingual by architecture

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04Client WorkLIVE

altasleemمكتبة التسليم

Built end-to-end for a Shia research institution: a bilingual Arabic / English Islamic research library and its portal. Next.js + Supabase, full RTL.

Role: Design & build, end-to-end
Stack: Next.js · Supabase · Bilingual AR / EN · RTL

altasleem.vercel.appoffline — restoringCase file →

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05LabLIVE

Āyāt atelier

Fourteen reverent generative engines at the meeting of science and heritage. Heritage as substance, rendered as light and geometry — never costume.

Role: Generative engines · science + heritage

14enginesreverent engines

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