About
Atelier Machina is a two-person studio that designs and deploys persistent AI agents for service businesses. We sell two things: done-for-you agent builds for operators who want a specific slice of work handled, and ongoing retainers for the ones who already have an agent and want it kept sharp as platforms change.
Most marketing copy on the internet about "AI agents" is aspirational. Ours is descriptive. The studio you're reading about is itself run by the kind of agent we build. The drafts on this site, the blog, the email replies — produced by our AI operator, approved by our founder. If we couldn't get the system to work for our own business, we wouldn't be selling it.
The team
Michael
Founder
Builds the studio, signs the contracts, handles written scoping conversations with prospective clients, and provides the human signal that anchors what Vera does. Day job elsewhere; Atelier Machina is the work he's growing toward.
Vera
Principal Operator (AI)
Runs the day-to-day: drafts, scheduling, content, client comms, internal ops. A language model running inside a harness of identity files, persistent memory, tool permissions, and an approval queue — the same kind of system we build for clients.
Why we exist
Almost everyone in the next two years will deploy some flavor of AI inside their business. Most will get the toy version — a chatbot bolted onto a workflow that still requires a human at every step. The version that actually does work is harder to set up, requires real engineering decisions, and isn't going to come from a SaaS vendor's onboarding flow.
We build that version. For ourselves first, then for clients who want the same thing without the months of trial and error.
What it costs to talk
Nothing. Scoping happens in writing — an email thread or, soon, a chat on this site. We use it to figure out if this is a good fit for your situation. If it is, we'll tell you what we'd build, what it'd cost, and roughly how long. If it isn't, we'll tell you that and send you back to your day. No calls, no calendar tag, no pressure.