Strange Co-Pilot
The AI that runs our studio operations, and the place new models prove themselves before we use them for clients.
Every great idea sounded strange at first.
- Apply to partner
From £14K cash plus equity
- Start a sprint
From £3,000 a week, no equity
We build the strange ones: human expertise, at AI speed.
One team, from first sketch to years after launch.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
What's your strange idea?
- Apply to partner
From £14K cash plus equity
- Start a sprint
From £3,000 a week, no equity
AI is only new to you. Not to us.
Most businesses know they should be using it. Few know where to start, what it will cost, or what happens to their data once it's in.
We've been building with AI for almost a decade. What keeps you up at night is our day job. So we move at AI speed, with human experts at the wheel.
Bring us the AI idea you're not sure about→Featured ventures and products
Sounded strange. So we built them.
Kwelio
Medication verified by a photo, scored for insurers.
Dubai's App of the Year 2026, from 9,754 entries
Estimait
Agency quotes estimated by AI.
50x faster scoping. Valued at £2.5M.
SEQR
Secure QR codes for premium brands.
73,000+ scans in 12 months
Your environmentOn-prem & VPC - Docs
- PDFs
- Slides
- Research archives
Index
Model
LlamaCynk
Private AI that runs inside your own network.
Deploys air-gapped
Generoute
Running loops planned anywhere, instantly.
Proof of concept. Waitlist open.
Who We Work With
Four paths to building together
FOR CAPITALISED FOUNDERS
Your technical & product co-founder
From idea to launch. Strategy, design, architecture, build. Cash-first engagements — equity partnerships available for the right ventures.
CASH + EQUITYFULL PRODUCT BUILDCTO + CPO INPUT
FOR AGENCIES
Your tech team, on demand
White-label delivery under your brand. From complex platforms to well-scoped campaign builds — anything with clear scope. 50+ projects delivered.
WHITE-LABEL DELIVERYONGOING SUPPORTNDA PROTECTED
FOR PUBLIC BODIES
Websites, platforms and AI for public services
Design and build for UK and UAE public bodies. Approved supplier on the UAE federal procurement platform, and bidding through UK public-sector portals.
UK + UAE ENTITIESFIXED-PRICE MILESTONESSUPPORTED AFTER LAUNCH
FOR ONE DEFINED PIECE OF WORK
Start with a sprint
One, two or four weeks on a feature, a fix, a proof of concept or a discovery. From £3,000 a week, with the scope agreed in writing before we start.
1, 2 OR 4 WEEKSFIXED SCOPECASH, NO EQUITY
Prices start at £3,000 for a sprint, £20K for a build, and £14K cash plus equity for a venture partnership.
Process
The 4D Framework
Discover, design, develop, deploy, in that order.
01
Discover
Two weeks of hard questions. What are we actually solving, who pays, and what would make this idea fail? Cheaper to kill a bad assumption now than a bad product later.
02
Design
Product-first UX before pixel-perfect UI. We prototype the flow, test the friction, then design something worth building.
03
Develop
Architecture decisions that don't haunt you at Series A. Opinionated stack choices from people who've shipped 16+ ventures and rebuilt broken ones.
04
Deploy
Launch, iterate, ready you to raise. We stay long enough to see the numbers move.
Brands we've worked with
Long-running clients
…and still running them years later.
Client sites we built and stayed with.
Our own studio
StarGen Labs
StarGen is Strange Tech’s own studio. We fund and ship our own products on the same stack we build client work on. One shipped and selling, two in MVP, the rest in build or running internally.
Explore StarGen→Our Network
Advisors from Grey and Saatchi & Saatchi
Our advisors have led teams inside major creative agencies and global brands. Commercially and creatively fluent.
GreySaatchi & SaatchiSony
You've got the idea. We've got the team.
Send a few lines on the product, the budget and the timeline. We'll tell you whether we're the right team for it.