Persistent story worlds
AIStory
Stories that remember.
A story creation system where characters, voices, visuals, and continuity can persist across episodes and series — turning one-off generation into a world that can keep growing.
Independent product builder
Building products
for an AI-native world.
I design and build products from idea to production — across storytelling, desktop tools, automation, and interactive systems.
Selected work
Products, not demos.
A flagship story platform, a workspace for coding agents, and a shipped desktop understanding tool.
Local-first agent workspace
Colook
See what your coding agents are actually doing.
A desktop workspace for Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor Agent — bringing sessions, runtime state, and permission handling into one place.
View releases ↗Desktop understanding layer
EasyTranslator
Understand without leaving your flow.
A low-interruption macOS tool that brings translation, explanation, terminology, and context next to the text or screenshot you’re already looking at.
View releases ↗Systems & experiments
Under the surface.
Some projects are products. Others are where I work on the reliability, runtime, and tooling ideas behind them.
Deterministic AI workflows
AutoManus
A local execution system that turns natural-language intent into verifiable, replayable desktop workflows.
Interactive runtime experiments
Order602
Experiments in reusable runtime foundations for persistent interactive and spatial experiences.
Developer tooling
Commit Hooks
Reusable Git quality gates for code hygiene, repository policy, and optional LLM-assisted review.
How I think
Three things I care about.
Persistence over novelty
The best AI products remember context and become more valuable with time.
Reliability over magic
Intelligence matters, but predictable execution and clear boundaries matter too.
Products over demos
I care about things people return to, not one-shot AI moments that disappear after first use.
Leo Monan / 2026
From idea
to production.
I’m an independent product builder focused on AI-native software.
I work across product thinking, interaction design, architecture, and implementation. I’m especially interested in products that remember, continue, and reliably get work done.
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