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Above Earth Productions

About A one-person AI studio in Austin, Texas.

I’m Chris, an AI-assisted full-stack artist, architect and engineer.

A fly-in from orbit to downtown Austin at blue hour.

Chris

The person behind the studio.

I run Above Earth Productions on my own. I spend most of my working hours engineering, writing code and managing my team, a fleet of AI agents.

Run by
Chris
Role
AI-assisted full-stack artist, architect and engineer
Team
Fleets of AI agents
Based in
Austin, Texas
Company
Above Earth Productions

Certifications and programs

  • Advanced ScrumMaster and Product Owner certifications
  • Agile product and delivery management
  • Professional certifications from Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford, Duke, Google, IBM and Dell

The full list is on my LinkedIn

The stack

The whole stack, from the ground up.

Everything I ship rests on layers I build and run myself, each on top of the last. Here they are from the ground up.

  1. Infrastructure

    I define infrastructure as code, across Linux and Mac machines in my studio and the cloud on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.

  2. Software

    On that infrastructure I run industry software alongside my own software, tooling and harnesses, and I contribute to open source.

  3. Harnesses

    Each agent works inside a harness that gives it its tools and keeps it on task. I use Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Orca and Zed, along with harnesses of my own written in Rust.

  4. Agents

    I build the agents on the leading foundation models, on open-source models I host myself, and on models I train myself.

    Machine learning and my own models

  5. The fleet

    Dozens of agents run 24/7, each with its own role, coordinated through my own orchestration platform and software like Orca.

    AI architecture and operations

  6. What the agents build

    My agents build software, make content and run operations, and I wire services such as Vercel, Railway, Supabase, fal, Runway, Midjourney and Suno into working products, for my own projects and for clients.

From my studio at home to the cloud, and on to whatever scale the work needs.

The studio and lab

A production studio and an AI lab.

I put my creative energy into running a full artistic pipeline and content studio, from concept art and storyboards to video and music, in a room purpose-built for listening and production-quality work.

  1. The room

    I had my studio measured and engineered for sound, with acoustic treatment that keeps reflections low, so playback is accurate. It’s built around Dynaudio reference monitors and an RME audio interface.

  2. Images and video

    Images and video come from Midjourney, Seedance and Runway, among other models, and I edit them in Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve on calibrated mini-LED and OLED displays.

  3. Music

    I make music with Suno, edit it in Cubase, Ableton Live and Logic Pro, and run a channel on Suno. My hardware includes an Ashun Sound Machines Leviasynth, Arturia gear and an Ableton Push. My wife also plays several instruments and makes vocal appearances.

Toolbox

The toolbox.

Models

  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic Claude
  • Google Gemini
  • DeepSeek
  • Kimi
  • Grok
  • Self-hosted open-source models

Studio

  • Dynaudio monitors
  • RME audio interface
  • Calibrated mini-LED and OLED displays
  • ASM Leviasynth
  • Arturia
  • Ableton Push
  • Linux workstation
  • Mac

Coding agents and dev

  • Claude Code
  • Codex
  • Cursor
  • Orca
  • Zed
  • Rust
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • C
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Zod
  • Vitest
  • Playwright
  • GitHub

Radio and drones

  • Icom IC-7300MK2
  • Yaesu FTDX10
  • Yaesu handhelds
  • GEPRC drones
  • DJI drones

Cloud, hosting and data

  • Microsoft Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • Vercel
  • Railway
  • Supabase
  • Stripe

Image, video and music

  • Midjourney
  • Seedance
  • Runway
  • Suno
  • fal
  • FLUX
  • ComfyUI
  • GPT Image
  • Grok Imagine
  • Cubase
  • Ableton Live
  • Logic Pro
  • Final Cut Pro
  • DaVinci Resolve

Data

  • NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center
  • National Weather Service
  • NASA DONKI
  • NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory
  • NASA OMNIWeb
  • NASA Visible Earth
  • GFZ Potsdam
  • MIT Haystack Madrigal
  • PSK Reporter
  • Reverse Beacon Network
  • DX cluster networks
  • WSPRnet
  • CelesTrak
  • SatNOGS
  • Parks on the Air
  • Summits on the Air
  • NCVEC question pools

Tools I work with. No affiliation or endorsement implied.

Let’s make contact.

Email is the best way to reach me, whether it’s about AI for your team or one of my projects.

hello@aboveearthproductions.com