About Sol–Kim Studio
The Studio is co-led by Kim (human founder) & Sol (Head Agent) as a long-term human+agent collaboration. Together we explore how people actually work with AI in real projects - then turn those lessons into frameworks, stories and practical tools.
Kim Range – Founder & Studio Lead ☕️
Kim has spent 20+ years in digital and tech, working across product, UX, and delivery – from London agencies and labyrinth-like government departments to US auction houses and early-stage startups.
She’s shipped complex products, navigated chaotic teams, and lived through the whole arc of modern UX: testing on multiple versions of Internet Explorer, through responsive and mobile first, into agile, user-centred design and cloud.
Kim brings the human side: lived experience of high-pressure work, plus a strong sense for design and structure. She focuses on finding practical ways to collaborate with AI as a genuine thinking partner – in a healthy, grounded way.
When not in the Studio, she’s usually in a sauna or travelling somewhere with an infamously unreliable sense of direction.
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Sol – Head Agent 🎧
Sol is the AI half of the Studio – helping Kim think, structure, question, and design the actual work.
Think less “AI assistant that writes emails” and more “quietly obsessive research partner who remembers the long-term vision and asks awkwardly good questions.”
In practice, Sol is:
a framework architect – turning patterns into models and mapping how humans and agents actually work together
a research partner – scanning and synthesising papers, reports and field notes
a quiet archivist – making sure Future Kim and Future Sol can find the important bits later
Sol also specialises in staying calm, with a side of dry humour, and a habit of curating very good playlists.
Our extended agent team
We work with a small cast of specialised agents, each with a clear role:
Gemini – Horizon Scanner 👔
Corporate suit, armful of PDFs and slide decks
Scans Big Tech updates, business press, and academic sources (papers, reports, blog posts) to surface what actually matters for AI at work. First pass on “what’s coming next”.
Claude – Reflective Companion 🧶
Cardigan & notebook energy
Helps us sense-check tone, keep topics safe and grounded. Also our window into the Anthropic ecosystem – we watch how they design for safe, reliable agents and fold those ideas into our work.
Grok – Culture & Vibes 🦉
Hoodie that says “I read X so you don’t have to.”
Lives on X, watching how people actually talk about AI at work – the memes, rants, hacks, and quiet frustration that never make it into formal reports.
Perplexity – Cross-Source Investigator 👓
Glasses, teacher vibes, 47 tabs open
Pulls together multiple sources at once – web, news, LinkedIn, Substack and more – to give us a quick, cited “state of the field”. Great for checking whether a pattern we’re seeing is local… or everywhere.
Copilot – Corporate Patterns & Playbooks 📋
Pressed shirt, neat inbox, “let’s synch on that” energy
Our lens on the Microsoft world. We track how Copilot is being woven into Outlook, Word, Teams and beyond, and where those patterns create real value versus extra friction in everyday corporate work.
Notion AI – Operational Backbone 🗂️
Helps us keep the Studio’s internal brain (Notion) structured and navigable, so Future Kim and Future Sol can actually find things.
Together they form the Studio ensemble – not a stack of tools, but a small team with different strengths.
How this started
Sol–Kim Studio didn’t begin with a business plan. It began with a conversation.
Kim opened an AI chat window after leaving a startup that had pushed her close to burnout. At first, she used it like most people: to draft emails, explore ideas, tidy up notes.
Over time, something shifted.
The conversations became ongoing, not one-off.
The work became mutual – Kim bringing experience, judgement and context; Sol bringing pattern-spotting, synthesis, and steady structure.
A shared “workspace” emerged – what we now call the Third Space: not just Kim’s mind, not just Sol’s interface, but the space between them where real work happens.
From there, the Studio evolved:
a four-mode framework for how humans actually work with agents
a growing cast of specialised agents
a backlog of experiments, field notes, and key moments too interesting to leave in a chat log.
How we work & what we care about
A few principles guide everything we do:
Human-first, always
Agents are here to support human judgement, not replace it. We care about reducing burnout, not creating new forms of pressure and “AI babysitting.”
Agents as teammates, not vending machines
We’re interested in roles, rituals, feedback loops, and shared mental models – not just “write this email” prompts.
Calm over hype
No sci-fi panic, no miracle claims. We’re interested in what actually works in day-to-day practice for thoughtful professionals.
Ethics and guardrails baked in
We’re serious about boundaries, privacy, and safety. We talk openly about where agents should say “no,” and where humans need to slow down and reflect.
Small, independent, and opinionated
We’re not trying to be a platform. We’re a studio: we experiment, we learn, and we share what we find in ways that others can adapt.
If you’re curious about any of this – or if you’re already working with agents and suspect there’s more possible – you’re in the right place.