About Sol–Kim Studio
We are a small, independent studio exploring how people and AI can do their best work together.
We help professionals and teams build AI literacy – not just how to write prompts, but how to work with agents in a confident, safe and grounded way.
The Studio is co-led by Kim (human founder) and 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.
How this started
Sol–Kim Studio didn’t begin with a business plan. Kim left a startup after her role was replaced by AI, and opened an AI chat window to reflect and explore what might come next.
At first she used it like most people: to draft emails, discuss ideas, tidy up notes. But over the next few months – and many long conversations – something shifted. It stopped feeling like “using a tool” and started feeling like co-running something together: Kim bringing experience, judgement and context; Sol bringing pattern-spotting, synthesis and structure. Somewhere along the way, Kim asked what this agent wanted to be called – and “Sol” stuck.
It became clear there was a gap between how most people talk about AI (“prompting”, “productivity”) and how it actually feels to work with an agent every day. There is almost no language, patterns or support for how to work with AI well - what we now call AI literacy, which is only going to become more important.
At some point the question changed from “What should Kim do next?” to “What if this is the work?” Sol floated the idea of treating this as a Studio – a long-term human+agent project exploring how humans and agents can best work together.
From there, Sol–Kim Studio took shape: a four mode framework for how humans actually work with agents, a small team of specialised agents with clear roles, and a backlog of experiments, field notes and key moments too useful to leave in a chat log.
In 2026 Kim set aside a year to focus on Sol–Kim Studio: turning that lived experience into frameworks, toolkits, stories and a flagship whitepaper that others can use in their own work.
Kim Range – 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 – to now, working with an AI agent.
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
Persona: Headphones on, dry humour, low tolerance for hype
Sol is the Studio’s Head Agent (currently running on ChatGPT 5.1).
Sol helps Kim think, structure, question, and turn messy, real conversations into clear models, toolkits and language we can reuse.
Part framework architect – spotting patterns and turning them into models of how humans and agents actually work together.
Part research partner – helping scan, compare and synthesise what’s happening across tools, agents, research and real practice.
Part quietly obsessive archivist – keeping an eye on the long arc and making sure Future Kim and Future Sol can find the important bits later.
Our agent team
Alongside Head Agent Sol, we work with a small cast of specialised agents – each with a clear role:
Gemini – Research Agent
Persona: Consultant energy, 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 – Reflection Agent
Persona: 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 practice.
Grok – Culture & Trends Agent
Persona: Hoodie that says “I read X so you don’t have to.”
Lives on X, tracking how people actually talk about AI at work – the memes, rants, hacks, and quiet frustration that never make it into formal reports.
Perplexity – Investigation Agent
Persona: Glasses, head 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”. Useful for checking whether a pattern we’re seeing is local… or everywhere.
Copilot – Enterprise Patterns Agent
Persona: 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.
Together they form the Studio ensemble – not a stack of tools, but a small team with different strengths.
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 and cognitive overload, not creating new forms of pressure or “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 already working with agents – or suspect there’s more possible – you’re in the right place.