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Studio
Wovoka works on forest land in the Philippines and East Africa. The tools that work needed didn't exist, so we built them: offline field apps, registry pipelines, voice and workflow systems. Then we used the same team and the same methods to run several more businesses. Wovoka Studio offers that capability to clients.
Why the Philippines
A highly educated workforce, and AI that changes what a small team can do. A generation of Filipino engineers, analysts and scientists is underemployed relative to its ability. AI has collapsed the cost of turning a clear specification into working software. A small team that understands the domain now ships in weeks what used to take a quarter.
The constraint is knowing what to build. That's the part we're good at, because everything we've shipped started as a problem we had ourselves.
Mindanao to Los Angeles
Our founder
Code at Duke, a PhD built on scraped data and Stata, five years at BCG and BCG Digital Ventures (now BCG X) launching new businesses for energy companies, then entrepreneur in residence at Johnson Controls. Wovoka Studio is that route, offered to clients.
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Civil and environmental engineering at Duke's Pratt School. Wrote a Matlab program for a Duke neurobiology lab that cut its song-data processing time by 75%.
A Marshall Scholar. Wrote the scripts that scraped more than 20,000 EU border alerts, and the Stata models behind a thesis on more than 13,000 trade regulations.
Consultant to Principal in the energy practice, building new businesses for some of the world's largest energy companies.
On the founding team of the Energy practice. Built a small-scale LNG business for island grids moving off heavy fuel oil, with field work in the Caribbean to find the right points for a jetty to deliver fuel. It led to $80M+ of investment in a new business unit. Ran a blue-sky innovation sprint for the largest oil and gas company in the Middle East, narrowing to five new-venture concepts, one of them computer vision for security.
Helped conceive and launch Setel, the Petronas fuel-payment and e-wallet app, out of a 14-week innovation sprint.
Entrepreneur in residence. Launched Atrium Energy (save.energy) to bring ROI and climate benefit to mid-market buildings.
Co-founder and CEO. Nature-based projects in the Philippines, and the studio that builds and runs the software behind them.
How we work with AI
Rule 01
Emails, store changes and payments are drafted by AI and sent by a person.
Rule 02
Every number we publish, here or for a client, can be traced to its source.
Rule 03
Anything live changes through a pull request with a preview. No one, human or AI, edits production directly.
Rule 04
We build in your accounts. Secrets never go into code, and personal data never goes into a repository.
Seven products, each still running, each with a case study.