Human Scale First
We design for hands, not warehouses. Our machines fit human spaces, human rhythms, and human understanding.
The human is our basic axiom.
Cognitive Intimacy
Operating at the speed of human thought, not processor cycles. We design for conversation, not commands.
Transparent Agency
Every decision should be knowable. We reject black box intelligence in favor of accountable systems.
Essential Minimalism
Finding the irreducible core of what makes a machine truly helpful and eliminating everything else.
Local Intelligence
Our machines think where they work, developing understanding through direct interaction.
Respectful Enhancement
Amplifying human capability without replacing human judgment, creativity, or wisdom.
Our Manifesto
We create intelligent machines that begin and end with human needs, human scale, and human values. Our thinking machines are small not because we lack ambition, but because we believe the most profound technology operates at the intimate scale of human experience.
We design intelligence that complements rather than replaces human thinking—machines that understand context, respect limitations, and enhance capability without diminishing agency. Each product emerges from the fundamental truth that technology should serve human flourishing, not the reverse.
Our machines think alongside humans, not for them. They operate in human time, respond to human touch, and align with human intuition. We reject the notion that powerful intelligence requires vast, impersonal systems. Instead, we pursue elegant minimalism: finding the essential core of what makes something truly helpful and stripping away everything else.
At smallthinkingmachines, we craft tools that remember they are tools—intelligent companions that remain knowable, controllable, and fundamentally in service to the humans who create, use, and live with them.
Technology with human dignity. Intelligence with human scale. Innovation with human purpose.
Thinking at Human Scale
Companion
A thinking machine that learns your context and enhances your daily cognitive tasks
Reflect
Local intelligence that helps you process thoughts and make decisions with clarity
Grow
A learning companion that evolves with you, building knowledge together
Our Philosophy
"The most profound technology operates at the intimate scale of human experience, thinking alongside humans, not for them."
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Human-scale intelligence for human flourishing