Mr Specter Creativity
Find the problem nobody has fixed, and imagine the thing that fixes it.
Every product starts here: an idea most people would call impossible, and the decision to build it anyway.
Welcome to Specter Industries
Specter Industries is a private company that builds the future by building software and technologies that people think are impossible.
Live now: Athenos (opens in a new tab), Clardesk (opens in a new tab), Unavist (opens in a new tab). In build: Apollo.agent.
“That cannot be done.”
Specter Industries started with a sentence I kept hearing.
Bruce Destrier Specter
I never took it as an answer, but as a dare.
Bruce Destrier Specter
Three rules
Create
Find a problem to fix. Create the innovation, and develop the things that people might need.
Develop
Start making the actual thing that has to be made. Not the plan, not the announcement: the product itself, until it works.
Review
Review everything that has to be done, so that anyone who uses an app or product from Specter Industries has a great experience.
Creativity has died in modern society.
That is why everything seems the same, and I do not follow that pattern.
Bruce Destrier Specter
In ten years, creativity and innovation will die among humans and AI will take over.
That is why I build Specter Industries to be the future, not just the present.
Bruce Destrier Specter
Everything that is designed carries a purpose.
The operator
“Everything done in Specter Industries has to be done with a piece of creativity or art.”
Inside the lab
Every product is built here, one at a time. Each one arrives as a blueprint and leaves as the finished thing.
Athenos
An AI that works the problem through with you.
Built with Santiago Cruz.
Visit getathenos.com(opens in a new tab)
Live· Creativity engine
Clardesk
Build any kind of document, from the first line to the finished file.
Visit clardesk.com(opens in a new tab)
Live· Resilience engine
Unavist
Point it at a website and get a report of what the site gets wrong: design, usability, and access for people with disabilities.
Visit unavist.com(opens in a new tab)
Live· Resilience engine
Apollo.agent
A personal assistant that does almost everything you ask of it.
Address to be announced when it ships.
In build· Creativity engine
Twelve slots
3 shipped, 1 in build, 8 under development. The number only moves when something ships. In build does not count. Under development does not count. Shipped counts.
- Slot 01: Athenos, live
- Slot 02: Clardesk, live
- Slot 03: Unavist, live
- Slot 04: Apollo.agent, in build
- Slot 05: Pending, under development
- Slot 06: Pending, under development
- Slot 07: Pending, under development
- Slot 08: Pending, under development
- Slot 09: Pending, under development
- Slot 10: Pending, under development
- Slot 11: Pending, under development
- Slot 12: Pending, under development
Two engines
Every product comes out of these two. One sees the thing people say cannot be built; the other builds it and keeps it working.
Mr Specter Resilience
Keep building until it works, and keep it working once it does.
Ideas are cheap on the first day and expensive on the hundredth. This engine carries a product through the hundredth: the rewrites, the failed attempts, and the review that finds what is wrong before a user does.
If you have a reason to write, write.
The form is the only channel. Bruce Destrier Specter reads every message.