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Kyle Kesterson · Principal Builder & Educator
Hi, I'm Kyle
I work where product design, technology, and the way a company operates meet. At Demystified, I help leadership teams understand an AI opportunity, then build the system with the people who will use it.
See recent workI'm based between the Bay Area and Ecuador, work on US time, and answer my own email.
20 yearsBuilding at the edges of technology and systems design
11 million usersAcross #1 Apple apps I built
1,000+ professionalsTaught to put AI to work
Certified Claude ArchitectAnthropic Partner Program
Recent Work in 2026
Felix & Paul Studios. AI tooling, agents and workflows for the Emmy-winning immersive studio.
Futuro. An end-to-end agentic production platform for AI filmmaking.
Experience House. A year-long AI content curriculum.
GenHQ. A teaching series on AI agents for the creative education community.
Independent founders. Admin and content systems.
OpenClaw and Hermes. Agent infrastructure and virtual employees.
An architect. Positioning and launch content.
Teaching. Sessions on agentic browsing, Claude, Manus, Higgsfield, ElevenLabs and more.
"Kyle brings an artist's eye and a technologist's vision to any project. Working with him on a key marketing initiative for Winnebago was frictionless, fun, inspiring and hugely successful for the company."
What I've shipped
#1 Apple apps. 11 million users.
I built #1 Apple apps with 11 million users, and the first markerless motion capture and speak-to-animate apps to run from a phone.
From Kinect to Watson to Alexa
Consumer software for Microsoft Kinect, IBM Watson and Amazon Alexa, back when AI meant yelling at a voice that misheard you.
Six years teaching AI
I have taught over a thousand creative professionals how to use AI without needing to be software engineers.
Why this work
I like finding the workaround that has become somebody's job. The copied spreadsheet. The report that takes longer to prepare than to discuss. Following that work tells us where a system could help and what it needs to get right.
You work directly with me.
I handle discovery, building, and deployment. We test with the people who do the work. If a project needs specialist support, we agree who is involved and what they own.
The person doing the work usually knows where it gets weird. I want them in the conversation.
"Kyle is the most organized, detail oriented, laser-vision-on-huge-scale-projects person I have ever met... he provides invaluable assets of prioritizing, organization and driving the tasks... I'd clone him in a second if it was moral and legal!"
Bring a workflow
that's slowing the team down.
In a 30-minute call, we'll walk through a recent example and decide what to explore next. If the economics or access don't support a build, I'll say so.