A seed, planted deliberately.
MTL Studio is a small independent studio building thoughtful AI software, end-to-end. It is also our experimental ground: every project exists to explore an idea and serve a real purpose, not to chase revenue.
Ink of Liangshan 墨染梁山
It started somewhere without a cell signal. Every offline game we tried was either too heavy — draining the battery in an hour — or built around a story and a style we did not care for. So we made our own: a single-player tactics RPG retelling the Water Margin （水浒传） in ink-wash and gold, fifteen chapters and seventeen heroes, fully offline, borrowing the mechanics we loved from the tactics games we grew up on. The campaign is complete and the game is in TestFlight, being playtested and hardened for its App Store release. It is also our experiment in AI-assisted game development: every system, painting and line of dialogue built end-to-end with AI in the loop. mtlstudio.net/mo-ran-liangshan
AI Trading
A research project on language-model-driven trading systems and quantitative pipelines. It is our experiment in verifying market hypotheses and testing trading strategies, with an honest, evals-first approach to letting models touch markets. After a season of options-income and event-driven strategies in paper trading, it has become a moat-quality stock picker: a weekly report that ranks a universe of durable-advantage companies through sector-aware quality gates on their SEC filings, for holding as shares or long-dated calls. A paper account runs the same basket as its live track record, and a language model advises on market regime while the rules keep the final say.
Reckoned Yet 算了么
A contemplative AI fortune-telling app rooted in BaZi （八字）, the Chinese Four Pillars tradition. Bilingual from day one, built for English-speaking users and the Chinese-speaking diaspora. It is our experiment in attracting users and maximizing engagement. Built first for iOS, it is now shipping to the web from the same codebase, with billing and sign-in for the browser, while the iOS build is kept ready for a later release. reckoned.app
We are a small studio building software for the long now. Every product begins as a question we want answered, and we build it end-to-end until the answer is real. We take on builds where the difference between almost working and actually working matters: senior engineers on the keyboard, from research through to your customers’ hands, and through the long tail of operations after launch.
Alongside our own products, we are open to a small amount of AI consulting and advisory work. Availability is limited, so we engage selectively, where our end-to-end experience is a genuine fit. If you are interested, write to contact@mtlstudio.net.
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