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Onyx

An independent studio

Intelligence,cut & polished.

Onyx is an independent studio building AI-native products — few of them, deliberately, to the standard of objects. Two carry our name; a few more we built in the open, and gave away.

Manifesto

The best software disappears into use. It answers plainly, asks little, and earns its place by working.

We are not a factory. We take on few ideas, hold them to a high standard, and finish them properly — the way a stone is cut once, and correctly.

Artificial intelligence is our material, not our message. What we ship must feel inevitable: quiet, precise, and worth keeping.

Open source

Built in the open,
given away.

Three tools we made for ourselves and released for anyone — free, MIT-licensed, and open on GitHub.

Audio-reactive visuals

Lumina

A native macOS music player built around a real-time Metal visualizer that reacts to anything your Mac plays — even DRM-protected Apple Music and Spotify.

System hygiene

CleanYourMac

An interactive macOS cleanup tool that shows its work — every cache, log, and leftover measured before and after, and nothing ever deleted without a yes.

Focus intelligence

Acorn

A warm, local-first AI companion. Dump the chaos of a day into it and it breaks the mess into ordered task cards — then walks you through them, one at a time.

Built slowly.
Finished properly.

If that sounds like the way you want software made, we should talk.