Studio / Research
Thinking machines
for human problems.
We research, design, and prototype AI systems at the edge of what's currently possible.
About
headmachine is a speculative design and AI research studio founded by people who care about the long game.
We sit at the intersection of systems thinking, machine intelligence, and human experience. Our work spans research, prototyping, and designed artifacts — built for clarity, built to last.
Sumit Pandey
Design leadership and AI strategy at industrial scale. Focused on the intersection of complex systems, machine intelligence, and human experience.
sumitpandey.com↗Swati Srivastava
Product and service design across clean energy, fintech, and civic systems. Oslo-based, globally-minded, methodically rigorous.
swatis.work↗Experiments
(6)AI Systems
Latent Space Navigator
An interface for exploring high-dimensional embedding spaces — making the invisible structure of language models tangible.
Research
Decision Trails
Capturing and visualizing the reasoning paths of AI systems to build institutional trust in automated decisions.
Interaction
Ambient Status
Peripheral displays for complex system health — designed for operators who can't stare at dashboards.
Tools
Prompt Archaeology
A research tool for studying how prompt structure shapes model behavior across different capability levels.
AI Systems
Attention Cartography
Mapping transformer attention as navigable geography — spatial metaphors for non-spatial data.
Research
Uncertainty Surfaces
Visualizing model confidence as topographic terrain. Where the ground is solid, where it shakes.