The team behind the studio.

We're an AI product studio. Day-to-day, that means we design, engineer, and ship products, tools, agents, and automations for our clients, and we run our own product, Chat Thing, alongside the studio. Pixelhop is small and senior. You work with the people building the thing.

A bit about our background.

Pixelhop started in 2019. One rainy February evening in Brighton, Gem took everything she'd learned in the digital world and decided to start her own thing. Zef joined full time at the end of 2020. The team has grown carefully since then, but the bar hasn't moved: small, senior, hands-on.

In 2023 we were scared AI would replace us. So we decided to become the ones building with it. We started Chat Thing as a learning vehicle. Could we build AI agents that actually worked in real workflows, not just demos? We built it, tested it, broke it, fixed it. Somewhere along the way it stopped being a side project and started being something people wanted to use.

By 2024, clients were coming to us specifically for AI work. We'd gone from curious experimenters to the team people called when they wanted AI done properly. We're not a web development studio that does AI projects anymore. We're an AI product studio. The tech stack changed. The mission didn't.

How we work now.

Our working principle is human-led, AI-powered. AI handles the repetitive pattern-matching and the heavy lifting. Our team handles the creative leaps and the strategic calls. The projects that work best aren't the ones where AI gets bolted onto an existing idea. They're the ones where AI is woven in from day one. We've made the early mistakes already so our clients don't have to.

If you want the longer version of how we got here, we wrote it up.

If you've got something you want to build, send us an email or find us on Twitter.