playhead.fm, an AI-powered music mixing and production tool. Since May 2026.
Same job, different room. It is still software built for people doing creative work, aimed at getting the machinery out from between them and the thing they are trying to make. The difference is who is on the other side of it: musicians, producers, and mixing engineers, rather than animators, VFX artists, and game designers.
The problems rhyme more than you would expect them to. Somebody is trying to make something, and in the way of it sits a pile of technical work that is not the thing. Whether that pile is a render queue or a mix session, most of what you learn about clearing it carries over.
That is not a connection I noticed afterwards and tidied up into a story. It is why I took the job.