Elena Ramos
Founder & Creative Director
Former IDEO designer. Writes daily in the same leather notebook since 2011.
Our story began with a notebook and a question.
Peakforge Atelier was founded in 2019 by three product designers who grew tired of noisy productivity tools. We wanted calm, thoughtful systems that respected human attention.
Mission
We craft concise, humane courses that help knowledge workers build reliable AI-augmented workflows without burnout. Every lesson is tested in our own journal-first studio before it reaches you.
Principles
- Journal first. Notes before prompts.
- Ethical guardrails. No black-box automation without transparency.
- Slow craft. Depth over speed, always.
- Open source core. Templates and prompts remain yours to keep.
The makers
Marcus Hale
Co-founder & Systems Architect
Built the first version of our course platform on a single Raspberry Pi in 2020.
Sora Kim
Head of Education
Former university lecturer who left academia to focus on applied AI for writers.
Daniel Ortiz
Lead Engineer
Spends his mornings refining prompt libraries and afternoons hiking with his dog.