First entry. The problem we kept seeing, and why a two-person studio answers it.
We kept seeing the same pattern: teams with clear ambition but no bridge from prototype to production.
Controlled Mayhem started as that bridge. We wanted a studio that could move from product strategy to shipped systems without organizational drag.
Two founders, narrow scope, production-first bias. That is still the model.
Andrea Phillips. (October 22, 2025). Why we started Controlled Mayhem. Controlled Mayhem - Lab Notes.
Senior engineer with deep experience building AI agent infrastructure — persistent memory, multi-agent orchestration, and MCP tooling. Designs and ships production-grade systems that make AI agents reliable, persistent, and genuinely useful. Fifteen years of full-stack and real-time engineering underpinning a focused practice in applied AI.