Mike Perina · builder since 2012

The thing you keep describing can be real.

I build the custom tools, dashboards, and automations you keep sketching in your head — for people who know exactly what they need but don't have a technical team. Your tangent, built.

Send me the messy version →See the proof wall →

tan·gent/ˈtan-jənt/1. a line that touches a curve and bends its direction.2. the wild idea you spin off on..build — where it becomes real.

The proof wall

Real builds. Live systems. Every link opens the real thing.

titan-hp.comStorefront

flagship▶ how it works

Capital · Titan

Capital Manager

Intake to investor wire — the public site, the investor portal, and the admin pipeline that secures every document. One system, three surfaces.

2dmikep.com2D MikeP

studio · est. 2012▶ how it works

Studio · Assembyl 3D

Assembyl 3D

Mike's shop in three tiers — quick-turn print and signage at 2D MikeP, additive manufacturing at 3D MikeP, full-service consulting at Assembyl. One operator, fourteen years.

cortex.tangent.build

automation▶ how it works

Ops · Cortex

Cortex

An internal brain: every doc, ticket, and metric, answerable in one bar.

printmatrix.app

platform▶ how it works

Manufacturing · PrintMatrix

PrintMatrix

The platform we built to actually run the print farm floor — operations, materials, products, intelligence. 55 printer models, 4,874 filaments, BOM-aware work orders.

dealhound.tangent.build

portal▶ how it works

Sales · DealHound

DealHound

A deal pipeline that chases the follow-ups so the team doesn't have to.

holocube.tangent.build

hologram▶ how it works

Experiment · Holocube

Holocube

A spinning holographic cube — pure 'can I?'

tangibleecho.com

workshop▶ how it works

Studio · Tangible Echo

Tangible Echo

A parent-and-child workshop that turns drawings, voices, and stories into 3D-printed artifacts you can hold.

forget.recipes

field kit▶ how it works

Kitchen · Counterweight

Counterweight

A no-recipe cooking companion for improv cooks. Track what's actually in stock, generate from what you want to use, and keep a rescue kit nearby when dinner goes sideways.

constellation.tangent.build

data viz

Experiment · Constellation

Constellation

A star-map of connected ideas you can fly through.

mon-amour-nyc.vercel.app

gift

Gift · Mon Amour NYC

Mon Amour NYC

A free build for a friend — strategic consulting practice for NYC mission-driven orgs.

The smallest builders

I gave them the tools and got out of the way.

All four of my kids — 9, 11, 11, and 13 — each shipped a usable product in one day, with zero help from me. The AI partner I built (Kit) ran in the background. The friction is what we were always missing. That's the whole studio in one sentence.

Gryffin

Age 9 · 1 day · 0% help

He started with one game. Then he wanted a hub. Then he wanted a Brain Lab. He didn't ask permission — he just kept building. The DBZ obsession became the universe. The school worksheets became the next site.

gryffins.games

▶ how it works

gryffins-brainlab.vercel.app

▶ how it works

gryffins.games · Gryffin's Brainlab

On the left, gryffins.games — DBZ chaos, roll/fight/spin/survive, a shipped game universe with multiplayer. On the right, the Brainlab — 23 subjects, logic puzzles, a sandbox, two hours of work and it still hums. He named every mode and every subject; we shipped both.

Brycen

Age 11 · 1 day · 0% help

Brycen went first. Once he started creating he never stopped — he was the catalyst for sparking his brothers' imagination. He wanted recipes. Then tips. Then a tips leaderboard. Then to PRINT a cookbook. There was nothing between him and any idea he could think of from stopping him.

weirdbutgood.recipes

▶ how it works

weirdbutgood.recipes

174 hand-drawn recipes, a tips leaderboard, recipe prints, and a 100-page printable cookbook. He drew every card. He's earned $55 so far.

Westen

Age 11 · 1 day · 0% help

Westen's the chaos engine. Drawings spilling out faster than anything could catalog them — so we flipped it. Open his site on a phone, scribble badly with your finger, AI makes six finished sticker styles in six seconds, pick favorites, print a hologram sheet on the Epson, cut with scissors. The kid doesn't need to be good at drawing — he just needs to start.

stickerden.tangent.build

▶ how it works

stickerden.tangent.build

Finger-scribble on the canvas → AI generates 6 styles (Classic, Anime, Pixar 3D, Sketchy, Pixel, Watercolor) → tap favorites into a tray → build a sheet on regular, hologram, or glow-in-the-dark paper → print on the Epson → scissors. The whole loop in about a minute.

Keaton

Age 13 · 1 day · 0% help

Keaton wanted a 3D house. Specifically, he wanted to walk into it on the Quest. Five rooms later he had a multiplayer XR experience with voice chat, build mode, and friends teleporting in from a browser tab.

keatons.design

▶ how it works

keatons.design

A full 3D XR experience you walk through — five rooms, multiplayer voice + text, on Quest 3 or browser. He sketched it. The Quest does the rest.

Each one was a usable product in a single day — built by a kid, with zero help from me. Imagine what that does in your business.

the people who run it

It's ridiculously custom — and our customers are absolutely loving it.
Danny · Titan Holdings Partnerson the platform Mike built to run the firm — titan-hp.com

Six shapes the work usually takes.Titan's a whole platform. Most builds are simpler.

Internal dashboards

See what matters. Finally.

Client portals

Answers without the back-and-forth.

Automation tools

Cut the busywork. Keep the leverage.

AI-assisted workflows

Smarter systems that learn with you.

Custom web apps

Built to fit the way you actually work.

MVPs that ship

Fast, sharp, grow from there.

The close

Send me the messy version of what you want built. I'll come back with the real one.

A voice memo at 1am works too. I'll tell you within 48 hours whether it's a weekend, a month, or a different conversation entirely.

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