Hellion Studios · Venture Studio
What we build for ourselves.
Hellion is a two-person venture studio. When public signal says a problem is worth solving, we build a product around it — own the IP, run it long-term, and back it with the same web/SEO/AEO infrastructure we build for clients.
Portfolio
Two products in market
Our differentiator
We built our own market research engine.
Every Monday, Gap Finder gives us a ranked list of real, evidence-backed problems that cost someone money or time. It reads the public web, extracts the pain, groups identical problems across sources, and hands us a leaderboard split into two lanes: build a product, or sell a service to the businesses feeling it.
Attribase came out of that leaderboard. So did Locals Club. So will the next one.
How Gap Finder worksNext up
In the lab
Several products are moving through Gap Finder's Product lane — local commerce infrastructure, agency tooling, and back-office automation. If one of them is yours already, we should talk.
Interested in early access to something we're building, or want to bring your own idea into the studio?
Build with usStudio model
How we operate
Three things we do differently from a typical agency or a typical startup.
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Build for one. Productize for many.
Every product starts as a real problem for a real customer. We build v1 inside a client engagement or from a market gap, prove it works, then extract the reusable layer and ship it as a product.
02
Own the IP. Run it long-term.
Hellion Studios owns the source code, the brand, and the customer relationship. Operating partners earn equity through performance — not through control of the IP.
03
Public signal decides what we build.
Instead of guessing what to build next, we rely on Gap Finder — our own market-gap discovery engine — to surface problems with real evidence behind them. If the signal is not there, we do not build.
Got an idea worth building together?
If you have a real customer, a real problem, and a thesis worth proving — we'd rather build it with you than for you. Two lanes: you have an idea, or you have a business. Either works.