Douglas Kinnison
Forward Deployed Engineer · Agentic AI Founder & CEO · Developer · Design & art direction — every seat at the table
Résumé · Rev 2026.09
OPEN TO FDE ROLES
50+
Apps & games shipped
200K+
Weekly players · Spell Royale
25+
Years building product
'09
Mobile & 3D since '09

Profile

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Designer, engineer, and founder who leads, builds, and ships. Twenty-five years turning a blank canvas into products people actually use, now building agentic AI end to end: autonomous agents, the harnesses and loops that run them, and the evals that keep them honest.

Experience

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2024 — NowFounder

Founder & Principal

Division 6 — agentic AI studio

For a decade we've built the software other people ship — animation and presentation tools, native apps, and SaaS platforms — for large organizations, non-profits, and startups, most of it white-labeled through agencies. Today the work is agentic AI.

2024 — NowCEO

CEO & Co-Founder

Reffo.ai — AI-first marketplace

A chat-first, zero-fee peer-to-peer marketplace with an autonomous agent that lists, negotiates, and closes deals inside seller-set limits. Built on Pelagora. Reffo began as a food-service SaaS for restaurant and business flash deals, closed in 2024, and relaunched as Reffo.ai.

2026 — NowCEO

CEO & Co-Founder

Pelagora — open commerce protocol

An open protocol where commerce works like the internet itself: a decentralized network where every node is a marketplace, peers discovered directly with no central registry. Your data stays yours.

2016 — NowCEO

CEO & Founder

P15 Studios — games studio

Original games studio. Began with Role Play Television (RPTV), where the outcome of gameplay set the story arc of a live-action TV series. That evolved into titles like Spell Royale — a word-game battle royale on Reddit pulling 200K+ weekly players in its first 60 days.

Spell Royale · Lexicube · Tears of God · The Vault · Hooky-Bob 1 & 2
OngoingAdvisor

Advisor & Coach · Fractional CEO / CMO / CTO

Startups · Accelerators · Founders

Advise startups on fundraising and business structuring, and teach pitching and sales at accelerators and coworking spaces. The method is one move: boil the idea down to two sentences, then expand it to the market you're chasing.

2009 — 2021Director / Dev

Marketing Director · Digital Art Director · Developer

Independent & agency — IBM, GE, AVFuel, Hino, Peterbilt, Wunderground, Dash Studios, and more

Marketing direction, art direction, and development for national brands. Mobile and Unity 3D work from 2009, plus influence.INC — a startup for trading shares of influencers instead of companies.

Capabilities

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ALeadership & business

Founder / CEOFractional execFundraisingBusiness structuringFinancialsPitchingSales

BCreative & marketing

Art directionBrandMarketing directionDesign systemsMotionEventsPublic speaking

CDesign & engineering

Adobe suiteUnity 3DC#UnityScriptJavaScriptTypeScriptFull-stackAPIsMobile

DAI & agents

Agentic systemsAutonomous agentsHarnesses & loopsEvals & guardrailsMulti-agentAI-native productsAI coaching
Beyond
Off the clock

Eagle Scout — still wired to be prepared, and it shows in how things get shipped. Hobby chef, home remodeler, and board-game player, active in the local community.

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