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Never seen before live technology in theater – the first AI avatar on stage.

AI avatar on stage
Dadvatar, 2025
AI avatar on stage 2
Dadvatar, 2025
AI avatar on stage 3
Dadvatar, 2025
1 - A human in the loop
An actor in the stage wings with live motion and audio capture, controlled by an Xbox controller
2 - Built on a gaming engine
The digital avatar gets rendered via the Unreal Engine in realtime
3 - Hologram on stage
Projected on stage on multi-plane scrim alongside human actors

A show that changes every night, based on the audience.

Co-Founders the musical, 2025
Co-Founders the musical, 2025
A show that changes every night
Interaction design
1 – User participation
Theatergoers share startup ideas via webform QR code
2 – A.I. augmented
LLM helps users generate business ideas based on their prompts
3 - Showcased on stage
Best ideas translated into musical pitches and performed by live actors

Narratives that spread virally at scale and shape culture.

Viral narratives
Bitcoin Rap Battle
Human AI
Human vs A.I.
Flora
Generative image workflow
1 - Attention to tension
We seek opportunities to build unlikely bridges across passionate support bases
2 - A network of creators
Activists, artists, and engineers lead the zeitgeist with the message
3 - Clips, memes, shares
100's of millions of views across social platforms - complexity delivered in deceptively simple containers

Stories that take root and shift mindsets, institutions, and even elections.

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie
Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee
Co-Founders the Musical
All People Powered Accelerator, 2026
1 - Moving leaders
Inspiring action among policy-makers in culture, commerce, and arts.
2 - Supporting the people
Awarding funding and visibility to overlooked founders via All People Powered accelerator
3 - Data-backed movement
The first short-form meme2020 campaign resulting in statistically significant persuasion of voters at scale

Rhyme Combinator is a new media company for creators and builders in the age of AI.

People first

We began as a weekly freestyle rap session among four friends - getting vulnerable as founders - we believe in the power of personal connections rooted in shared truths and laughter

Multi-modal

We combine images, lights, music, video, and words to bring ideas fully to life and engrain them in long-term memories

AI accelerated

We embrace creative tools to broaden iteration, creation, imagination, and generate moments where we surprise ourselves

Viral

We believe word of mouth is the most trusted and deeply networked message - we take an engineering mindset to creating it

Predicting the future by building it


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