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Orange County, CA

Frances
builds things.

Apps. Newsletters. AI workflows.
For people she actually knows.

Launched a forever google-able product, built and sold a venture-backed company. Now building small, specific things for OC parents, pole dancers, and founders who want to move faster. Half marketing, half AI brained, forever a founder.

📸 KikoApp · iOS Beta 🤖 FrankieBot · Telegram Live 💃🏾 FlowVaultApp · iOS In the oven ✉️ Shitty Mom GuideNewsletter · OC Live 🥾 AI TrailmatesWeb · Cohort Beta

What's baking.

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water bottle
botella
de agua
bo-TEH-yah deh AH-wah
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Water bottles help keep you healthy and strong! 💧
📷 Again!
App · iOS
Kiko
Beta
Point your camera at anything. Learn it in 8 languages.

Your kid learns the word in 8 languages — pronunciation, a sentence, a fun fact. Started because my daughter kept asking me words in Spanish and I kept getting them wrong.

Coming soon on App Store →
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Frankie
● OC weekend planner
what's good this weekend?
Here's what's actually worth going to 👇
🎪 OC Night Market · Costa Mesa
Sat · Free · Kids welcome
🌸 Pageant of the Masters · Laguna
Every night · Worth it
Want kid-friendly only? 🧒
Bot · Telegram
Frankie
Live
Tells OC families exactly what to do this weekend.

Real events, real places, no listicles. Built because "fun things to do in OC" Google results are genuinely terrible.

Meet Frankie →
FlowVaultFT
Your library
Find moves, practice smarter
Moves (8)
Routines (4)
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Open leg spin
MidSpin
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Reverse Ayesha
Adv
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Inside leg hang
MidHang
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Ayesha
Adv
Butterfly
Beg
Moves
Routines
Practice
Profile
App · iOS
FlowVault
In the oven
Pole dance training tracker. Serious tools for serious athletes.

Training tracker built for pole dancers. Log combos, track progress, film your practice. Because pole is a serious sport and it deserves serious tools — not a notes app.

flowvault.app →
March 12, 2026  |  Read online
📅 Stuff to do: March 14–15
North-ish OC
Saturday
🌸Cherry Blossom / Anime Days | Anaheim
🎵Live Music AND market | Anaheim
🛒Old Towne Vintage Market | Orange
🥚Easter Eggstravaganza | Orange
Central-ish OC
Saturday
🎨Doodle POP at Segerstrom | Costa Mesa
🎪Overland Expo SoCal | Costa Mesa
🔭Planetarium Open House | Costa Mesa
Newsletter · OC
Shitty Mom Guide
Live
OC's most honest parenting newsletter · 3,500 subscribers

Weekend events, local recs, and the takes other parenting media are too scared to publish. 3,500 OC parents read it every week.

shittymomguide.com →
# cohort-3 · spring
3 trailmates · week 2 of 4
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Trail Guide
Week 2 challenge: ship a working agent. Post when you're stuck.
M
Maya
just deployed mine — anyone test?
J
Jordan
on it 🔗
A
Alex
how'd you handle rate limits??
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🙌 2
Web · Cohort
AI Trailmates
Beta
The best way to learn AI is alongside other people learning it.

Hand-matched trios. 4-week cohorts. You learn AI by building alongside two other builders — not in a 200-person Zoom.

aitrailmates.com →

Work with me

I build custom AI systems for small businesses and solo founders — through a founder's lens.

Most AI consulting is slideware. I build the actual thing. I work with founders and small teams drowning in manual ops — Google Sheets that should be databases, transcripts no one reviews, content that ships once instead of ten times. The difference is I've been a founder. I know how businesses actually run, so the systems I build fit how you actually work — not how a consultant imagines you do.

Client engagement · ongoing
Sanhu House
Premium postpartum care agency · Los Angeles
  • Migrated the whole company off Google Drives + Sheets onto a unified Monday.com ops system — 84+ clients, 32+ doulas, 82+ records of service into one working CRM
  • Custom dashboards + automations so the team sees real-time status without having to ask
  • Transcript automation: meeting recording → extracted decisions, action items, project status → written to the database
  • Content amplification skill: one source piece → full multi-channel content suite
  • Hermes agent surfaces top 3 daily tasks + drafts runbook prompts
My own ventures · live in production
Frankie
SMS + Telegram weekend planning agent · 2,000+ users

Production AI agent serving thousands across SMS and Telegram. Recommends from a curated database of 300+ vetted venues, runs live web search for pricing and hours, handles real conversation in plain text. Built solo, runs solo, two years in production.

My own ops stack
Hermes — multi-agent fleet
4 autonomous agents on a DigitalOcean droplet

Four agents each owning a distinct domain: competitive intelligence, daily briefings, task routing, personal scheduling. Containerized, model-routed (Sonnet for judgment, Haiku for triage), role-based access, OAuth per agent. Live and running daily — the reason I can run five ventures as a solo founder.

Internal · measurable outcome
Content pipeline
~3 hours/day → ~30 minutes/day

Idea → drafted in four brand voices in parallel → Remotion-rendered carousels and videos in code (no Canva) → Slack approval flow → scheduled posts. The 30 minutes is taste. Everything else is automated.

I don't just build AI systems. I ship them into production under real constraints — and they stay running.

Who this is for: Founders running real businesses who know AI should be doing more of their work, but don't have the time — or the in-house technical lead — to figure out what.

Tell me what's eating your time →

About

A studio with a simple filter:
would I actually use it?

Every product comes from a real need. Shitty Mom Guide came from being an OC parent who wanted all weekend events straight to her inbox. Frankie came from wanting something to actually plan the weekend. FlowVault came from being a pole dancer who needed better tools. Kiko came from a daughter always asking words in Spanish. AI-native. OC-based. 4eva a builder. 🌴

Frances Tang
5 products in the batch
3,500 newsletter subscribers
2016 building since
OC Orange County, CA
The baker
Frances Tang
Founder · Builder · Unapologetic Multi-hyphenate
I invented and launched the cum sponge (Google it if you dare), built and sold a venture-backed company, and have been building things on and off the internet for over a decade. Right now that's a parenting newsletter, a couple of apps, and AI workflow consulting for brands that want to move faster. Half marketing, half AI-brained. You can find me on Instagram and LinkedIn — or low-key awkwardly pole dancing in my garage. 🍊