477 Studio

477 is an AI studio based in Sydney. We help companies and their teams become AI-native, and build and run AI solutions to meet their business needs.

What we do

• AI consultancy — trusted advisors for your product and engineering organisation, any question on your AI journey, big or small.
• AI-native transformation and training — we map where you are, train the team, and plan the change, tech and non-tech alike.
• Development and Forward Deployed Engineers (FDE) — we help you build AI products and internal tools, to world-class engineering standards. As forward deployed engineers, we embed with your team and build from the inside.
• Agents and automation — automation built as managed agents. We host them for you, and you work with each agent like a virtual employee for specific tasks. You never take on the maintenance: we own it, monitor it, and fix it when it breaks.

How we work

Three ways: as consultants (we run diagnostics first, then start with a small project for the fastest time to value), as forward-deployed engineers embedded within your team, or running managed agents for you.

Founders

Sam Zheng and Han Xu — serial AI founders with decades of experience building AI for complex business problems.

Projects

Hobby and open-source projects we maintain: AI, Look!, Claude Gym, PlayGraph AI, and Ellie's Story, a Chinese kids podcast.

Case studies

Read our case studies on the classic site: Clare, an AI coworker drafting client emails for a Sydney accounting firm; an AI-native diagnostic for a cybersecurity consultancy; and our playbook for making a ~50-engineer team AI-native across the SDLC.

To get in touch, visit the Mail Terminal in our pixel-art office, or use the contact form on the classic site.