anomalie.space

anomalie.space is the studio where Mike held a "Founder in residence" role between June and August 2025, a three-month stint during the Solo Founder Era. The LinkedIn description states the role as "Exploring and building different AI agents (voice, image, videos)."

The Residency

Founder in residence programs typically give an operator several months inside a studio to incubate a project, with some mix of funding, compute, and mentorship in exchange for equity or first-look rights. The three-month duration is consistent with a short exploratory cohort rather than a multi-year partnership.

The residency overlapped the middle of the Wayzze founding period. Wayzze ran February to July 2025; anomalie.space ran June to August 2025. For two months, both commitments ran in parallel. The residency ended the same month Wayzze ended, suggesting a compressed transition away from both.

Product Output

The described scope — voice, image, and video AI agents — matches the product mix that emerged from this period:

• Retro AI (photo transformation using Gemini) fits the image track
• SageVox (AI audiobooks with voice interaction, January 2026) fits the voice track

The voice-image-video formulation in the job description reads as a thesis statement for the residency's focus area rather than a list of completed deliverables. Later solo products that match the thesis (SageVox most directly) may have been seeded during the residency and continued independently afterward.

Fit in the Founder Arc

The anomalie.space engagement is the only studio affiliation in Mike's record. Every other founder-era product is solo. The residency sits between fully independent work before and after, and reads as a deliberate move to get short-term structure and compute rather than a permanent team commitment.