Introducing Craft The Future

by | Jan 14, 2025 | Blog, Impact, Other News, Uncategorized

Craft The Future is composed of X, Y, and Z – three generations of creatives that naturally found each other through their passion for technology. The three individuals – Carl, Tiara, and Contessa – are working together to create a community and be a resource for NoCode creatives, coining the tagline “where NoCode creatives thrive” for their startup. A NoCode creative is an individual who pursues modern technology and uses as little code as possible. 

Meet the Founders: Carl and Tiara

“The conversation is no longer even just a matter of one side of technology. It’s how AI empowers all of technology.” 

Carl, the CEO & Leader in AI-Driven NoCode Solutions, is a creative writer and storyteller who used those skills to test ChatGPT when it first launched. He jumped onto the platform, asking ChatGPT to do things such as combining different pop culture stories that everyone knows and loves to see what direction and narrative the platform would provide as an output. He noted that being able to play around with the technology helped expand his development brain. 

“I didn’t understand as an artist what other artists were afraid of when you’re the one in the controller seat.” 

Tiara, the Lead Digital Curator who goes by the artist name T9LET, saw an opportunity for AI to be an assistant to her craft. While some artists were afraid to touch AI and saw it as a threat to replace them, she explored the endless possibilities, stating that she knew “AI can’t be me.” 
T9LET seamlessly integrates her art with technology, which has led her work to land in local projects such as VISIT Milwaukee’s NFT campaign with Summerfest and Summerfest Tech, in partnership with Vennity. “Authenticated Experiences,” or AX, is aimed at attracting new visitors to explore Milwaukee. T9LET was commissioned to create a collection of work representing five different music genres, alongside other NFT collectibles that are available. Each art piece T9LET created was AI–assisted. 

NFT artwork by T9LET. 

The Vision for Craft The Future

 In the ever-evolving world of technology and AI, Craft The Future stands as a beacon for NoCode creatives, embracing the power of technology to share it with the community. Carl and T9LET, alumni of the FOR-M Startup Incubator, have established three foundational pillars for their startup: accessibility, innovation, and sustainability. The ultimate goal for Craft The Future is to be a database and marketplace of NoCode tools, providing a place for individuals to come and get their creative projects off the ground. 

In March of this year, Craft The Future created Text-To-Logo – a tool that creates logos for others to use for their branding. Carl and T9LET facilitated workshops hosted by the Milwaukee Artist Resource Network (MARN), which focused on branding in the age of AI using the Text-To-Logo technology. 

Text-To-Logo was built using Python and is API-driven. It runs on a flask tailwind CSS application, uses DALL·E 3, and has a custom prompt on the backend that drives logo generation at just 6 cents per generation. The prompting uses a “yes, and” approach, providing mad lib-style questions and space for users to describe the output. An individual who used their technology created a fishing ad that ultimately ended up in a book of his. 

As Craft The Future continues to evolve, they see an opportunity in the era of email marketing. The team is working on creating an AI-generated newsletter and are currently looking for beta testers to break it and tell them how to revamp it. The registration to sign up as a beta tester is live. 

Carl expressed his excitement and fear of how much AI has evolved, noting how it has personality, humor, accents, and can even be interrupted. He expressed how powerful AI open-source technology is, stating that it prevails and wins, that everyone as a human deserves the right to AI, and that if we have such great capabilities at the commercial level, there’s great potential in what we can have access to. 

As the world of AI and technology continues to grow, T9LET encourages people to keep building and creating, expressing that failure is a great sign. But most importantly, she says to exercise integrity when using and creating this technology and to remember that this technology is used to connect back with one another.