AboutLos Angeles
A small studiomaking AIdo something.
ai686 is one person in Los Angeles with a short list of ideas and a machine that runs them. We build things for small businesses and for people: the kind of thing you'd actually buy once, rather than subscribe to forever and forget about.
01 What we believe
Four rules we wrote down and stuck to.
Show the work before the invoice
Every live service here ends with something you can look at or listen to before money changes hands. A song, a jingle pack, a restored photo, a product shoot: you see your own preview first.
Say what isn't ready
Two of the six things on this site say "coming soon", and they mean it. We'd rather have one page that says "not yet" than one that quietly takes deposits.
AI is a tool, not the pitch
Nobody wants AI. They want a song that makes their mum cry, a photo that isn't torn, a phone that gets answered. The model is just how we get there.
Small enough to answer
There's no ticket queue and no chatbot standing between you and a person. You email, a person reads it, a person writes back.
02 The honest version
Where we actually are.
Four services are live and taking orders. Each gives you a free preview first, and you only pay if you want the full result. Two more are real projects still being built, and we'd rather say “not yet” than sell them early.
340+ happy customers since January 2026. We never asked any of them for a review, so this site went a long time with none. Now there's a page to leave one. Nothing gets shown without permission, and we won't invent star ratings or “trusted by” logos to fill the gap.
Got something in mind?
If it's small, weird and useful, it's probably the sort of thing we like. Email support@ai686.tech or call (818) 747-0828.