◆ AscenHD · Performance & growth
Perform at a higher level.
AscenHD drives performance and growth, in work and in life. We build the products, platforms, and strategy that get you there. The tools are whatever works best, AI-native today. The proof is everything we’ve built.
01 The difference
Anyone can use AI. We build the systems that turn it into performance.
Most teams get a one-time boost from AI: a faster draft, a quicker afternoon. The edge is in the systems you build around it. Agent frameworks, reusable Skills, the orchestration and data layers underneath. That is what we build, and we keep building as the technology evolves. We run our own ventures on it, so the proof exists before you hire us.
02 Capabilities
The capabilities that raise performance, and the proof they run on.
Agentic engineering
We design and ship production systems built on agent frameworks, not demos that stall after the pitch.
02Reusable AI Skills & commands
We turn repeatable expert work into deployable agent capability. Encode it once, run it forever.
03Context & orchestration engineering
The discipline that makes agent-built code reliable instead of chaotic.
04Multimodal AI integration
The right model wired to the right job across a single pipeline. Model-agnostic, outcome-driven.
05Compliance-first AI product strategy
AI product thinking for regulated environments, with the controls that make it lawful.
06AI fluency & enablement
We build it, and we can teach your team to operate it.
03 The face of the company
Led by Brian Kolowitz, D.Sc.
AscenHD is founded and led by Brian Kolowitz. He has spent 8+ years on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon, holds a D.Sc. in Information Systems, and built and taught an AI Fluency framework that moves teams from AI curiosity to AI capability.
That academic depth de-risks frontier work: we live at the edge of what these tools can do and know where they break.
50 +
Products shipped over 20 years
8 + yrs
Carnegie Mellon faculty
30 +
Capstone projects advised across industries
D.Sc.
Information Systems doctorate
04 The ecosystem
Real. Shipped. Still shipping.
50+ products over two decades. Here is a slice that is live and running right now, across the company and its brands.
The full ecosystem →Mise
Mise en place, for how you eat: plain-language meal planning with real math behind the targets and a printable week of real food.
1Breath
A breathwork app architected around seven designed state-transition “Arcs,” not a flat library of techniques.
Get1Min
A micro-workout app built on one-minute training intervals, surfaced through Dynamic Island and Live Activity.
AI Daylee
A daily AI brief that rewrites the news across nine distinct reporter voices.
GolferHD Tools
A suite of free, single-purpose golf tools: practice timer, ball-flight visualizer, a data-science course, and a reveal tool.
Asset Vault
A multi-brand digital asset management platform with Claude Vision auto-tagging and a documented two-tier API.
Forge
A multi-brand social content engine that generates carousels and posts across brands and publishes to Buffer.
Thrive
A performance and growth journal: a guided daily practice in print, built to move you up and to the right. Launching soon.
Muni World Championship
“The Public's Major,” a public-course championship at North Park (Pittsburgh), Summer 2026.
Loop Golf
A golf lifestyle brand and movement built on “For those that show up.” Apparel, ethos, and a live shop.
50+ and
counting.
Every product, platform, and venture in one list.
◆ On the App Store
Shipped, and on your phone today.
Two consumer apps, live in the App Store, built end to end.
05 What we do
Three ways to work with us.
Build & Ship
We build and ship the products, platforms, and systems that move your performance, the same way we build our own ventures. From an App Store app to the orchestration layer that runs it. AI-native today, by whatever works tomorrow.
1Breath & Get1Min on the App Store · Asset Vault · Forge · self-hosted Git & agent orchestration
02High-Stakes Strategy
Build-ready product strategy for regulated and high-stakes environments, the hardest kind to fake. Traceable, compliant, and ready to build, not a deck that dies in a drawer.
Clinical AI product strategy · aesthetics & wellness operations
03Fluency & Enablement
Move your team from curious to capable. We build the frameworks and reusable Skills, then teach your people to operate them, using the AI Fluency framework we built and teach at Carnegie Mellon.
Agentic engineering · reusable Skills · the CMU AI Fluency framework
06 How we work
The Build Loop
Working software you own, on a timeline that moves.
Map
We get clear on the outcome, the constraints, and the fastest real path to it. Direction before code.
Build & Ship
We build it AI-native and put it in front of real users in weeks. Working software, not slide decks.
Operate or hand off
We run it and improve it so the value compounds, or we document it and hand you the keys. Your call. You own everything.
The longer story
Performing at a higher level is one discipline, whether the arena is your business or your life. In work, we ship production platforms, consumer products, and regulated-grade strategy, and run our own ventures on them. In life, that same drive becomes breathwork and fitness apps on the App Store, golf performance tools, and Thrive, the growth journal we are launching. One belief underneath both: better is always possible, and the proof is everything we’ve built.
Performing at a higher level isn't a finish line. It's a practice of trying things, learning, and adjusting. Some experiments pay off and some don't, and you come out of all of them knowing more than you did. That is what compounds.
Tell us where you want to perform higher.
We build the proof. You’ll get a clear next step, fast.