PIXELFORGE/ARTIFAX · 2025

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A studio for vehicle product experiences, authored from a single brief — and a cabin that responds to who is in it.

CHAPTER 01

Voice, parsed in under a second.

Speech analysis runs on-device. The cabin acts on the dimension a driver is least equipped to manage themselves — their own state.

The system listens for paralinguistic features — pace, pitch contour, breathiness — not the words. Nothing leaves the car.

The cabin never tells you how you feel. It offers a hypothesis ("Feeling stressed.") and proposes a response you can accept, customize, or dismiss with one word.

CHAPTER 02

Three states. One room.

Lighting, music and climate move together, never individually. You feel a room turn — not three sliders.

Calm state
CALM · Soft Cyan
Neutral state
NEUTRAL · Warm White
Stressed state
STRESSED · Warm Amber

Each state is a small composition — a color temperature, a track, a fan speed, a sentence of explanation. We designed them like rooms in a hotel, not like presets in an app.

CHAPTER 03

Routes that read the room.

The same state vector reaches navigation. A stressed driver gets a longer, calmer route by default. An alternative is always one tap away.

Route preview — adaptive routing

A good route card is a good concierge: state the choice clearly, offer a single alternative, name the trade-off in plain English. Anything more is a tax on a driver already deciding twenty things per minute.

BY THE NUMBERS

A brief in, a cabin out, — in ninety seconds.

~90s
BRIEF → CABIN
12/wk
STATES COMPOSED
2
PILOT VEHICLE PROGRAMS
CHAPTER 04

The studio behind the cabin.

One editor pane. One live cabin preview. The brief is the design file.

Every sentence in the brief is parsed into a constraint. "The car is a daily commuter for an introvert" is a different sentence than "the car is a Friday weekend toy" — the model composes the cabin against those constraints.

Tokens, not visuals, are the substrate. The studio cannot draw a screen that does not exist in the production component system. Anything you generate is, by construction, shippable.

CHAPTER 05

The full pipeline.

Brief → stage extraction → scene composition → function mix → scenegraph → shipped HMI. One pass, knowledge from the Master Library threaded through every step.

Pixelforge full pipeline and knowledge usage — stage-by-stage architecture diagram

Five stages, each with its own canvas. Knowledge from the Master Library flows downward into every stage; artefacts flow back up for review. Nothing escapes the loop — and nothing in the loop is invented from scratch.

ROLE
PRODUCT LEAD
YEAR
2025
TEAM
SOLO · 4 ENGINEERS
DOMAIN
AUTOMOTIVE · AGENTIC
STATUS
PROTOTYPE · ACTIVE

For most of automotive history the cabin has assumed a single, average driver. The interesting question is not how to make the cabin smarter — it is how to make it humble enough to keep asking who, exactly, is in it.