About
A company, a studio, and
the things it makes.
Intrigue MMC LLC is the company. Intriguing Insight is the studio, and it's where the apps and the writing get made. BabyBlocks, Foundry, and ScreenForge all come out of there. No outside money, no board to please, no roadmap stuffed with features that never ship.
How it fits together
The structure, plainly.
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Intrigue MMC LLC
The company itself. An Illinois LLC, set up in 2024. It owns the work, signs the contracts, and files the taxes. You'll basically never deal with it directly, and that's fine. It's the part that lets everything else stay simple.
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Intriguing Insight
The studio, and the part you'll actually see. It's software-first: three apps and one book so far. The book, Think Sharper with AI, is about getting real work out of AI tools. Everything has its home at intriguinginsight.com.
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The apps
BabyBlocks, Foundry, and ScreenForge. Each one gets its own name, its own site, and its own audience, so you can judge it on its own merits. Each carries a small mark in the footer that points back here, in case you want to know who's behind it.
The goal
Things worth keeping.
One question gets asked about everything here: a year from now, will the person who paid for it still be glad they did? If the answer isn't yes, it doesn't go out the door.
The pace
Slow on purpose.
The work runs in years, not sprints, and skips whatever's trending this month. The apps share the same tools and the same standards because they come from the same place. The rest of the thinking is on the manifesto page.
The work
Three areas of focus.
Writing
Books and guides that actually teach you something and don't waste your time getting there.
Apps
Tools that do one job, do it well, stay out of your way, and never nag you to upgrade.
AI, taught plainly
How to get good, repeatable answers out of AI tools, minus the hype and the jargon.
Founder
Tim Blackburn.
Intrigue MMC LLC was founded by Tim Blackburn, who writes and builds across everything here. One company, one studio, no investors to answer to. That setup is the whole point.
Pretty much everything here started as a real problem with no decent fix on the market. It all gets used in daily life before it goes out. If it isn't good enough to run a life on, it doesn't ship.
More about the founder →Company
The formal bits.
- Legal name
- Intrigue MMC LLC
- Structure
- Single-member Limited Liability Company
- Jurisdiction
- State of Illinois, USA
- Founded
- 2024
- Primary domain
- intriguemmc.com
- Contact
- contact@intriguemmc.com
- Press
- press@intriguemmc.com