A holding company for AI-infused entertainment

We build the tools, then the places.

Imagination Industries is an independent studio and holding company for a family of AI-infused, entertainment-focused products — built on our own open, self-hosted infrastructure and designed to last.

What we build

A growing family of products for players, makers, and storytellers — each one a real thing people use, with AI woven in where it earns its place, not bolted on for show.

Mike's DM ToolsBeta
Tabletop · game masters

Web tools for the gaps the big virtual tabletops forgot — persistent campaign state and clean, shareable artifacts your players can open without an account.

mikesdmtools.com ↗
CampaignScribeIn development
Audio · transcription & recap

Drop in your game-session audio; get back a speaker-labeled transcript and an AI-written recap of who said and did what — all processed privately on your own machine.

Coming soon
Gilded GriffinLive
Platform · living campaign

A self-hosted home for a tabletop campaign — running its economy, characters, and shop as one owned system of record instead of a pile of spreadsheets.

Private beta

// Every product runs on our own self-hosted AI platform — multi-model routing, private infrastructure, and the governance to keep it safe and affordable.

How we build

A few convictions shape everything here — the same ones whether we're shipping a game tool or the infrastructure beneath it.

01

Self-hosted & self-owned

We run our own infrastructure. No platform can revoke, meter, or discontinue what our families and players depend on.

02

Open and portable

Open-source and easily-moved components by default — nothing that locks us, or the people who use our tools, into a single vendor.

03

AI where it earns its place

AI is woven in where it genuinely helps, kept out of the parts that must be exact, and governed so it stays safe and predictable.

04

Built to last

Small, deliberate, and independent — built for durability and craft over growth-at-all-costs.

About

Imagination Industries began as a simple idea: that a small, independent studio could build genuinely good, AI-infused entertainment products — and run them on infrastructure it fully owns.

It's a holding company in the honest sense. Underneath the products sits one shared platform: a self-hosted fleet, multi-model AI routing, and an approach to governance and cost that lets a tiny team operate like a much larger one. That platform is the quiet advantage behind every product above.

We build the tools first — the practical things people reach for — and then the places those tools make possible. We're early, we're deliberate, and we're building things we intend to keep.

Get in touch

Building something in this space? Let's talk.

Partnerships, product questions, or just a hello — we're always glad to hear from fellow builders, players, and makers.

Imagination Industries LLC Winston-Salem, North Carolina · Est. 2025