# SCIQI

> SCIQI (pronounced "psyche") is a small creative technology studio working across software, AI, publishing, audio, animation, and games. Senior practitioners working as one team.

We collaborate with clients globally on projects that cross disciplines — a website that ships with its own original score, a book delivered as a publication-grade audiobook, an AI assistant trained on a brand voice we wrote.

## Studio

- [About SCIQI](https://sciqi.com/about): Studio philosophy, principal, and how we work.
- [Adam Elliott Rush](https://sciqi.com/adam-elliott-rush): Creative Technologist at SCIQI; Creative Director and Audio Director at Mjolnir Software, co-owner of PRISMOTIC.
- [All services](https://sciqi.com/services): Overview of the six service verticals.
- [Connect](https://sciqi.com/connect): Start a project, estimate a project against typical industry ranges, or send a message.

## Service verticals

- [Digital](https://sciqi.com/services/digital): Web development, software engineering, SEO, and brand identity.
- [AI](https://sciqi.com/services/ai): AI applications, chatbots, workflow automation, content pipelines, and AI strategy. Work is primarily on Anthropic's Claude.
- [Publishing](https://sciqi.com/services/publishing): Editorial, layout and formatting, cover design, illustration, and audiobook production.
- [Audio](https://sciqi.com/services/audio): Music composition, sound design, voiceover, mixing & mastering, and audio plugins.
- [3D & Animation](https://sciqi.com/services/animation): 3D animation, motion graphics, character design, and VFX. Delivered through partner studio PRISMOTIC.
- [Games](https://sciqi.com/services/games): Game design, narrative design, world building, and tabletop / card games.

## Articles
- [What Original Music for a Game Costs](https://sciqi.com/articles/what-original-game-music-costs): We publish our price ranges for original game music and explain the five factors that decide where a project lands inside them.
- [Finding the First Task You Should Automate](https://sciqi.com/articles/the-first-task-you-should-automate): A four-part screening test for picking your first automation, plus the arithmetic that tells you whether the task is worth paying to automate at all.
- [What a Custom AI Chatbot Costs in 2026](https://sciqi.com/articles/what-a-custom-ai-chatbot-costs): Our published price ranges for AI chatbots and agents, what separates a few-hundred-a-month widget from a $30,000 build, and how to tell which one your business needs.
- [Where AI Fits in a Small Law Firm](https://sciqi.com/articles/where-ai-fits-in-a-small-law-firm): The four places AI earns its keep inside a ten-person firm, plus the arithmetic we use to decide which task is worth automating.
- [What a $2,000-a-Month SEO Retainer Should Buy](https://sciqi.com/articles/what-an-seo-retainer-should-buy): The five things a retainer at the bottom of our range should still cover, and how to tell when you are only paying for a monthly report.
- [WordPress or Next.js: How We Decide](https://sciqi.com/articles/wordpress-or-nextjs-how-we-decide): We build and maintain both stacks, so here are the six questions we actually use to pick one for a project.
- [Website Costs in 2026: The Ranges Nobody Publishes](https://sciqi.com/articles/website-costs-2026): Our four price tiers for websites, the multipliers that move a project inside them, and why page count is the wrong thing to ask about first.
- [What a Book Cover Costs](https://sciqi.com/articles/what-a-book-cover-costs): Our published range for cover design, the three pieces of work behind it, and the two tests every cover has to pass.
- [KDP Book Formatting: What Print-Ready Means](https://sciqi.com/articles/kdp-book-formatting-what-print-ready-means): Print-ready is a specific technical standard, and this is the checklist a file has to pass before KDP will print it.
- [What an Audiobook Costs to Produce](https://sciqi.com/articles/what-an-audiobook-costs-to-produce): Our published range for audiobook production, how it converts to the per-finished-hour figure quoted elsewhere, and the four things that decide where a book lands.
- [Human Flourishing at Civilizational Scale](https://sciqi.com/articles/human-flourishing-at-civilizational-scale): An overview of energy, longevity, governance, and the transition to a civilization designed for human flourishing across millennia.
- [Why AI Amplifies Human Creativity](https://sciqi.com/articles/the-creative-revolution-why-ai-amplifies-rather-than-replaces-human-creativity): AI as a creative multiplier — what GitHub's Copilot study, METR's developer-productivity research, and the cognitive-offloading literature actually show, and how augmented creative teams are pulling ahead.
- [What Play Does to Creative Ability: Five Mechanisms from the Research](https://sciqi.com/articles/unleashing-creativity-through-gaming-the-science-behind-play-and-creative-ability): Cognitive flexibility, divergent thinking, problem-solving, flow, and collaboration — five mechanisms by which games measurably feed creativity, with the research that points to each.
- [Lucid Dreaming as a Creative Practice: MILD, WBTB, and Dream Yoga](https://sciqi.com/articles/creativity-techniques-lucid-dreaming): An introduction to MILD, WBTB, reality testing, and the Buddhist tradition of dream yoga — three induction methods and a wisdom tradition.
- [Flow: Five Conditions for Getting In and Staying In](https://sciqi.com/articles/flow-state-a-guide-to-unlocking-your-creative-potential): How to recognize, enter, and stay in the state of complete absorption Mihály Csíkszentmihályi called flow.
- [All articles](https://sciqi.com/articles): Full archive.

## Contact

- Contact page: https://sciqi.com/connect
- Email: imagine@sciqi.com
- Phone: +1 (616) 502-1411
- Creative Technologist: Adam Elliott Rush
- Website: https://sciqi.com