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Inksquad

Tattoo studio and ideas

2024 - now · CTO, product and platform architecture

You shape a tattoo idea in private, then hand it to an artist. On the iPad, that artist turns it into a stencil, matches it to real inks, and runs the session with gloves on.

Inksquad is two products, and I am the CTO. Someone with a tattoo in their head uses People. The artist in the session uses Artist. They share a project, so the idea does not have to come back as a folder of screenshots.

web.inksquad.com is where the idea gets specific. You write what you want, name the style, the placement, and the size, and add references you actually like. Ink AI can draw a visual if that helps you see it. When the project is ready, you share it with an artist. It stops there. Booking is someone else’s job. The site is public, and it is still being built in the open.

artist.inksquad.com is the iPad app, published by Inksquad Srl, $9.99 plus credits. You import a sketch from Procreate, Photoshop, or Illustrator and turn it into a stencil you can still edit. You drop markers on the picture, and the app answers with bottles from the catalog: more than four hundred, including Intenze, Fusion, World Famous, Eternal Ink, and sets that are legal in the EU. Matrix and Color Wheel are for mixing a palette at the bench. In a live session the app takes voice, because gloves and a glass screen do not get along, and it keeps working when the shop wifi does not.

AI can draft a concept or clean a reference. The session still belongs to the artist.

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