Human-first AI · Consulting and development
Put AI to work in your business, from the first audit to the custom build
AONE Creative is an AI consulting company with a creative team behind it. We find where AI pays off, connect it to the tools you already use, and build the agents and platforms that need custom work, with the team that has shipped studio releases, Webby-winning series and national campaigns since 2007.
- AI Readiness Audits
- AI integration and automation
- Custom AI agents
- AI platform development
- AI content production
- Six Webby Awards
- Founder-led since 2007
People first
We are engineers, designers, storytellers and promoters. For more than twenty years we have put people on screens, stages and phones around the world, and we bring the same care to the AI we build for you. AI makes the work faster. It never replaces the people in the room.
- 6Webby Awards
- 2007Founded
- 108K+Downloads of a game we built
AI services
AI in skilled hands
Most teams know AI could save them hours but not where to start. We map the work, rank what to automate first and build it into the tools you already use. People keep the strategy, the creative calls and the sign-off, the same way we run our own work.
Audit.
We map your workflows and tools, rank the automations worth doing first and hand you a written plan: the AI Readiness Audit.Build.
Integrations and automations and custom AI agents that fit the tools your team already uses.Grow.
AI-powered platforms and AI content production, built and supported by the same team.
AI Readiness Audit
Two ways to start
Snapshot is $1,500 for small businesses: under 25 people, up to three workflows, a written plan and a 45-minute walkthrough. Blueprint is $4,500 for mid-size teams: up to five interviews and eight workflows, plus a tools, data and risk review and a 90-day roadmap. If you sign a build with us within 60 days, the full fee is credited toward it.
- Snapshot$1,500
- Blueprint$4,500
What we do
Six ways we help
Consulting across every service, whether we deliver the work or your team does.
AI Services
Readiness audits, integrations, custom agents and AI-powered platforms, set up around the people who use them.Explore
Campaign Digital
Get-out-the-vote, advocacy and candidate campaigns, including the Webby-winning Be Woke.Vote.Explore
Web Platforms and Care
Fully custom sites, WordPress, Shopify and Wix builds, plus the hosting, security and care to keep them running.Explore
Media Buying
Ad buys and delivery across digital, social, cable TV and radio, with relationships at the major cable networks and iHeartRadio.Explore
Branded Games
Branded mobile games for iOS and Android, plus Roblox experiences, Fortnite islands and Minecraft worlds that give fans something to play.Explore
Entertainment Marketing and Events
Release campaigns for films and series, plus concerts, tours, screenings and festivals, produced and marketed end to end.Explore
Selected work
Launches we have carried
The team that builds your AI carried these launches: fixed release dates, national audiences and platforms that had to hold on day one.
Branded games
Games your audience will actually play
Mobile games for iOS and Android, plus Roblox experiences, Fortnite islands and Minecraft worlds, planned with the launch so the game, the trailer drop and the paid media all point at the same date.
Fear: The Game
A web and mobile game we built for the 2023 theatrical release of Fear: a deliberate throwback to 8-bit graphics, with a nod to Flappy Bird.
- 87KApprox. players sent to the film’s website
- Nearly allOf the people who played went on to the site
- 2023Theatrical release
- iOS and AndroidBranded mobile gamesStandalone iOS, Android and web games, like the Fear game.Learn more
- RobloxRoblox experiencesBranded worlds, mini-games and immersive trailers built for Roblox players.Learn more
- FortniteFortnite islandsCustom islands built in Unreal Editor for Fortnite, within Epic’s rules for brand content.Learn more
- MinecraftMinecraft worldsCustom worlds, maps and servers, built within Mojang’s brand and EULA rules.Learn more
Where we started
From the stage to the screen
AONE started in live music. Darrick founded AONE Management in 2000 while touring as Kool Keith’s DJ, and went on to book talent including Naughty by Nature, KRS-One, Lil Wayne and Ciara, with shows in Australia, Asia, Europe and North America.
These are the shows and tours we booked, organized or marketed, and at the Kool Keith dates Darrick was often on stage as DJ or hype man. Selling out a date that won’t move is still how we run every launch, AI rollouts included.
Event productionThe tours and shows
- 2003Kool KeithSydney, Adelaide, Canberra and Melbourne
- 2003Ice-T, SMG TourAmsterdam
- 2004DJ Vadim vs. Kool KeithClub Soda, Montreal
- 2005Naughty by NatureAustralia, Japan, Taiwan and Thailand
- 2005Kool Keith and Kutmasta KurtDoornroosje, Nijmegen
- 2006Kool KeithJazz Cafe, London
- 2007Ciara with SammieSpring Break Fest, Greenville, South Carolina
- 2010S.O.S. Band and Ready for the WorldKool Haus, Toronto
Kim KardashianThe Messy Truth, 2018 
Peter GreeneKing of Hollywood, 2006 
Henry Louis Gates Jr.Black History in Two Minutes (or so), 2019 
King BachFear, 2023 
Pharoahe MonchBarcelona, 2007 
CiaraSpring Break Fest, 2007
Talent from our campaigns, films and tours.
Founder-led
You work with the people who do the work
Darrick Angelone started out on tour as Kool Keith’s DJ, built a talent booking company and founded AONE in 2007. He still leads strategy on every engagement, AI builds included, and the team that pitches the idea is the team that builds and runs it.
Deadlines that don’t move.
Release dates, show dates and election days are fixed. Our process is built around the launch window.
Creative and engineering in one team.
Story, design and code come from the same people. No handoff between an agency and a dev shop.
We run what we build.
Nearly 20 years of web development and self-managed infrastructure means your platform has an owner after launch.
Direct or white-label.
Brands hire us directly, and agencies, producers and consultants hire us to work under their name.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What does AONE Creative do?
AONE Creative is an AI consulting and development agency with a creative team behind it. We find where AI pays off with an AI Readiness Audit, then build the integrations, custom agents and AI platforms that need custom work. Since 2007 the same team has launched films, campaigns, events and brands, and built the web platforms behind them.
How do you use AI?
As a tool in our team’s hands. It speeds up research, versioning, automation and reporting, while people set the strategy, make the creative calls and approve what goes out.
Do you work with clients nationwide?
Yes. We work remote-first with clients across the US.
How do AI projects start?
Most start with the AI Readiness Audit. Snapshot is $1,500 for small businesses: under 25 people, up to three workflows, a written plan and a 45-minute walkthrough. Blueprint is $4,500 for mid-size teams: up to five interviews and eight workflows, plus a tools, data and risk review and a 90-day roadmap. If you sign a build with us within 60 days, the full fee is credited toward it. If you already know what you need, we scope it on a strategy call.
Can you build a custom AI agent for my business?
Yes. We build agents that work on your website, phone line, Slack, Microsoft Teams or SMS. They answer from content you approve, qualify leads, book meetings on your calendar and log each conversation to your CRM, and they hand off to a person when they are unsure.
Will AI replace my team?
No. We set AI up to take repetitive work like research, versioning, automation and reporting off your team’s plate. Your people keep the strategy, the creative calls and the final sign-off, the same way we run our own work.
Do you produce events?
Yes. We produce and market events end to end, from concerts, tours and exhibits to film screenings and music and film festivals, and we book talent. Event production and marketing.
Do you offer consulting?
Yes, across every service we offer, from campaigns and events to platforms and AI, whether we deliver the work or your team does.
Can agencies hire you white-label?
Yes. Agencies, producers and consultants hire us to plan, build and run campaigns under their own name, as we did for Hyper Engine.
Who will I work with?
Founder Darrick Angelone leads strategy on every engagement.
Start a conversation
Have a workflow to fix, or a launch, campaign or event coming up?
Tell us what you are working on. You will talk to Darrick, not a sales team.