AI development
Claude Code + OpenAI Codex
AI-assisted implementation and iteration, guided by hands-on product direction and validation.
Independent product & research studio
Applied AI.
Grounded in
real life.
Software for connected homes, property operations, fitness, and the next generation of physical assistance.
Oblique Research · San Marino, California
Inside the labSan Marino, California
My home is the laboratory.One real environment. A connected body of work.AI-generated studio illustration
Built across software and the physical world
Technology in the studioConnected home
Home Assistant
The integration layer connecting devices and automations across the home and property workflows.
Application development
Native apps + the web
Native SwiftUI interfaces alongside web dashboards, device APIs, and camera streaming.
Spatial computing
Spaces, scenes and context
Explore the relationship between camera evidence, physical layouts, and interactive environments.
App endpoints
Interfaces across the portfolio.
- Web / desktop
- Dashboards & spatial prototypes
- iPhone
- Native SwiftUI companion
- iPad
- Tablet review surfaces
- Apple TV
- Shared-room tvOS interface
- Apple Vision Pro
- Spatial web & review experiments
- Reachy Mini
- Camera & expressive interaction
Home integrations include Lutron RadioRA 3 lighting and Ubiquiti / UniFi cameras and networking. Fitness telemetry and larger robot integrations are development targets, with status shown below.
Selected work
Deployed systems, product concepts & research01
Property intelligence
SessionLens
Live in deploymentA live property-host dashboard that brings reservations, camera evidence, and device state into one shared view. Built and used in the everyday work of managing a real property.
Inside SessionLens
Current work
Booking-aware views, camera and motion context, gate observations, and clear handling of uncertainty. Native mobile and television interfaces complement the web work.
02
Home automation
ClawDomo
In developmentA conversational interface for the connected home. ClawDomo brings device context and everyday routines into a single place to ask for help.
What’s being explored
Current work
Home-wide context, daily routines, lighting, audio, energy and security. Home Assistant provides the device integration layer.
03
Fitness & connected training
SessionLens Fitness
Concept prototypeA companion for the whole indoor-cycling session: the workout, the warm-up, the cool-down, and the context in between. Exploring how camera review and trainer data can make that record more useful.
What’s being explored
Product direction
Start pedaling. Capture warm-up and cool-down work, review form, and bring workout data, hydration cues and breaks into one record. The trainer-connected loop is still in development.
04
Embodied interfaces
Reggie
In deploymentMeet Reggie, our Reachy Mini and the first embodied AI deployed in the lab. A camera, a voice, and an expressive physical presence connecting SessionLens to the room around it.
What Reggie brings to the lab
Current work
Visitor review, robot-camera feeds, and iterative interaction experiments. SessionLens connects what the robot sees with the context of the session.
05
Host operations
Swimply Pro
ConceptAn operations concept for independent property hosts: booking calendars, preparation, session oversight, and turnover. It grows from the hosting workflow behind SessionLens.
What’s being explored
Starting point
An independent project concept for recurring host workflows. Swimply Pro is a working name, with no affiliation with Swimply implied.
06
Physical assistance
Humanoids, service robots & simulation
SDK development & simulationThe next step is physical help: moving through a home, carrying the essentials, and handling small hospitality tasks with property and session context.
While we wait for our hardware preorders, we’re working with available SDKs and running experiments in simulation. Our backyard is becoming a shared test environment for software, spatial understanding, and future robots.
Now Reggie is deployed. SDK and simulation work prepares the next experiments.
Next Bring tasks from the simulated environment onto arriving hardware, then test completion and recovery in the real space.
Robots in the lab & on the way
Deployment, preorders & researchReggie is already part of the lab. The next platforms expand the work into mobility, manipulation, and everyday physical assistance.
Reggie / Reachy Mini
In deploymentOur first embodied AI: perception and expressive interaction
Meet Reggie ↑
1X NEO
PreorderedHome humanoid platform
Platform details ↗
Weave Isaac 1
PreorderedMobile home-assistance platform
Platform details ↗
Menlo Asimov 2
In discussionHumanoid research direction
Platform details ↗
Nori
OrderedBimanual service experiments
Platform details ↗Duckling
Duckling
PreorderedThe next small robot joining the lab
Procurement update · September 2026. Statuses reflect our current lab and procurement roadmap; additional integrations follow hardware availability. Vendor names and logos identify the platforms, not partnerships. 1X logo courtesy of 1X.
Oblique Holdings · future roadmap
AI-powered real estate.
Finances to operations.
Oblique Holdings is where this work extends into passive real estate: connecting financial visibility with the day-to-day reality of running a property.
The roadmap brings income and expenses, cash-flow summaries, documents, maintenance, and owner reporting into an AI-assisted workflow—with people reviewing the decisions.
Future roadmapIf you work at Baselane and you’re reading this: I’d love an MCP connector.
Let’s connect ↗
The person behind the studio
Steven Kaplan
Product builder.
Technologist.
Curious by default.
Oblique Research is an independent product and research studio for turning emerging technology into useful, testable experiences.
My background spans Microsoft, LinkedIn, Salesforce, and Audible. Today, I’m bringing that product experience to hands-on work across software, connected devices, and robotics.
The starting point is a real environment and a recurring task. Build the smallest useful version, test what it does, and use what you learn to shape the next iteration.
AI-assisted development with Claude Code and OpenAI Codex. Product direction, integration, and validation by Steven Kaplan.