Who I am

I came from film and art. The through line is craft.

Portrait of Elijah Ko, founder of Koine Studios, Grand Rapids

I spent years in film and visual art before this. What carried over is my standard: if a customer email or a review reply doesn’t sound like your business, it isn’t done. AI does the drafting. I decide whether it’s good enough, and most first drafts aren’t.

Koine Studios is a one-person studio in Grand Rapids. I’m on site for the day and remote for the build, working with owner-run businesses across West Michigan and beyond.

About the name: koine is the Greek word for the common tongue, the shared language ordinary people actually spoke. AI is a technical dialect most owners never asked to learn. I translate it into working systems you can run, in language your customers actually read.

Everything I learn doing this work goes into the Classroom, free: the same thinking I bring to a paid build, written down for anyone who wants it.

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