A product company

We build our own AI products. ZUQ is live.

9owls, Inc. designs, ships and operates its own software — product, engineering, infrastructure and billing, all in-house. Our first product, ZUQ, is live at zuq.si. More are in the queue.

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Product shipping today
30 h
Longest ZUQ course
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01 Our flagship product

ZUQ.
Anything, explained.

Live at zuq.si

ZUQ is an AI video generator. It turns a question, notes or a document into a narrated, animated explainer — from one minute to thirty hours. Hand it the thing nobody reads, and it gives back the video everyone finishes.

Built, owned and operated by 9owls, Inc. We run the product, the engineering, the infrastructure and the billing ourselves.

  • 1 min – 30 hA short explainer, or a full course of up to 60 lessons
  • 3 formatsA question explained, a document taught back, or a whole course
  • 4 plansFree, Scholar, Lab and Institute — $0 to $199 a month via Stripe
  • 4 levelsBeginner to expert, so a subject is taught at the learner's depth
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Request

“I have a 41-page lease to sign tomorrow and I don't know what I'm agreeing to.”

Plan

  1. 01Rent, and how it changes6 min
  2. 02Break clause and exit5 min
  3. 03Service charge and liability7 min
Rendering narration + animation 3 chapters · 18 min
Also made with ZUQ: Fractions, for an eleven-year-old · A Google interview, in three evenings · Engineering mathematics, end to end

02 Next in the queue

3D models,
made on the device.

A character or object described in words becomes a 3D model you can rotate, animate and drop into AR — without your data ever leaving the device.

  1. 01

    Imagine

    Apple Intelligence Image Playground generates the subject on-device, then re-views it from front, three-quarter, side and back off the same reference.

    ImagePlayground · ImageCreator
  2. 02

    Isolate

    Apple Vision lifts the foreground subject out of every view into a clean mask, with a consistent scale and ground anchor across frames.

    Vision · foreground instance masks
  3. 03

    Reconstruct

    OpenCV matches features across views, solves each camera pose and carves the subject's volume out of its silhouettes into a mesh.

    OpenCV · feature matching · solvePnP · visual hull
  4. 04

    Check and ship

    Every output is scored on-device for sharpness, aesthetics and prompt match before it is texture-baked and exported for AR.

    Vision aesthetics · USDZ · AR Quick Look

More products are in the queue. We announce each one when it ships.

03 Company

Small team.
Our own products.

9owls, Inc. is the parent company of ZUQ. We put our time into a short list of products we own end to end, and we ship them one at a time.

We run our own AI infrastructure: model orchestration, retrieval, evaluation and media generation pipelines. ZUQ runs on it today, and every product after it will too.

Nine eyes on one problem at a time — then we ship it and move to the next.

Founder

Ashish Salve

Leads product and engineering for ZUQ and everything in the queue.

Products

ZUQ · on-device 3D

One live, one next. AI video generation today; 3D model generation after it.

See what we ship.

ZUQ is live and free to start. One question in, one video out.

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