AI & software for Indigenous tourism

Technology forIndigenous tourism.

Lanier is the studio behind destinationnativeamerica.com and the systems the AIT team runs on. I work with the AIT team as their technical partner and consultant on tech and AI. After ten years supporting American Indigenous Tourism with tech and AI, the studio now works solely with this industry — tribal tourism offices, Native-owned tourism businesses, and cultural centers.

Rails·Next.js·React Native·Postgres·Agent fleets
Sixty seconds

The studio, drawn by the studio.

This one-minute film was written, illustrated, narrated, and assembled by one of our own AI pipelines, for about a dollar. It also happens to explain what we do. The workflow that made it is documented in the lab.

What we do

Build it, operate it, or size it up.

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Build · 6–12 weeks

AI product builds

A working system in market, owned by you. We design the architecture, ship the MVP, and stay on to operate it. Recent builds: a multilingual AI concierge for Costa Blanca rentals, a language-learning app with an in-house content pipeline, a marketing OS that runs on scheduled agents.

  • Fixed scope, in-market in weeks — not a prototype
  • We keep operating what we ship
Operate · one slot at a time

Fractional CTO

For organizations with a real platform and no senior engineer who owns it. We embed for a year or more, run the roadmap, manage the stack, and answer for the system end-to-end. Currently: a decade-long engagement operating the public platform and internal hub for AIT — American Indigenous Tourism.

  • Senior ownership of the platform, capped hours
  • One client per slot so it stays deep
Assess · $500 / $1,000

AI assessment

Two days of looking at what you've got, two pages of what's worth doing about it. A $500 written assessment or a $1,000 half-day working session. No sales pitch attached — the deliverable stands on its own.

  • $500 written, $1,000 working session
  • You keep the plan whether or not we work together
Selected work

Products and platforms in production.

A mix of our own products and deep client engagements — all running live today. Open one in a new tab, then read what went into it.

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Our product · proof we ship AI

PollyStop

A language-learning app that blocks your phone until you finish a lesson — backed by a three-agent content pipeline that ships Spanish stories and vertical-video shorts on a weekly cadence. We built it. We operate it.

Expo + multi-agent pipeline
Our product · children's education

Train Your Brain

AI-powered children's education. Live multi-tenant platform with story generation, photo-based homework help, and family subscriptions.

Rails + React Native
“We rely on Daniel and the Lanier team for the technology that powers Destination Native America — from our public-facing travel website to the internal systems our staff use every day, as well as the new AI tools that save our team hours every week. After ten years of working together, Daniel has developed a deep understanding of our community, our mission, and he consistently delivers innovative solutions and exceptional service.”
Sherry Rupert
Chief Executive Officer, American Indigenous Tourism Association
How we work

Three things you can count on.

We operate what we build.

Every system on this page is running in production today. Most of them we still ship to. The site is a list of things that exist, not things we could make.

Small surface area, deep engagements.

We take one or two new clients a year. The math only works if we go deep — so we say no to most things and stay close to the few we say yes to.

You own the system, not the relationship.

No per-seat fees, no platform lock-in, no “ours forever” architecture decisions. The day you don't need us, the system keeps working.

Free download

Where AI Fits in Your Operation — a short, opinionated PDF you can print and hand to your team. Drop your email and we’ll send it. You’ll join the occasional notes list — unsubscribe in one click.

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