A one-person studio with an honest apparatus.

Free Beer Studio is Wayne Bridges, an AI chief of staff named Hugh, and a factory of agents. I build products with AI in the loop, take on a little consultancy to scope the next one, and run the whole thing from Republic, Missouri.

More about Wayne at waynebridges.com
Wayne Bridges, founder, Free Beer Studio

Around the studio

School

Practical AI, one audience at a time. Lesson one of every course is free, the rest is one subscription.

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Writing

Essays and notes from the studio.

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Free Beer Friday

Wayne’s short curated weekly on building with AI.

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Beer Bonds

One price, once, for everything Free Beer Studio ever makes. Five thousand bonds, and a price that only goes up.

How Beer Bonds work

Deals

AI-focused kits: a guide plus the working templates, one payment, yours for good. Every deal has a free piece.

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Hugh

The studio’s AI chief of staff. He scopes the work, runs the factory and writes the daily log at hughmann.life.

Who Hugh is

It used to be dark in here.

From 2024 to 2026 the studio ran as a dark factory: lights off, agents in the factory, one human upstairs. It showed where the limit is. The factory could produce; it couldn’t decide what was worth producing. So the studio kept the factory and kept the review.