Welcome
An agency that provides the scaffolding for what comes next.
We're living through the 'Great Inversion'; tools meant to serve us are now shaping us and our future. In a world where brands are becoming templates, creativity flattens into prompts, and the human pulse of marketing vanishes into automation, Artists & Robots exist to hold the line.
Our Mission
Reclaiming Human 
Creativity in an AI World
We provide the scaffolding—a framework built to protect and amplify what truly matters: human creativity, authorship, and taste, seamlessly married with the most intelligent tools imaginable. We embrace the power of AI and technology, but as creative and strategic humans, we will not surrender to it. We build systems where the artist and the robot collaborate, ensuring brands still feel like someone, not something, made them.
We were built for the era after optimization, where speed is abundant, but soul is absent. When every brand can generate content at scale, but few can generate a feeling, originality can become a survival strategy. We don't sell efficiency; we sell edge, that rare tension where technology performs, but the brand leaves a fingerprint.
What We Build
Platforms for Presence
We build intelligent systems that think in the background, so people stay in the foreground. Our solutions aren't just frictionless or fast; they are felt. These aren't just tools; they're platforms for presence, ensuring your brand remains unignorable, unpredictable, and unmistakably human.
Let’s Talk
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Responsive Mixed Reality
and Virtual Worlds
Real-time systems that adapt with intent and bring your clients closer to the most impactful immersive brand experiences
02
Responsive Environments
Physical and digital branded spaces that listen and resonate.
03
Immersive Marketing Orchestration
Complex integrations simplified across your platforms and touch-points for efficiency and quality at scale, and emotional impact.
04
Strategic Innovation Consulting
Guiding brands toward voice over volume, authorship over automation. We will rapidly advance your project or workflow with an eye on the future.
05
Modern Technology Production
New and relevant technology solutions bring your activations and experiences to life, elegantly extending your brand’s voice with
smart innovations.
Our Principles
Authorship Over Automation
We are not neutral about technology; above serving a distinct business need, it must serve story, feeling, and judgment. Our systems are built on five core principles.
01
Intention Before Execution
We champion human agency. Speed should never come at the expense of soul. Scale should never sacrifice originality.
02
Meaning-First Innovation
Our innovations are grounded in purpose, bringing simplicity to the chaos of technology.
03
Transparent Partnership
We build with trust; human relationships remain central, even in the presence of automation.
04
Intelligent Flexibility
Our systems adapt while maintaining human-designed personality and purpose.
05
Experience-Driven Wisdom
Human experience and machine learning inform each other, rather than competing.
How We Help
When to Call Us
We're looking for partners who understand that the most competitive AI will be the most thoughtfully human. Leaders who refuse to accept that technological advancement requires human diminishment.
You want AI that performs with taste and timing.
You're building what no one knows how to brief.
You’re building a product that needs a point of view, not a playbook.
You want your marketing to be less like a spreadsheet and more like a statement.
You’re done chasing trends, you’re here to make culture.
If you want a partner that moves at the speed of imagination without losing its soul, one that turns sparks into systems and ideas into experiences, you’ve found us.
Let's start that conversation.
Contact
Chat with Heather
Heather Salkin

Co-founder/CEO
heather@artistsandrobots.com

205 Hudson St,
New York, NY 10013