Creative director · Writer · Founder

Casey Milone

Twenty years writing the voice of companies building the future. Now I work on the harder question: what stays human when AI can make anything?

Place your hand on the wall

Handprint traced from Casey’s keynote footage, 33:20The hand is a live mask in the shader; notes peel and refill in a ripple from the clickDraft copy written with Claude. Casey rewrites it.

Keynote · PNW Creative Conference

The Last Audience

Forty thousand years ago, someone pressed a hand to a cave wall and blew pigment around it. We still feel them reaching. What happens to that feeling when we can’t tell whether a person was there at all?

“You just felt AI’s message. Not the content. The message.”

Keynote · PNW Creative Conference

The Last Audience

Each tile prints its patch of the frame, then the seams close into the real videoFull talk streams from Mux; chapters timed from the script’s slide cues

R&D

Self-initiated experiments with AI in creative work. None were commissioned. Each started with a question and ended with something I could look at.

GitHubgithub.com/GenCasey

01 · Systems · 2026

Automated editorial system

Could one person run a whole publication's editorial cycle — research, pitching, drafting, editing, social and listening — as a designed system rather than a to-do list?

Every one of the 143 posts on the Numonic blog since December 2025 came through it — mine, my co-founder's and the team's.

  • Claude
  • Custom skills
  • Keyword data
  • GitLab
  • Next.js dashboard
A month in notes, laid out like a real calendar; today in teal

Professional timeline

2011 to now: Seattle agencies, brand voice at Alaska Airlines, Microsoft and NVIDIA, nine years running Generative, and Numonic.

2011–2014 · Copywriter and creative director

Seattle agencies

Naming, brand voice and pitch work for Seattle agencies: LiveAreaLabs, Hybrid3 and Creature.

  • Brand tone, RFP responses and pitch material
  • App naming, including USPTO and URL validation
  • Client discovery and stakeholder interviews
The top of the Space Needle in notes: the roof and halo in cream

Logos are trademarks of their owners.

The book · Debut novella

ALGO

A Story of Love and Algorithm

Hanna works in a generative design agency, curating AI-developed branding, when her life takes an unexpected turn. Upon realizing that her coworker-turned-love-interest has engaged in the greatest act of intellectual property theft in history, she’s pulled into a world of AI manipulation, mixed reality, and otherworldly art installations.

After failed kidnapping attempts, extortion, and violence, they find themselves risking everything to expose how the algorithm underpinning the global economy has been used to manipulate the world they live in subtly.

The notes assemble into the cover, then the seams close so it reads as the original

How this site was built

This site was built with AI, in conversation, the same way the keynote’s images were. Every shape on it is made from the same few thousand notes. Turn the build on and every section shows how its parts were made.

The words are a draft until I rewrite them myself.

Built in conversation
Claude Code
The shard world
Three.js, custom shaders
The glass
QuickLiquid
Components
Cult UI
Night sky
Nano Banana Pro on Comfy Cloud
Logos
Wikimedia Commons and my own brand files
R&D
Claude, ComfyUI, Numonic
The keynote
Claude, Gemini, Midjourney

Contact

Email is the best way to reach me. Click the wall to leave your print beside mine.

The wall again, with my print filled teal; your clicks press cream prints beside it