DUANE HARRIS — YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO

Builder. Strategist. Artist.

Creative technologist. Copywriter. AI founder. Youth worker. Language as a system. All of it, on purpose.

WEBBY WINNER — APPLE TV+
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Apple TV+.
Webby.
TBWA\MAL.

★ Webby Award 2022 — Social

SIGNAL OPS.
BGCY.
HATARI.

AI agency. Civic tech. Music. All running at once.

RingReply HireFlow GrantBot

Language.
Systems.
Everything else.

Maximinimalism — fewer moves, bigger impact.

WORK 01 / 05
001 / 005
★ Webby Award 2022

Apple TV+

Built @appletvplus from zero at TBWA\Media Arts Lab. Invented the Carousel Spreads format. Wrote the language system. Built the content franchise structure.

"Instagram is a grid. A grid is a magazine. A magazine has covers."
TBWA\MALBRAND VOICE SOCIAL COPYSTRATEGY
CASE STUDY IN PRODUCTION
APPLE
TV+
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[mentality]

750+ archived entries. Card-based publishing system with custom PNG rendering pipeline, Y2K/brutalist visual language, and platform-specific social packages. Live — and embedded further down in The Lab.

DESIGN SYSTEMPUBLISHING IPLANGUAGE
VISIT SITE →
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BGCY Bank

Full-stack youth engagement app for Boys & Girls Club of Youngstown. 120+ live members, staff PIN system, real classroom utility. Civic tech for the Steel Valley.

CIVIC TECHYOUTH WORKFULL STACK
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BGCY
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GLYPH.EXE

Bubble font studio with a Windows 98 aesthetic. Custom type without the friction. Started as a personal need. Now used by others.

TOOLTYPOGRAPHYUI/UX
LINK COMING URL TBD
GLYPH
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Word Worm

284+ entries. Etymology as cultural criticism. Each entry a snapshot of language mid-formation. Coffee table dictionary in development.

PUBLISHING IPLANGUAGECULTURAL ANALYSIS
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THE LAB — LIVE

Tools I build.
Try them here.

Two of them are running below — embedded, live, interactive. Use them without leaving the page. The rest are in the pipeline.

phonterpro.xyz OPEN ↗
LIVE • TYPE TOOL
[phonter]

Three type modes — Experiminator, Maxaminimalizer, Millennializer. Font pairings with actual personality. Pick a mode in the live tool and go.

TYPOGRAPHYTOOLSHIPPED
LOADING PHONTER…
mirrormentality.xyz OPEN ↗
LIVE • PUBLISHING
[mentality]

750+ archived entries. A card-based publishing system with a custom PNG rendering pipeline and a Y2K / brutalist visual language. This is the live archive itself.

DESIGN SYSTEMPUBLISHING IPSHIPPED
LOADING MENTALITY…
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ZEPHYRA

Astrologer app with cosmic dark aesthetic. Birth chart reads, transits, predictive astrology — with actual depth.

LIVE
LINK TBD →
⌨️
promptOS

Prompt management and iteration system. Organizes the prompt engineering work across all verticals.

LIVE
LINK TBD →
🔌
Plugin Master

Claude agent plugin system. Builds, tests, and iterates plugins across all verticals from a single interface.

IN DEV
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GLYPH.EXE

Bubble font studio. Windows 98 UI for a very 2025 use case. Type customization without the friction.

LIVE
LINK TBD →
🌊
Ultra Audit

Site/product audit engine. Surfaces metadata staleness, design system forks, version drift — fast.

LIVE
LINK TBD →
MUSIC
HATARI
01
5 AM IN LA
feat. HATARI, Nicodee — debut feature
02
Blue Jay In The Blizzard
146 BPM — C♯ major — in progress
03
FLOOGAZY
dreamy hyperpop — resilience era
04
DUANYS WRLD
OUT/RAGE/US → SATURN RETURN → HOME B4 MOON SET
SIGNAL OPS

AI that does
the work.

Steel Valley-built AI services for trades, hiring, and nonprofits. Real systems, not demos.

01 — VOICE AI
RingReply
AI receptionist for trades

Never miss a call. Answers, qualifies, and routes leads 24/7. Built for HVAC, plumbing, electrical — businesses that run on phones.

Starter / Pro / Enterprise
02 — HIRING AI
HireFlow
AI hiring screener

Screen applicants before they hit your inbox. Qualifies, scores, and summarizes — so you only talk to people worth talking to.

Pay-per-hire / Monthly / Unlimited
03 — GRANT AI
GrantBot
AI grant writing for nonprofits

From brief to draft. Knows how grants are written, what funders want, and how to position your org. Built from real relationships.

Per-grant / Retainer / Nonprofit rate

Strategy
first.
Culture
always.

"The best copy disappears into the culture. You stop noticing the words and start feeling the thing they were pointing at."
DRHJCREATIVE

Five years in LA. Apple TV+ at TBWA\Media Arts Lab. Webby winner. Back in Youngstown building something real. Founder, copywriter, designer, developer, educator, artist — not because I couldn't pick one, but because the work requires all of it.

5+
YRS EXPERIENCE
WEBBY AWARD
750+
[MENTALITY] ENTRIES
284+
WORD WORM ENTRIES
2019 — 2022
TBWA\Media Arts Lab — Apple
Built @appletvplus from zero. Jr. Copywriter → Copywriter. Carousel Spreads, language system, Cheezus Crust, Friend Check, Log Lines.
★ Webby Award 2022 — Best Individual Post
2015 — 2022
Los Angeles
Agency work, creative development, music. The formation period.
2021 — Present
Boys & Girls Club of Youngstown
COPE, Blue Crew, Creator Lab, BGCY Bank. Civic tech meets education meets design.
2023 — Present
SIGNAL OPS
AI services agency. RingReply, HireFlow, GrantBot — three products, one gate: $2K MRR.
Ongoing
HATARI / DUANYS WRLD
Music, creative universe, alter egos. OUT/RAGE/US → SATURN RETURN → HOME B4 MOON SET.
LET'S BUILD SOMETHING

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duane@drhjcreative.com BOOK A CALL →
© 2026 DUANE HARRIS / DRHJCREATIVE / HATARI YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO