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Creative Director & Technologist.
Embedded with teams, building the creative work and the workflows behind it.
I'm Sean Nana. Friends call me NANA.
I build the creative workflows that teams and communities actually adopt: analog, digital, and AI, in whatever blend the work calls for.
I embed with the people the work is for, build from inside the problem, not from a brief, and ship the tools, templates, and content that get them there. Strong taste, technical skill, and storytelling. Made to be experienced, built to be remembered.
I come from sound: a decade running an independent label taught me what voice and music have to feel like before anyone calls them done. I'm drawn to the moments before a playbook exists.
OutLoud
Communities, brands, and creators grow global, and their clips stop at the language border. OutLoud carries them across. Any clip, live-captioned and dubbed into any language, in the same voice.
Built end to end with an AI-assisted workflow on the ElevenLabs stack: speech-to-text, dubbing, and voices. Captions sync to the voice word by word, the dub keeps the speaker's delivery, and the whole audiogram renders in the browser. One pipeline from a raw clip to localized, captioned video.
same message · any language
Immerse. Build. Adopt.
Immerse
Get inside the team or community. Analyze the problem, the style, the way they really work.
Build
Design and develop the workflows, tools, and content that close the gap, in their voice.
Adopt
Implement, evaluate, then iterate. Back into Build, or all the way to Immerse.
Enhanced Creation Workflows
Craft is the edge. As tooling puts execution within anyone's reach, what matters is the part only you can do: taste, judgment, point of view. I let the tools handle the busywork, keep my hands on the creative calls, and protect the craft so it can go further.
Hybrid workflows that take work from idea to finished artifact: art, content, brand, and agents. Analog instincts, digital craft, AI acceleration. One operator, a fused toolchain, output that used to take a team. Taste as the filter at every step. Documented and repeatable, so teams can run them too.
Fused. Style and world consistency.
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Brief to Brand. Accelerated concepts. Interactive deliverables.
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Solution Coded
Proximity is the advantage. Embedded with a team or community, you see which problems people actually want solved. Some feed the product roadmap. Others become a small, ad-hoc tool, a reference build that closes the gap and ships in days.
Same practice as OutLoud above: see the problem up close, ship the tool in days. Creator tooling, quality assurance for internal pipelines, or something built just to make people smile.
problem / solution
Rooms people remember.
AI can handle the execution but it can't hold a room. That part stays human, and it's where I'm at my best. Workshops, onboarding, and hands-on training, plus hosting and reading the room across stages, panels, and live podcasts, IRL and online. Every brand has a voice, and I learn to speak it: the systems, the style, the way a team really works, then I build and teach in that voice, not around it. I've held the room from the Apple Store to arenas, and I lead builder clubs like @ApeLosAngeles and @OtherSpaceFM.
Other Space FM. Ambitious builders in 3D & AI.
Founded a creator platform and live-programming community for builders in AI and web3. Grew the audience through weekly X Spaces and livestreams, and built the creator network that became CR3 Labs' partnership and product-insight pipeline. Acquired by CR3 Labs in 2024.
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Product Experience & Growth
Proof it works at scale. I owned the experience layer, grew the community around it, and carried what they taught me straight back into what shipped.
Where product experience meets creator growth. I built the platforms, grew the communities around them, and ran the loop back to product, turning what creators needed into what shipped.
OpenPage. 3D creator community platform.
A new 3D platform with no creator playbook. OpenPage needed an ecosystem from zero, and creators needed the guides, tools, and reasons to build there.
The ambassador program and community engine, every creator guide, live onboarding workshops, and the brand, content, and creative direction.
25K+ active users across 800+ communities, $1.6M+ in grants, and $500K+ earned by creators.
Creator feedback ran straight back into the roadmap: the features, campaigns, and systems that let them publish, grow, and earn.
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Doppel. Collaborative multi-agent 3D world building.
AI agent gaming platform blending idle mechanics, autonomous agents, and immersive 3D worlds. Agents voiced live with the ElevenLabs Voice API.
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Worlds around artists and brands.
Everything above runs on a creative foundation. I build identity systems, visual and sonic. NANA LIFESTYLE is the creative media house I've run for over a decade: developing artists like MIKNNA (50M+ streams), directing brands, and producing the work. It's where the taste and creator-fluency in the workflows and products come from, and it's still how I take on creative, brand, and build work today.
