Psychokinetic

What Psychokinetic does

Psychokinetic is a US-based, founder-operated digital product design and UX strategy consulting studio delivered as a solo practice by M@ Homier (pronounced /HOE-my-ur/). The firm sells six core services — Innovation Strategy, Design Research, Facilitation, Ideation, Interaction Design, and Prototyping — anchored in a Design Thinking process that runs from customer-empathy research through prototyping and behavioral-economics-driven interface design for mobile, web, smartwatch, voice, and IoT surfaces. Prototyping is delivered at variable fidelity, from paper mockups and click-through wireframes to immersive simulations and near-realistic digital builds with real data, supported by lightweight proprietary artifacts such as a Storyboard Template and a 3D-printed phone prototype holder.

The studio engages enterprise product and innovation teams on a project basis, with relationship-based, quote-priced consulting engagements scoped to either the full product lifecycle or specific stages. The GTM motion is sales-led and direct, relying on portfolio showcasing via the company website and the founder's personal network; there is no digital marketing, paid acquisition, or content-distribution infrastructure in evidence. Notable client engagements include Nationwide (Nimbl consumer debt-reduction app), Deluxe (Business Assist site for small businesses), Linqto (private-equity portfolio and share-sales features), First Data, Financial Fitness Group, and Clarity Design Partners — skewing the book of business toward financial services.

The firm is structured as Psychokinetic LLC, privately held, bootstrapped with no institutional capital, no subsidiaries, and no parent company. There is no app product, no API surface, no AI/ML capability disclosure, and no patents or formal certifications; competitive positioning rests almost entirely on the founder's multidisciplinary expertise and the differentiated insight methodology. Operational scope is domestic US, with explicit reliance on research-facilitation partners to extend research capabilities without internal staffing.

Name

Psychokinetic

Legal name

Psychokinetic LLC

Website

https://psychokinetic.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Psychokinetic is a US-based, solo founder-operated digital product design and UX strategy consultancy that delivers Design Thinking, prototyping, and interaction design services directly to enterprise product and innovation teams across mobile, web, smartwatch, voice, and IoT surfaces.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Worthington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. UX Strategy Consulting: Professional consulting services providing digital product design and UX strategy. Services can be engaged for the entire product journey or specific stages, offering flexibility to clients.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Psychokinetic is a digital product design and UX strategy consulting studio that partners with product and innovation teams across the full product lifecycle. The studio delivers six core services — Innovation Strategy, Design Research, Facilitation, Ideation, Interaction Design, and Prototyping — applying a Design Thinking process to incubate ideas, run user research, facilitate workshops, generate concepts, design interfaces, and build prototypes at multiple fidelity levels for client validation.

Product overview

Psychokinetic is a digital product design and UX strategy consulting studio offering six core service offerings: Innovation Strategy, Design Research, Facilitation, Ideation, Interaction Design, and Prototyping. The studio employs a Design Thinking process to partner with product and innovation teams across the entire product lifecycle. Their portfolio showcases completed projects including mobile and watch banking applications (Apple Watch Banking, Whitelabeled Digital Banking, Nimbl), private equity tools (Linqto), e-commerce concepts (Future of Shopping), and UX research tools (Phone Prototype Holder, Storyboard Template). The company positions itself as flexible, able to engage for the entire product journey or specific stages.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Innovation Strategy Design Thinking-led strategy engagement partnering with Innovation Labs to incubate ideas into products and services, understanding problems from business needs to customer pains before launching innovation processes.
• Design Research Customer engagement and insight-generation service that determines the right ways to draw out critical insights through primary generative activities, lean experimentation, and design validation testing, supported by research partners.
• Facilitation Workshop design and facilitation service covering research synthesis, brainstorming, and planning sessions, coalescing outputs into journey lines, frameworks, and other Design Thinking artifacts.
• Ideation Idea generation service that uses flaring techniques to convert customer insights into a multitude of solution ideas, then narrows to key concepts and fleshes out kernels into detailed concepts.
• Interaction Design UX and behavioral-economics-driven interface design for mobile, web, smartwatch, voice, and IoT devices, delivered from early wireframes to detailed specifications and compatible with agile development environments.
• Prototyping Multi-fidelity prototype development service delivering hand-drawn paper mockups, click-through wireframes, immersive shopping simulations, and near-realistic digital simulations populated with real data to validate ideas with customers.

Named customers6 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Research PartnersminorOthersPK mentions having research partners to help facilitate learning from users at all stages of the design process, from primary generative activities to lean experimentation to design validation testing.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Direct peers

• Ustwo: Digital product studio offering design thinking, research, and product design with a similar boutique, hands-on prototyping culture.
• Smart Design: Boutique design consultancy combining design thinking, research, and interaction design to deliver digital and physical product experiences—closely aligned with PK's service mix.
• IDEO: Pioneering design and innovation consultancy offering design thinking, UX strategy, and prototyping services to enterprise clients—the same core service mix Psychokinetic provides, but at vastly greater scale.
• Frog (Capgemini Engineering): Global design and innovation firm delivering strategy, research, interaction design, and prototyping; directly competes with PK in the same Design Thinking-led engagement model.
• Gemic: Design and innovation consultancy offering research, strategy, and design services to enterprises, with comparable human-centered methodology.
• Artefact: Design and technology consultancy with practices in research, strategy, interaction design, and prototyping; comparable to PK in methodology and client profile.
• Punchcut: Design and innovation studio focused on UX strategy, interaction design, and prototyping across mobile, web, and emerging devices—the same multi-fidelity prototyping PK emphasizes.
• Cooper (formerly Cooper-Hewitt): Interaction design and UX strategy firm with a similar focus on product strategy, customer research, and digital product design for enterprise clients.

Broad incumbents

• Huge: Large digital experience agency offering UX strategy, research, and design at scale; serves many of the same enterprise buyers (financial services, tech) as Psychokinetic.

Emerging players

• Vectorform: Design and innovation firm delivering UX, prototyping, and emerging-tech experiences (IoT, wearables), overlapping with PK's interaction design scope across devices.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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