Anna Sutton makes things by hand and makes them work. She spent a decade at LAIKA Studios, where she started out painting puppets and left as head of the Puppet Paint department, leading teams of eight or more, building the workflow systems the department ran on, and helping put three Oscar-nominated films on screen.

Through AB Sutton Design, she helps businesses build identities that are clear and workflows that hold up under real deadlines: brand strategy, digital marketing, visual design, and the project management that gets it all shipped.

Her focus lately is human-AI collaboration, practiced daily rather than talked about. She builds tools like Carrierfile that let people own their context and keep their AI working the way they do, and writes The Carrierfile, a weekly newsletter of hands-on "Take-Home Experiments" that show everyday people how to make AI genuinely theirs. It's all the same instinct: help people see their own context clearly, so they can better navigate the tools and systems they work in.