The System New Business Pitch · Generated 11 Apr 2026
Credentials

Why Cultural Capital Labs

Not a credentials deck. A record of things made and shipped.

01 — The Work

Everything below is live. Has a URL. Was built by us.

The System

Brief-in, four deployed outputs out, under 90 seconds. A production pipeline that demonstrates exactly what this Nike engagement is about: AI as the operating model, not an experiment.

mikelitman.me/run
live
First Order

AI voice agent calling London restaurants for specific dish recommendations. Unscripted, real conversations, extracting structured data. Deployed and logging calls.

first-order-london.netlify.app
~200 calls
With Moshi

AI phone answering for UK restaurants. 29-feature booking system built and deployed. A full commercial AI product, not a prototype.

withmoshi.com
live
Buggy Smart

AI calling buggy-accessible venues across London to verify access. 64 venues mapped. Demonstrates AI data collection at scale in a consumer context.

buggysmart.app
64 venues
The Visible Shelf

295-book AI-curated library with voice-cloned audio takes. Every book has a cover, pull quote, and audio take. AI at scale with brand consistency — the same challenge Nike faces across 40+ markets.

thevisibleshelf.com
295 books
The Pattern

Daily AI cultural briefing. Automated pipeline running daily, producing and publishing editorial content without manual intervention. Consistent output at scale.

mikelitman.me
daily

20+ products in total. These are the six most relevant to a creative production brief.

02 — The Client List
Nike · Adidas · Google · Meta · Gucci · BMW · P&G · EA · Netflix · Sony · TikTok · McLaren · Unilever

Nike is on this list. We have worked with the brand in a senior strategy capacity and understand what the creative standard means in practice — not in theory.

Across these clients: MediaMonks, R/GA, Poke, Dare, AnalogFolk, Contagious, Burst. Brands at different scales, with different creative cultures. Nike is the most demanding. That's why it's first.

03 — Recognition
BIMA 100 Tech Pioneer

One of the UK's top 100 people in technology, as recognised by the British Interactive Media Association.

Published Author — BCS, 2024

Published by the British Computer Society. Peer-reviewed. The kind of credential that requires you to actually know what you're writing about.

MediaMonks — $3.2M Web3 Revenue Line

Built and led the Web3 practice from zero. Signed, delivered, and measured against revenue targets. Not advisory — accountable.

Career path: Digital FrontierMediaMonksContagiousBurst (founder) → R/GAPokeDareAnalogFolkCultural Capital Labs. 15+ years. Always at the frontier, never just observing it.

04 — The Approach

"We don't start with tools. We start with the brief. The question is always: what does the output need to be? The tools follow the answer, not the other way around. That's what makes the difference between an AI experiment and an AI operating model."