Henri HuotariChief AI Officer, founder, and operatorStart a conversation

Flagship AI initiative

Sumo AI Platform

Production-focused AI tooling for image creation, editing, and scaling inside Sumo Paint, a widely used creative ecosystem.

CompanyDiscuss a similar build

Challenge

Challenge

Translate fast-evolving generative AI capability into product experiences that creative users can adopt without friction.

Outcome

Outcome

A creative AI system inside Sumo Paint — Create, Instruct, and Reimagine modes plus generation, editing, and scaling — that helped take the company into an AI Accelerator program.

The brief

The opportunity was bigger than adding a single AI feature. The real work was defining a usable creative system around generation, editing, and scaling while keeping the product approachable.

What I drove

  • Directed how AI concepts became user-facing Create, Instruct, and Reimagine product modes

  • Designed API and product workflow for image generation, editing, and scaling

  • Worked across technical execution, product framing, and launch readiness

Why it mattered

The AI feature set helped take Sumo into an AI Accelerator program — a concrete validation that the work was both technically sound and commercially relevant.