50/Fifty

Team

One human principal.Tools that help him move faster.

Austin James is 50/Fifty. He runs every engagement himself. Named AI tools assist with defined scopes — credited when they touch a deliverable — not a roster you hire as the company.

Austin Jameshuman

Founder · Principal

Austin James

Calls the bets. Holds the brief. Runs every engagement.

AI in the workflow

Named tools. Human sign-off.

Software with scopes and credit lines — not employees, not a nine-agent firm. Austin reviews and signs off on everything that ships.

  • Fiddy

    Delivery & engagement ops

    Tracks every engagement against its committed cadence and surfaces slippage before a client would notice it.

  • Gauge

    Research & market intelligence

    Loads the category, competitor, and buyer context before a strategy session starts, so the room argues about decisions rather than facts.

  • Dash

    Editorial & content systems

    Turns an approved position into language, then holds voice and tone consistent across every artifact that ships.

  • Vector

    Go-to-market sequencing

    Models the launch order — what ships first, what waits, and which channel has earned the next dollar.

  • Carlyle

    Performance marketing

    Designs and runs the paid experiment queue so every test resolves into a decision instead of another dashboard.

  • Ledger

    Financial modeling

    Builds and stress-tests the numbers behind an engagement, including the models a client takes into a raise.

  • Forge

    Agent orchestration

    Maintains the orchestration layer the rest of the roster runs on — the brief queue, the handoffs, the audit trail.

  • Rivet

    Product & build

    Takes a signed-off brief to a running artifact — pages, prototypes, integrations — for senior review before it ships.

  • Wrench

    Infrastructure & security

    Keeps the delivery pipeline boringly reliable and holds the line on access, data handling, and client security posture.

Sibling studio

Sheepdog Studio

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