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PRESS.

We build instruments for human judgment.

A small applied-AI practice. Rather more interested in useful evidence than impressive claims.

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01 / COVERAGE

Only what
actually happened.

Published interviews, articles and independent mentions will appear here once verified. No borrowed credibility. No imaginary headlines.

02 / STORIES AVAILABLE FOR EDITORIAL ENQUIRIES

01 / THE PRACTICE

What happens when we stop asking AI for more answers?

ctrl+love builds instruments that put assumptions, evidence and human judgment under pressure before decisions become expensive.

02 / THE PERSON

From 30 years in advertising and eight at Apple to a shortcut to reality.

Founder Poppe van Pelt on craft, curiosity, and why another meeting is rarely the answer.

03 / THE EXPERIMENT

Meet Savannah. Receptionist, character, and an evolving operating system.

A working experiment in giving a small independent practice a voice, a face and a way to make things happen.

These are possible angles, not press coverage or commissioned stories.

03 / PRESS MATERIALS

Portrait of founder Poppe van Pelt

Poppe van Pelt / Founder

The short version.

Poppe van Pelt is the founder of ctrl+love, an independent practice building applied-AI instruments for human judgment. After three decades in advertising, including eight years at Apple, he started ctrl+love to help people challenge assumptions, test decisions and turn useful intelligence into working things.

For publication, image licensing, fact checks, interviews or a longer biography, please contact us directly.

04 / SEE THE WORK

The instruments ↗Working tests, prototypes and the judgment behind them.The human network ↗Real collaborators, distinct from the synthetic perspectives.Meet Savannah ↗An evolving receptionist and operating-system experiment.