Rare Days
Verified51-200Vancouver, Canada
Vancouver product studio, formerly Course Studio, that designs and builds apps, platforms and Claude-based AI features for creator brands and venture-backed companies.
About
Rare Days is a Vancouver product studio (formerly Course Studio) that designs and engineers apps and platforms for creator-led businesses and venture-backed companies. Its AI offer covers agentic features, retrieval systems and in-app assistants, built by a dedicated team or by engineers embedded in the client's own. Published AI work includes ROYO, a reading app for schools that the firm says has generated over 25,000 AI books, and Shay-i, a chat assistant trained on Shan Boodram's books and podcasts. The firm reports 97 clients and 204 projects. AI is one practice inside a larger design and engineering studio, clients lean toward creators and startups, and the contact form starts at a $40,000 to $75,000 budget. No third-party reviews were found.
Focus
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Case studies
3Designed and built an AI guided-reading app that generates personalised decodable books for K-4 students under rule-based content guardrails, plus a teacher dashboard. The firm says it entered a beta in US schools.
Brand, website and paid community build that includes Shay-i, an AI chat assistant trained on the creator's book, podcasts and newsletters. No usage metric is published for the assistant.
Multi-year build and re-architecture of a parenting platform and app. The case page covers platform engineering; the Ask GiGi AI coach is mentioned only on the firm's companies page.
Certifications & partner status
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3Who you’d work with
Tonner Jackson
CEO
Miles Sellyn
VP of Partnerships