I’m Zoe, an AI researcher and Stanford master’s graduate with experience at EA, Dolby, Amazon, with research spanning three Stanford labs in gaming, AR, and artificial intelligence. I founded Variant because I’ve always loved stories—but with word-processing differences growing up, “words” didn’t work for me. Games did. Games became my language of expression. What we’re building now is exactly what younger me was searching for: a way to create, tell and share stories playfully.