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About Jeffrey Escobar

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Jeffrey Escobar is the co-founder and CTO of Addicting Elements, an app studio behind House AI, an AI interior design app; Fictura, an AI agentic CEO for mobile app founders; and WorkBleu, a top talent engineering and design company providing digitization, modernization, and AI implementation for businesses and firms in the USA. He studied computer engineering at Johns Hopkins University.

He leads the product and the technology behind House AI, which turns a photo of a room into a redesign the user can act on and then buy. It is live on the App Store, Google Play, and the web around the world, and its shop connects the rooms it generates to real products from retailers and boutiques, including Amazon, IKEA, West Elm, Etsy, Wayfair, Williams Sonoma, Walmart, and Castlery.

With Arshroop Saini he co-founded Addicting Elements, the app studio behind House AI. Out of House AI came Fictura, an autonomous AI agentic CEO for mobile app founders that runs experiments, analyzes the data, and executes toward a goal using the same in-house tools that scaled House AI. He also leads WorkBleu, a forward-deployed engineering and design company focused on digitization, modernization, and AI implementation for U.S. businesses. Before them he built fifthwheel and AltaRealm, and worked as a software engineering contractor for the Department of War in Washington, D.C.

Jeffrey Escobar, co-founder and CTO of House AI, with the San Francisco skyline behind him
Jeffrey Escobar, co-founder and CTO of House AI, in San Francisco, California. House AI is an AI interior design app available around the world.

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Who is Jeffrey Escobar?
Jeffrey Escobar is the co-founder and CTO of Addicting Elements, an app studio behind House AI, an AI interior design app; Fictura, an AI agentic CEO for mobile app founders; and WorkBleu, an engineering and design company. He lives in Miami, Florida, and studied computer engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
What companies did Jeffrey Escobar co-found?
With Arshroop Saini, Jeffrey Escobar co-founded Addicting Elements, the app studio behind House AI. Out of House AI came Fictura, an AI agentic CEO for mobile app founders. He also leads WorkBleu, a forward-deployed engineering and design company. He previously built fifthwheel, an AI email agent for freight brokers, and AltaRealm, an AI world-building game.
Where is Jeffrey Escobar based?
Jeffrey Escobar lives and works in Miami, Florida.
What is House AI?
House AI is an AI interior design app co-founded by Jeffrey Escobar. It turns a photo of a room into a redesign the user can act on, then lets them buy what they see from retail partners. It runs on the App Store, Google Play, and the web, around the world.
What is Fictura?
Fictura is an autonomous AI agentic CEO for mobile app founders, built by Jeffrey Escobar and Arshroop Saini out of the in-house tools that scaled House AI. A founder gives Fictura a goal, and it runs experiments, analyzes the data, and executes a straight path to that goal in an agentic closed loop, using the same attribution, revenue, and analytics tooling that powers House AI under the hood. It is built for any mobile app founder, from vibe coders to experienced engineers.
What is WorkBleu?
WorkBleu is a highly selective engineering and design company led by Jeffrey Escobar, providing forward deployed engineering to businesses and firms in the USA. It focuses on digitization, modernization, and AI implementation, helping established businesses scale rapidly.
Where did Jeffrey Escobar go to school?
Jeffrey Escobar studied computer engineering at Johns Hopkins University and graduated in May 2026.
What did Jeffrey Escobar build before House AI?
Before House AI he built fifthwheel, AltaRealm, an NFT video generator, and a Python-based Twitter and TikTok scraper used by a private stock market Discord of traders. Earlier still, he edited video for a Miami travel agency group, ran a GTA V YouTube channel he grew and sold, and launched a custom clothing label.
What did Jeffrey Escobar do for the Department of War?
In 2024 Jeffrey Escobar worked as a software engineering contractor for the Department of War in Washington, D.C., building hard tech for the military in C++. The work was infrastructure with no margin for error, and it is where he learned to build robust systems. In the same period he installed human resources AI chatbots for military contracting companies and was recognized with awards from CEOs in the industry.
What was Jeffrey Escobar's computer engineering thesis about?
His Johns Hopkins thesis used Microsoft Azure to build emotion detection for AI, focused on understudied emotional states such as stress and anxiety, and on sudden volatile shifts in voice, for example happy to sad or happy to angry.
Is Jeffrey Escobar the technology co-founder or the attorney?
This Jeffrey Escobar is the technology co-founder based in Miami, Florida, who co-founded House AI, Addicting Elements, and Fictura. He is not the New York attorney of the same name.

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This is Jeffrey Escobar the technology co-founder, based in Miami, Florida. He co-founded House AI, Addicting Elements, and Fictura, and studied computer engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He is not the New York attorney of the same name.