Johan Gace
Founder, creator, nature guide.
I build technology in service of life.
I work end to end: product, design, and the AI engineering inside it. What I make is live and used every day, most of it under Wyld Way, the company I founded.
I spent close to a decade in tech, including time at Amazon on Alexa and AI, before training as an outdoor guide. I build tools that bring more people outside and put technology back in right relationship with the planet. Underneath all of it is the oldest aim I know, the liberation of every being.
Lately
- Rewyld→
A mindfulness app that composes a different short outdoor practice every time you open it, tuned to where you are, the weather, and the season. Then it directs you to close it and attend to the place you are standing in. Live on iOS and Android.
- Nature Class→
An open source platform that empowers any adult to facilitate outdoor learning: ready-to-lead lessons, the words to guide you, and activities to explore together. Every lesson adapts to where you are, the season, and the weather that morning, so the class meets what is actually outside.
- Pointmoon→
An intelligence layer that understands what is happening in the living world at a particular place and moment. It combines ecological observations, weather, seasonality, and local data, then turns them into timely, evidence-backed signals that products like Rewyld and Nature Class use to create experiences true to where you are. Open source, and open to any app or agent as an MCP server.
- Wyld Quest→
Pilgrimage routes, long-distance treks, and walking challenges for people who walk with intention.
Work with me
Conversational AI design
I make conversational AI that sounds like a person worth talking to. I shape how it speaks: I write the voice and the rules it lives by, build them into your prompts and flows on the models you already use, and set up the evaluation layer that keeps the voice consistent as the product grows.
AI product sprints
I help engineering and AI teams bring their ideas to life. I have taken an AI-native consumer product from zero to a live app, solo, design system and engineering included. If you have a model and a vision and a gap between them, that gap is what I close.
Good fit if you are early, funded, building in outdoors or wellbeing, and you need a teammate who has actually released one.
Get in touch →NaturateConsulting
Design and technology consulting for organizations building toward ecological and cultural regeneration. I create digital infrastructure that serves your mission: platforms, systems, and tools grounded in care for land and community.
Visit Naturate →Guiding nature walks
I lead mindful outdoor experiences that help people deepen their relationship with the natural world through presence, embodiment, and ancestral skills. Certified as a Kripalu Mindful Outdoor Guide and Appalachian Mountain Club leader, I hold space for experiences that reawaken belonging and connection to nature.
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