About the studio

A tattoo artist and an ML engineer. One stubborn problem.

NextTat exists because the disconnect between flat designs and three-dimensional skin is the biggest unsolved frustration in the craft — and the first generation of consumer 3D capture is finally good enough to do something about it.

Origin

Why we started.

NextTat was founded in 2026 in Seattle by Federico (“Fede”) Tronconi and Joshua Young.

Fede has been tattooing internationally for over a decade. He runs Fine Studio in South Lake Union, doing fine-line, micro-realism, and black & grey work with a premium approach to composition, anatomy, and detail. Every day, on every client, he was solving the same problem with intuition: how do you make a flat design sit beautifully on a curved body part?

Joshua spent twenty-five years building software, the last several deep inside generative AI and machine learning. He’d been watching consumer LiDAR mature on iPhone Pro — millimeter-accurate depth, on-device Object Capture, production-fast — and waiting for the right craft problem to point it at.

The conversation they had then is the same one they’re having every day now: what does the tattoo workflow look like when 3D capture is finally useful, not just possible?

How we work

Four operating principles.

Artist-first.

We build for the person holding the machine. If a feature makes the consultation longer or asks the artist to think harder, it’s a feature we cut. Studio managers and clients benefit because the artist does.

On-device by default.

Body scans stay on the phone. The client’s body geometry is their data — not a training set, not a cloud asset. Sync to your own cloud or share via AirDrop only if you choose to.

Open formats. No lock-in.

USDZ and OBJ from day one. If we ever stop shipping, every scan and design our customers built with us is still readable in Blender, Reality Composer, Procreate, and the rest of the toolchain.

Tell the truth about precision.

We publish our error bars, the conditions we tested in, and the cases where the app should refuse to scan. Tools that overpromise ruin trust for everyone in the category. Tattooing has enough cowboys already.

The team

Who’s building this.

Federico Tronconi

Co-founder · CEO

International tattoo artist; founder of Fine Tattoo / Fine Studio in South Lake Union, Seattle. Style: fine line, micro-realism, and black & grey, with a premium approach to composition, anatomy, and detail. Has worked across Spain, the UK, Switzerland, Germany, and the US. Started NextTat because the disconnect between flat reference designs and three-dimensional skin has been the biggest unsolved frustration in the craft.

Joshua Young

Co-founder · CTO

Twenty-five years building software — early-stage startups through Fortune 500 platforms — with the last several years deep inside generative AI and machine learning. Joined Fede because the question he was asking — what does the tattoo workflow look like when 3D capture is finally useful, not just possible — is the right question to spend the next chapter on.

We’re hiring.

Open roles

Looking for a senior iOS engineer with RealityKit / Metal experience and a 3D graphics generalist comfortable in the tattoo/creative space. Get in touch.

Brand & technical partners

Open to collaboration

We’re open to collaborations with brands on creative campaigns, activations, and events, and with developers on automation, streamlined workflow systems, and 3D-driven solutions for the tattoo process. Reach out.

Corporate facts

The boring, important details.

Legal name: [FULL LEGAL ENTITY NAME, e.g. NextTat, Inc.]
Entity type: [e.g. Delaware C-Corp]
Formed: [INCORPORATION DATE]
EIN: [EIN — show last 4 digits or "available on request"]
DUNS: [DUNS NUMBER — required for Apple Developer enrollment]
Registered address: [STREET ADDRESS], Seattle, WA [ZIP], USA
Officers: Federico Tronconi, CEO · Joshua Young, CTO
Contact: hi@nexttat.com

Investor diligence packets and DUNS details available on request. Email hi@nexttat.com.