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One hard problem at a time.

We take paid R&D work on problems standard AI tools leave unsolved. It uses or improves our open tools, and starts with two free hours.

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What we take on.

A hard problem in your product.

We work in your repository and on your accounts, with our open-source agent harness, on the problem your team has not cracked. Your engineers can read every change, and the code is yours. Today that means Next.js, Expo and Supabase, the stack the harness supports.

Agent-built apps that have to hold up.

We move an app made by an AI builder into a repository your engineers can take over. It runs on the stack the harness supports, with gates in CI and row-level security tested on a real Postgres. Or we bring a harness project’s security floors up to date.

Sector partnerships.

Where the system has a market past your own walls, we build it with you and take a share of what it earns instead of the full fee up front. Terms are agreed before the first commit.

How a project runs.

  • Two free hours first, on the real problem with your team. You leave knowing whether we think it can be solved, and how we would measure it.
  • Then a fixed price, and a test we agree in writing before we start.
  • One project at a time. While one runs, the next waits.
  • Who owns what is settled before the first commit. In your repository, the code is yours; in a sector partnership, the agreed terms decide.

Who does the work.

Thomas Nicklin, contractors we name before you sign, and AI coding agents that write most of the code under our checks. One person answers for every line.

About the lab

What we hold and what we don’t, and where your data goes: Trust & security.

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The two hours cost nothing, at your desks in Perth and elsewhere by arrangement.