Labs

We still build the software. Quietly, ourselves.

A small in-house engineering team that ships trading systems, market-data pipelines, AI agents, and the occasional fintech experiment. Some products stay internal. Some ship to partners. All keep us honest with founders.

01Markets infrastructure

Tide — internal trading desk

A unified workstation for our public-market book: real-time data, custom analytics, scenario tools, and execution dashboards. Built for humans who actually press the button.

02AI / Markets

Drift — agentic research

A swarm of LLM agents that screen filings, follow earnings calls, and surface the ten things we should think about today instead of the ten thousand we couldn't.

03Founder tools

Kelp — portfolio ops for founders

Lightweight reporting and intelligence for the companies we back. Founders share what they want, when they want; we get signal without the spreadsheet death-march.

04R&D

Salt — fintech experiments

A rotating sandbox of half-built ideas in payments, settlement, and on-chain finance. Some become products. Some become lessons. All ship something.

Engagements

How we work with partners.

We don't run a big agency. We take a small number of builds a year, with people we want to work with.

Greenfield product

From a blank repo to a shipped v1, ideally in 4–10 weeks. Best when there's a sharp problem and someone on your side who'll own it after we leave.

Embedded build

We sit inside your team for 4–12 weeks, ship a hard piece (trading desk, agent pipeline, data plumbing) and hand it over with docs.

Architecture review

A short, honest read on a system you're scaling, with a written plan you can act on. One week.

Got a hard problem?

Tell us what's stuck. We'll tell you straight if we can help.

Hire us to build