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Product Engineering
Web and mobile products taken from an empty repo to production traffic.
Taking on new projects
We build software that ships.
Catalyst Labs is a product engineering studio. We design and build web platforms, AI systems and the automation that joins them together — then we stay on to run them. Small team, short cycles, something working in your hands inside a fortnight.
- Web platforms
- AI systems
- Workflow automation
- Mobile apps
- Internal tools
- Data pipelines
- Design systems
- Cloud infrastructure
- Integrations
- Technical SEO
What we do
Four disciplines, one team.
We are not a marketplace of contractors assembled per project. The same people design the interface, write the service behind it and own the pipeline that ships both.
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AI Systems
Models wired into real workflows, with the evaluation to prove they behave.
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Automation
The plumbing between the tools your business already runs on.
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Digital Growth
Sites, instrumentation and funnels built by the people who built the product.
How we work
No discovery phase that never ends.
Four stages, each with a deliverable you can look at and a point where you can walk away. The first one is a week and stands on its own — you keep the plan whether or not we build it.
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Scope
One week
We map the problem, cut it to what matters this quarter, and write down what finished looks like. You leave with an architecture, a plan and a number — and no obligation to use us for the rest.
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Prototype
Two weeks
Working software on a real URL, not a clickable mockup. It is deliberately incomplete and deliberately usable: the point is to find out what we got wrong while changing it is still cheap.
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Build
Two-week cycles
Every cycle ends with something deployed and a demo of it. You see progress as running software rather than as a percentage in a status report, and you can change direction at any boundary.
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Run
Ongoing, or handed over
We stay on to monitor, patch and iterate — or we hand over a documented system, runbooks included, and go. Which of those happens is your call, and it is made after launch rather than before.
How we think
Four things we will not trade away.
Every studio says it is different. These are the four commitments ours is actually run on — they decide what we say yes to.
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Ship early, ship often
Something you can click beats something you can only read about. First deploy in week one.
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One team, whole stack
Design, application code and infrastructure sit with the same people. Nothing is thrown over a wall.
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Write it down
Decision records, runbooks, and a README that works. No part of what we build should need us to explain it.
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Stay after launch
The interesting failures start when real users arrive. We would rather be there for them than read about them.
Our own products
We ship for ourselves too.
A studio that only ever builds to a brief never finds out what the hard parts cost. This one is ours — same standards, same people, and the reason we already know where the bodies are buried.
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Klara
An AI operations manager for businesses that sell over chat.
Most small businesses lose their day to the same handful of messages: is this in stock, what does it cost, can you deliver by Friday. Klara answers them — against real inventory and real prices, not a script — and carries the conversation through to a placed order. It is ours end to end: we designed it, we built it, and we are the ones it wakes at three in the morning.
- AI agents
- Commerce
- Messaging
What it does
- Answers customers around the clock
- Quotes live stock and real prices
- Takes and manages orders in the thread
Tell us what you are trying to build.
Send us the problem, not a spec. We will come back with how we would approach it, what it would take, and whether we are the right people for it — on the same day, more often than not.