99 projects in 5 years · 4 launching in 2026

Small team.
Big ideas.
Unlimited AI.

Original ideas. Viral distribution baked in from day one. AI as the operating layer — not as a feature. No external funding. No large team. No excuses.

100%
Founder-
owned
99
Projects
in 5 years
$0
VC money
raised

01 — DNA

The filter for everything we build.

Every Labs project passes the same three-part test. All three, not two out of three.

01
Original Ideas

We don't iterate on existing categories. We look for gaps that incumbents can't see because they're too committed to what already works. Every Labs project starts where the map ends.

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02
Viral Distribution

Growth is designed into the product from v1. The product is the channel. No paid acquisition as a foundation. If a product needs a marketing budget to survive, it isn't a Labs product.

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03
AI at Every Level

Not AI as a feature. AI as the core operating layer — in how the product works, how it grows, how it delivers value. And in how the studio itself thinks, builds, and decides.


02 — Operations

Small team.
Maximum AI.

No venture backing. No cap table politics. Full ownership, full conviction, full control. Equity is not for sale.

The team is intentionally small — not as a constraint, but as a principle. Every person carries real weight. Every AI tool carries the rest — excessively, deliberately, without apology.

This is the studio model rebuilt for 2026: a handful of sharp people, the full stack of available AI firepower, and a relentless focus on products that don't need a sales team to grow.

Bootstrapped No VC · No dilution
Two-pizza team Small by design
Full AI stack Every layer · No exceptions
100% founder-owned Always
Zero marketing budget Viral or nothing

03 — Portfolio

Four projects. One year.

Each one built to own its category from day one.

01 Live
Atom
atom.me
AI Sales Agent

One link. One AI agent that qualifies your inbound, scores compatibility, and delivers ready leads — 24/7, without you lifting a finger. Replaces your entire sales stack from $0.

Launched March 16 Visit
02 Soon
Open Labs
labs.co
AI Marketplace

Build AI systems without code. Visualize them. Share them. An open-source marketplace with a visual flow builder — 10% commission at every layer. Fork anything. Earn every time someone does.

Launching May 4 Learn more
03 Soon
Wizrag
wizrag.com · wr.ag
Universal Retrieval Protocol

Turn any document collection into a queryable URL. Upload docs, get a link — `wr.ag/{id}`. Drop it into ChatGPT, share it with an agent, or visit it directly. No API keys, no SDKs. The URL is the token.

Launching April 1 Learn more
04 Stealth
Project ████
AI Infrastructure · Undisclosed

Something big is coming. We're not ready to talk about it yet.

Coming 2026 Details TBA
04 — The Model

99 projects. 5 years.

Not ambition for its own sake. A specific theory of how a studio compounds.

01
Know-How Transfer

Every project makes the next one faster and cheaper. What took months on Project 01 takes weeks on Project 10. The studio learns as a unit and that learning is instantly available to every new project.

02
Cross-Promotion

Every Labs project is a distribution channel for every other. The portfolio is a network. Each new project increases the value of every existing one.

03
The Waterfall

A user enters through one project — the one that solves their immediate problem. The experience pulls them into the next. One project is the hook. The portfolio is the retention mechanism.

04
Shared Infrastructure

Every new project inherits a full stack from day one — inference, retrieval, auth, billing, analytics. Shared across the portfolio instead of rebuilt from scratch each time.

05
OpEx & CapEx Synergy

One team, one stack, one distribution base — shared across 99 projects. The marginal cost of launching Project 20 is a fraction of Project 01. Fixed costs spread. Margins compound.

06
Each Project is a Hypothesis

Small surface area, low OpEx, a clear thesis. If the thesis is right, the project grows. If it's wrong, it costs little to find out and the learning transfers immediately to the next bet.

07
Designed to Last

Every project is built to stay live for 5–10 years without major updates. Low operational cost, stable infrastructure. A project that launches stays in market. It doesn't go dark.

08
Tiered Growth

Every project serves a value ladder: end user → consumer → solopreneur → small team → studio. Each tier is a natural upgrade path. Growth happens vertically within each project and horizontally across the portfolio.


The window
is open.
We're moving.

AI inference costs are falling. Open-source models now match proprietary on most benchmarks. The agent economy is here. The tools to build category-defining projects are available for the first time to small teams without institutional capital.

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