A small studio for AI strategy and AI engineering.

Engineering against ambiguity.

Zero Labs is an applied AI lab and consultancy. We work with founders, executives, and engineering teams on the systems that matter — from initial strategy through to shipped code.

i. On the practice

Two practices, in concert.

— 01 / Build

AI consulting & custom builds.

Production AI systems built to ship and last. LLM features, agentic workflows, retrieval pipelines, and the evaluation infrastructure that keeps them honest.

We work end-to-end with your team — spec, prototype, ship, hand off — or stay on as a long-term technical partner.

  • LLM products and assistants
  • agentic workflows and orchestration
  • retrieval and data pipelines
  • evaluation and observability
— 02 / Advise

Research & strategy advisory.

Independent technical assessments and AI roadmaps for executives, boards, and investment committees. We answer the hard questions plainly: what to build, what to buy, what is vapor, what is coming.

Written reports, in plain English. No slide-show theatre.

  • technical due diligence
  • AI roadmaps and build/buy decisions
  • briefings for boards and non-technical leadership
  • investment-side technical reviews
ii. How we work

How we work.

  1. Useful over impressive.

    Software is in service of an outcome, not the other way around. We optimize for the result you actually need — even when a simpler tool does the job.

  2. Same hands, end to end.

    The people writing the assessment are the people who would ship it. No handoff theatre. No slide deck disconnected from what's actually possible to build.

  3. Honest engineering.

    The right answer is sometimes don't build it. We say so. Our reputation is worth more than any single engagement.

  4. Small team, deep range.

    We stay small on purpose. The work that comes through the door gets the attention of people who can do it themselves, end to end.

iii. Begin

Begin a conversation.

Currently working with a small number of partners. The announcement, the engagements list, and the contact form will follow shortly.

Soon — coming online