An AI lab, run like an engineering team.
O8N Lab was founded to close the gap between AI research and production software. We partner with founders and engineering teams as an embedded product engineering team — bringing the applied AI expertise and software engineering discipline needed to ship products that hold up in the real world.
No beginning. No end.
The mark is an infinity symbol — a nod to “origination,” the continuous work of turning an idea into something real, and then keeping building on it. We don't think of software as a thing you ship once and walk away from. Every product we build is a starting point, not a finish line.
What we believe
Ship real systems
We measure ourselves on production outcomes, not demos. If it doesn't hold up under real users, it isn't done.
Senior by default
Every engagement is staffed with senior engineers who've built and shipped AI products before, not junior benches.
Transparent process
You see our reasoning, our tradeoffs, and our progress the whole way through — no black boxes.
Pragmatic about AI
We reach for AI and ML where they genuinely solve the problem, and plain engineering where they don't.
The team
We're a small, senior team of product engineers, ML practitioners, and full-stack developers who've built and shipped AI products in production. We stay small and hands-on by design, so every engagement gets our best people, not a bench. Alongside client work, we're building our own product for real estate tech — the same discipline we bring to every engagement, applied to our own roadmap.
How we engage
Every engagement starts with a conversation, not a proposal template. We scope around your problem first, then recommend whether that looks like a focused product sprint, an embedded team, or ongoing technical advisory.
See how we workWant to work with us?
We take on a limited number of engagements at a time so we can stay hands-on.