skylab is the agency built for the new era. A senior-led two-person team, modern tooling, and a process that ships at the pace of a department — with every line of code reviewed before it reaches you.
we reply within 24 hours
A feature, a bug list, an AI automation, a vague idea. We read your codebase and send back a written brief inside 24 hours.
Several features advance in parallel, or one hard problem gets sustained focus. Tooling scales the throughput — the judgment stays ours.
Nothing ships without a human reading it. A senior engineer reads the diff line by line.
Commits in chunks you can actually review. Daily async updates. One contact, one team.
Nothing reaches you that has not been reviewed by a human.
The AI never talks to the client. That separation of concerns is not a limitation — it is the whole point.
Built a production-scale pipeline for influencer-driven e-commerce with thousands of products that needed intelligent metadata and categorization. Deployed a custom vision LLM pipeline that classifies content at scale, with human review gates on every low-confidence result.
items classified
accuracy
lower cost than manual tagging
Built a suite of music and audio tools: deep integrations with streaming APIs, generative audio testing for creator workflows, and a dedicated sales surface. Three repositories, one team, one vision. Domain-specific engineering in a vertical most agencies cannot touch.
repos shipped
APIs integrated
team, end to end
An iOS app that turns text messages into AI-generated songs. Multiple music generation API integrations, real-time audio processing, lyrics synchronization, StoreKit subscriptions, A/B testing, and analytics. Live on the App Store with real paying users. From concept to shipped product in weeks.
AI APIs integrated
on the App Store
team, end to end
Custom e-commerce storefront for a European retail market with real-time inventory sync from a legacy accounting system. Two-way communication, compliant payments, purpose-built infrastructure. Not a template, not a plugin — the right thing for a specific market.
real-time sync
compliance
plugins required
The multi-client operations platform we built for ourselves. Task aggregation, live agenda dashboards, AI briefing, human review, deployment orchestration. We eat our own cooking — every process we learned from clients, we automated for ourselves. This is what you get when you hire us.
platforms aggregated
queue, auto-prioritized
live dashboards
End-to-end consumer product from vision to live application. Frontend, backend, infrastructure, monitoring, the whole chain. Novel UX patterns. Careful performance tuning. Live today, users engaging, the team owns every layer. We focus on products that stay live, not features that get abandoned.
stack coverage
in production
by the team
Next.js, React, Node, Python. Postgres, Supabase, Turso. Real apps with real users in production — e-commerce, SaaS dashboards, content platforms, internal tools. Production standards from day one.
Native Swift for iOS, React Native and Expo for cross-platform. Standalone apps or native layers grafted onto existing web platforms. App Store, Play Store, TestFlight — we handle the whole chain.
AWS, Cloudflare, Vercel, NixOS, PM2. CI/CD on every commit, observability that catches problems before users do, zero-downtime deploys and migrations. Deployment is built in from the first commit.
Systems sized to the users you have, not a theoretical peak. Multi-tenant by design, event-driven where it matters, AI-native where it genuinely helps users — not for the pitch deck.
Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Perplexity. RAG on private data, autonomous agents, evaluation frameworks that measure output quality. Production LLMs in our stack from the start — we know the seams where they fail and the patterns that work.
When no existing tool fits, we build the right thing from scratch. Internal dashboards that become an advantage, integrations your competitors do not touch, tools built for one team only — and better for it.
It speaks to the next engineer who reads it, not just the machine. We write for humans first. Clarity over cleverness.
We use AI only where it is reliable; everything else stays deterministic. The model writes code for a structure already decided — it does not decide the structure. A human always reviews. A human always decides.
You should not see the machinery — just one team, one channel, one interface. The complexity stays on our side of the wall.
More code, more features, more load should never mean lower quality. We scale the team, not the standard — senior-engineer judgment on every commit.
A small team, a tight budget, legacy code, weird infrastructure — not obstacles. They shape the solution. The best systems are the constrained ones.
We do not hand off and vanish. We deploy it, monitor it, and respond when it breaks. While we are engaged, the product is not done until it stays live.
A freelancer is one person working on a task. We are a senior engineer and a technical project manager backed by a fleet of AI agents, working on an outcome. A senior engineer sits between every output and you. You get the judgment of a CTO with the throughput of a department. Also: no context loss. Our tooling is built for continuity across months, not days.
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