Lathe Labs
Operator-built AI

We find what slows your business down. Then we build the tool that fixes it.

You already know the jobs that eat your week. We build the AI tools that take them off your plate: scoped with you, prototyped in days, deployed in weeks. No agency runaround, no six-month project. Built by two people who run their own businesses on these exact tools.

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The friction

Somewhere in your week there is work that should not be this hard.

Missed callWhile you were with a customer. No message left. 19:42
Quote still in draftsTuesday's job, still not sent. It is Thursday. day 3
Same details, third systemCalendar, job sheet, invoice. Typed three times. again
The 2015 templateThe job sheet nobody dares to touch. 10 yrs

Every owner knows their version of this list. It piles up quietly, every single week.

What most have not heard yet is how cheap it has become to fix.

The part most people miss

Custom tools used to be an enterprise luxury. Not any more.

Fixing this kind of friction properly used to mean a dev agency, a six-figure budget and a six-month wait. So small businesses lived with it. AI-assisted development has changed the maths: a small senior team can now scope, prototype and deploy a real, custom tool in weeks. First builds typically land in the low four figures, not six. That is what we do.

What a custom tool costs
$200k+
a dev agency, then
a fraction
AI-assisted, now
How long it takes
thenmost of a year
nowweeks
each tick, one month
Before
  • An agency, a big budget, a long contract.
  • Months of specification before you saw anything.
  • If it missed the mark, you paid anyway.
Now, with AI-assisted development
  • A working prototype in days, not months.
  • You try it on your real work before committing to more.
  • Deployed into your business in weeks, then improved as you use it.
How we work with you
STEP 01

Find the friction

A free audit. We look at how you actually work and pick the two or three places where a tool would pay for itself.

STEP 02

Propose the fix

A plain proposal: what we would build, what it costs, what it saves. You decide.

STEP 03

Prototype in days

You see it working on your real cases before you commit to more.

STEP 04

Deploy and run

We ship it, wire it into your tools, and stay to run and improve it. You stay in control throughout.

Free to start First builds typically low four figures See it working before you commit No lock-in, stop any time
Why us

We don't just advise on AI. We run our businesses on it.

Ben built and runs two transport companies and the technology behind them. Marie builds AI systems for enterprise clients. Everything we offer, we use ourselves first. So you get tools that work in a real business, set up by people who understand running one. And you deal with us directly: the people you talk to are the people who build it.

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Proof

Don't take our word for it. Watch them run.

Three systems, built for our own companies first: 39,188 email threads read and classified, calls answered around the clock. On the next page every one of them demonstrates itself, live.

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What is eating your week?

Tell us on a 20 minute call, or start with a free audit. Either way, you will leave knowing where your time is going, whether you work with us or not.

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