The in-house team for ai-native companies.
1126labs embeds with founder's and companies as their product & engineering team - shipping custom software and rapid product development.
⟩ what we do
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Bring us your business. We build the system. Your team just ships.
Product engineering for AI-native companies. Two surfaces. One operating discipline.
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The 1126labs Embed
A small operator team - engineers, designers, AI leads - dropped into your company as in-house. Ship custom software, AI agents, and automation in weeks, not months.
3 wks
first release
2–4
operators / engagement
100%
code handover
Own the code · Own the keys · Own the models
Book an intro callBlueprint - 30-min audit
A free diagnosis, not a pitch. Thirty minutes on where your business actually stands and what going AI-native would take - with an honest read on whether we're the right team.
Live workflow review
30 minWritten prescription
48 hoursShip / no-ship call
no deck40+founders audited
Get your BlueprintLegacy · agencies & consultancies
Kick off in a quarter. Deliver a deck. Bill by the hour. Leave.
- Account managers between you and the builders
- Retainers that outlive the actual problem
- Handovers no engineer wants to inherit
1126labs
Embed in a week. Ship in three. Hand it over. Stay only if you want us to.
- Operators in your standup, on your Slack, in your repo
- Production code - not slides, not dashboards
- You keep the code, the keys, and the models. Always.
Who we are.
Two things to know. We embed instead of consult. We ship AI-native systems instead of decks. Everything else - the process, the pricing, the pace - follows from that.
01 / EMBED
Drop in as your in-house team.
Operators, engineers and AI leads joining your standups, your Slack, your repo. No account managers, no proposal cycles - same speed as a founding team.
02 / SHIP
AI-native systems, in production.
Every workflow, product and internal tool we build assumes intelligence is cheap. Real code, real deployments, real users - you own the models, the keys and the repo.
Ch. 02 - How we work
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Four moves. One shipped product.
The same discipline as the Blueprint - compressed into a fixed engagement. Diagnose, prescribe, build, hand over. Repeated until the product performs, not until the retainer ends.
01CONSULTANCY
/ 01AI-NATIVE PRODUCT,& TECH CONSULTANCY.
We think like operators, not advisors. Recommendations we'd ship ourselves.
02EMBED
/ 02TECH CO-FOUNDER,OR IN-HOUSE TEAM.
We plug in as the technical spine - architecture, roadmap, code reviews.
03SHIP
/ 03PRODUCTS & POCS,IN 48 HOURS.
Two-day sprints from brief to something running - real code, real users.
04AUDIT
/ 04AUDIT, PLAN & BUILD,AN AI-NATIVE COMPANY.
We map your stack, prescribe the moves, and stay to build them AI-native by default.
Same method as the Blueprint - free 30-min audit before we start.
Read the BlueprintCh. 03 - Principles
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Four rules we never break.
How we stay an in-house team and never drift into another vendor. If a decision would break one of these, we don't take it - even if the retainer is bigger.
01SHIP
Ship over slides.
Every phase produces something running in production. Deliverables are code, dashboards and telemetry - never a deck to file away.
02AI-NATIVE
AI at the core, not bolted on.
The operating model assumes intelligence is cheap and always available. Every workflow we design starts from that premise, not from the legacy one.
03OWNER-OPERATED
You keep the keys.
Code, models, credentials - always yours. We hand it over on day one and every day after. No proprietary layer, no hostage retainer.
04SMALL TEAMS
Two to four operators.
Per engagement. No account managers, no proxies, no offshore relay. The people writing the code are the people in your standup.