Design and build.
We take a product from idea or prototype rig to something real users can depend on.
Solen Labs
Systems your business can run on.
An engineering studio for software and systems that have to keep working. We've been shipping production systems since 2015, and building with serious AI tooling since it arrived.
- Est. 2015
- Based in Los Angeles
- Hours Pacific time
What we do.
We've shipped everything from multi-location logistics platforms to robotics simulators and embedded hardware deployments. Our systems have run company-wide operations, ridden in fleet vehicles, and lately learned to fly.
Embedded engineering.
We join your engineers and own a piece of the system from design through delivery.
Technical direction.
We help you choose sound boundaries, weigh the trade-offs, and make the calls that are hard to reverse.
Codebase rescue.
We take codebases that grew faster than their foundations and make them safe to build on again.
We don't stop at software.
From cloud platforms to microcontrollers, and most of what sits between them.
Some of it runs a company, and some runs on a chip smaller than a fingernail.
Architecture comes first.
We build with AI agents every day, and we've rebuilt the whole workflow around them. The speed is real. It requires discipline and the right architecture.
We shape each system so agents can work on it well, with clear boundaries and explicit states, so mistakes surface early.
Over a decade of systems, most of them under NDA.
Since 2015 we've designed and built systems for venture-backed startups and established operating companies: customer-facing products, internal platforms, data infrastructure, and the integrations between them.
Nearly all of it is proprietary, and critical systems rarely make it onto portfolio pages. We'd rather walk you through the relevant work in conversation.
No layers.
You work directly with the engineer responsible for your system: one person accountable from architecture to production, with trusted specialists brought in when the work calls for it.
Have something to build?
Tell us what you're building and where it stands.