Product engineering.
Zero to shipped. We take products from idea or rough prototype to something real users depend on.
Solen Labs
Software your business can run on.
An engineering studio for software that has to keep working. We've been shipping production systems since 2015, and building with serious AI tooling since it arrived.
What we do.
We've shipped everything from company-wide operations platforms to embedded hardware systems. The range is wide, but the standard is always production.
Embedded engineering.
We drop into your team, pick up the backlog, and ship. Senior judgment from day one, no ramp-up theater.
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.
AI made us faster. Experience makes it count.
We build with the current generation of AI coding tools every day, and we've rebuilt the whole workflow around them. The speed is real. So is the wreckage when nobody senior is holding the tools.
Ten years of production systems taught us what actually kills software: unclear boundaries, silent failures, decisions nobody wrote down. That judgment is the product. The tooling just compounds it.
Ten years of work we mostly can't show you.
Since 2015 we've designed and built software for venture-backed startups and established operating companies: customer-facing products, internal platforms, data-heavy systems, and integrations between things that were never meant to talk to each other.
Nearly all of it is proprietary, and much of it sits behind NDAs. That's the nature of the work: the more critical the system, the less likely it is to appear on a portfolio page. We're glad to walk through relevant experience in private.
No layers.
You work directly with the engineer building your software: one person accountable from architecture to production, with trusted specialists brought in when the work calls for it.
Have something to ship?
Tell us what you're building and where it stands.