Labs

What we’re building

Not just advice — systems. A product in development and a research project taking design partners, each tested against real data and each publishing what it has measured, with the n, and nothing it has not.
ProductIn development

Data Control Tower

What failed, why, what is affected, and what to do next.

An operational-intelligence layer for enterprise data platforms. It sits across the integration framework and connects telemetry across systems — sources, jobs, orchestrations, targets — so a failure reads as one explanation chain instead of five dashboards.

Read the thinking

  1. Part 1Dashboards Don’t Run Data Platforms
  2. Part 2Why Did It Break? Root Cause Is a Graph Problem, Not an AI Problem
Research projectResearch project · taking design partners

Vindas

The US economy, seen through the eyes of the employer.

Employer-level workforce change detection: layoff notices filed under the WARN Act, SEC 8-K filings and public announcements, joined per employer and dated the day each became public. Most of these events never make the press.

37 days
median from a layoff notice to its effective date (notices first seen since 1 Oct 2026, n 574)
22 of 32
listed employers with a notice had no press coverage
The stack the Labs products run on — FastAPI, Postgres, React, Kubernetes with KEDA, DuckDB and MotherDuck, dbt, S3, Prometheus.The stack