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Focused tools for small professional firms.

We talk to small firms about the admin that eats their week, then build simple software that handles it. One kind of firm at a time.

Now

Fee tracking for architecture firms

Fee by phase, time against it, and invoices in a few clicks, for practices of 1 to 20 people. Founding firms are joining now.

See what we're building

Next

Something else is on the drafting table

We're already talking to another kind of small firm about the admin that eats their week. More soon.

Want it to be yours? Tell us what drives you up the wall at hello@designlab.fyi.

Research first, then software

  1. TalkSit down with the firms who'd use it
  2. MapHow their week actually runs
  3. BuildThe smallest tool that fixes the worst part

Design Lab is a small design and research studio. Before we build anything, we sit down with the people who would use it and learn how they work today. Then we build the smallest tool that fixes the part they hate.

Run a small firm and have a process that drives you up the wall? Write to hello@designlab.fyi.