A few things we've built.

Some of the work, and what changed because of it. We start with one decision worth getting right, then build the thing that fixes it.

01 — FEATURED · TEZLAB

TezLab made sense of what your car was trying to tell you.

CLIENT
TezLab
SECTOR
Consumer · Automotive
ROLE
Data model · Product
STATUS
In production

Your Tesla or Rivian records everything — every mile, every charge, every kilowatt. TezLab is the #1-rated companion app for both, running on millions of cars, that turns all of it into a few answers people actually care about. We helped build the part that does the figuring.

THE CHALLENGE

A car throws off a huge amount of data, and almost none of it means anything to the person driving. Range, charging cost, efficiency — it's all in there, but raw telemetry never answered the one thing owners actually ask: how am I doing? And "battery health" is the question everyone wants answered honestly — Tesla doesn't publish it, and no app can actually calculate it from what the car exposes. We had to build something useful without pretending to know more than we did.

“We weren't trying to show you everything. We were trying to show you the one thing you'd actually want to know.”
THE FOCUS
WHAT WE BUILT

We built the Car Report — a single Car Score that turns years of driving into one number, benchmarked against similar vehicles. Underneath it: a Range Performance trend that tracks what the battery actually delivers over time, a Drive Details view that scores every trip's efficiency against the fleet, and a charging map that learns your routine instead of asking you to build one. The data was the easy part. The hard part was deciding which few numbers were worth showing — and being straight about the ones we couldn't prove.

THE APP, TODAY

Most of what the car reports never made it in. These three screens are what did.

TezLab's Car Report screen showing a Car Score of Great, a Range Report, and a Charging Profile breakdown
CAR REPORT — ONE SCORE, YEARS OF DATA
TezLab's Drive Details screen showing a route map and 87% overall efficiency
DRIVE DETAILS — EVERY TRIP, SCORED
TezLab's Drives & Charges screen showing a trip log with route map and battery percentages
DRIVES & CHARGES — THE FULL LOG
4.7★ rated
Across the App Store and Google Play. EV owners keep recommending it to each other.
4.2B+ miles
Logged by TezLab members and counting, across Tesla and Rivian.
79% avg efficiency
The community number every member is quietly trying to beat.
A smart TV glowing in a dark living room
02 — PERPLEXITY × SAMSUNG · LIVING ROOM

Perplexity, in 50 million living rooms.

A TV has no keyboard and a remote with five buttons. So we built it voice-first: press one button, ask out loud, watch the answer stream in. It passed Samsung's QA on the first major submission and shipped to their Smart TV install base worldwide.

12 weeks → 50M+ TVs Read →
03 — A+E NETWORKS · DATA QA

Watching 212 data feeds so nobody has to.

A+E measures its shows across every platform they air on — and the data arrives in 212 separate feeds, some daily, some monthly, some quietly stale. We cataloged all of them, mapped the seven entities everything hangs on, and designed the QA agent that checks the data before anyone builds a decision on it.

212 feeds · 7 canonical entities Read →
A lone survivor walking an overgrown highway of abandoned cars at dusk
04 — STEERING HOUSE · FINANCE OPS

Construction books that reconcile themselves.

Steering House builds $5–7M townhouse projects, and the numbers lived in two systems that didn't talk. Now QuickBooks syncs to per-project sheets every hour — 57,000 transactions and counting — and we're modeling how each cost code actually spends, so an overrun gets flagged weeks before it becomes a client conversation.

57,829 transactions · synced hourly Read →
05 — FOUNTAIN CREEK · FIELD OPS

Getting a whole field operation onto one screen.

Crews, sensors, and spreadsheets spread across miles of watershed. We pulled the field readings into one view, so a call that took a week of phone tag now takes an afternoon.

A week of calls → an afternoon
06 — DISTILL · RESEARCH

Straight answers out of messy documents.

A wall of PDFs nobody had time to read. We made it something you can just ask a question — and trust the answer.

07 — UPPER HAND · OPERATIONS

Less time on the busywork, more on the people.

The day was full of small, repetitive tasks. We took the ones a machine should handle, so the team could spend the time where it mattered.

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