The Lab
Real work for new builders and early founders, under people who have shipped. The door opens soon.
Held by Mark Jim Group · one note when the doors open, nothing else.
A working studio you learn inside.
Not a course and not an incubator. The Lab runs on the studio’s own terms: real commissioned work, senior review, and a short path from idea to launch.
The studio takes it
Architecture and senior review.
Commissioned work
A client brings real work.
A builder ships it
Their name is on the work.
Both leave with more
Software delivered. A builder connected.
The same cycle serves both sides. A client’s project is what gives a new builder their first real credit.
You leave with shipped work.
Real commissioned projects, with your name on the work.
Your work is reviewed by someone who has shipped their own.
You finish with work you can point at, not a certificate.
You get the studio, not a subcontractor.
The studio takes it on directly. Nothing is outsourced.
Senior architecture and review, whoever is writing the code.
Your project is what gives a new builder their first real credit.
Apprenticeship
New builders ship real, commissioned work under senior guidance.
Founder support
Founders are taken from first commit to first customer, with a mentor in the loop.
Incubation
Early-stage ideas get the studio’s hands: architecture, build, and review.
You will spend most of it alone with a hard problem.
That part never changes. What changes is who reads it when you are done.
We’re getting it ready.
Opening the Lab costs real money before it earns any: a room to work in, senior people whose time is not free, and client projects lined up so that a builder starts on something that ships. We’re working through that list in public.
- A room in TorontoIn progress
Somewhere for a cohort to actually assemble, and to run sessions open to people outside it.
- Mentors committedNot yet
People who have built and run their own products, with time actually set aside for this.
- Client work lined upNot yet
Real commissioned projects waiting, so a builder starts on something that ships rather than an exercise.
- The first cohort coveredNot yet
Builders are paid for the work they ship. That has to be funded before anyone is invited.
- Doors openNot yet
The first cohort starts.
Every commissioned build the studio takes on moves this along. Join the list above and we’ll write once, when the doors open.
The first real project is the hardest one to get.