Laboratory
Pioneering research for digital liberation.
Big Tech builds walled gardens to keep you trapped and dependent.
We perform the advanced research to ship competitive local-first tools designed to give you complete control over your digital life.
They build walls, we build ladders.
We build the tools.
You own the power.
Smitz Laboratories is an AI research lab building software for digital sovereignty.
Our public work is three tools. AI Workforce extends the staff you have. Syllamate builds the course from what you already teach, and the course stays yours. Tabula keeps the mailbox yours. The platform does not get to keep any of the three.
A decade spent operating at the intersection of AI and markets taught us a clear lesson: Big Tech eventually extracts everything it can from everything it touches—monetizing your data, gating your tools, and taxing your digital life.
We build the counterweight. First through sovereign infrastructure—edge nodes, private compute, and catalogs that don’t require a platform landlord. Now as products built to defend users who refuse to be packaged and sold.
We keep the research in the lab.
We put the capability in your hands.
Position
Mystery.
Mastery.
Mettle.
01
Mystery
Internal method stays internal. No roadmap theater. No research blog that pre-announces the next three years.
02
Mastery
A decade on the boundary of AI and markets. Systems first, then products to defend the users who refuse to become a big tech product.
03
Mettle
Big Tech extracts from the audience they've already captured. We ship the tools the rest of us need to compete. If you know Google isn't doing your work for free, you are in the right place.