Generic tools don't install themselves.
ChatGPT is a chat interface. Cursor is a code editor. Neither runs your client work, your casework, your campaigns, or your back office. You still do the work.
AI Lab — Taking engagements for Q3
We install AIthat does the work.
Bardo Labs designs, builds, and installs production AI inside agencies, firms, services, and operators — agent teams, knowledge graphs, media pipelines, adaptive coaches. Not tools to evaluate. An operating layer, deployed.
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Kickoff to deployed
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Built for teams that ship — not evaluate
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The gap
Three reasons AI is still a deck, not a running system.
Consultants hand you a deck and leave.
McKinsey writes the strategy. An agency writes the copy. A dev shop writes the code. Six months later you have three invoices and no running system.
Hiring a team takes a year. Yours is underwater.
Even if you have engineers, none of them has a quarter to spare on a greenfield AI build. An in-house AI team — VP, ML, data, design — is $1.2M before they've shipped anything.
Selected work
Five systems in production. One lab.
Every engagement starts with a business problem and ends with a shipped system that operates on its own. Not a prototype. Not a report.
01 · HomebaseVC · Legal · Consulting
Your firm's second brain — compounding with every document.
A private knowledge system installed on your own infrastructure. Every pitch deck, filing, memo, email, or URL makes the next query sharper — the system extracts every person, company, and asset, maps their relationships in a live 3D graph, and generates the deliverables your firm actually bills for: IC memos, case chronologies, account briefs, entity dossiers. Audit-grade, every claim cited.
- Deliverables
- Minutes, not days
- WTP
- $50–200k
- Hallucinations
- 0
homebase · entity graph
Deal Memo · v1
Deal Memo · Atlas
12 citationsExport ↗
Entities
1,284
Links
3,921
02 · CleoAgencies · Services · Brands
A full marketing team — research to reels.
Six agents coordinating across the full campaign lifecycle. Research pulls the market and competitor ads. Strategy writes the brief. Content produces 60+ assets a month. Media generates the images, videos, and reels. Ads ships campaigns, Growth scores the leads. Every cycle, the system reviews what worked and tunes the next wave. Replaces a $250k team — and gets sharper every week.
- Assets / mo
- 60+
- Leads / mo
- 1,000+
- Feedback
- Every cycle
cleo · agent hub
Campaign
Q3 Enterprise Launch
Live
Research
14 sources
Strategy
Brief drafted
Content
12 assets queued
Media
Reels rendering
Ads
Meta · 4 campaigns
Growth
1,204 scored
Meta Ads · Campaign 04
ROAS 3.4×
CTR
2.8%
CPL
$4.12
Leads
312
03 · FrequencyFunds · Corp-dev · Comms
War-game any decision before you make it.
A multi-agent simulation that forecasts how real stakeholders — analysts, journalists, regulators, short sellers — will react to a move before it's made. Hours instead of weeks. Simulated discourse grounded in live market data, delivered as a verdict with risk projections and sourced citations.
- Time to verdict
- Hours
- Stakeholder roles
- 48+
- Citations
- Every claim
frequency · simulation run
Scenario
Q4 Guidance Cut + Restructuring
T+72h
Hedge Fund Analyst@short_thesis_12
Guidance cut telegraphs Q4 miss. Setting up short at $184.
Tech Journalist@verge_beat
Breaking — restructuring memo leaked. Reading the filing now.
Policy Advisorgov.policy.desk
Anti-trust implications flagged. Brief submitted to committee.
Narrative heat · 72h projection
risk 0.74
0h24h48h72h
Verdict — Delay announcement 48h
04 · Bardo AgentsFounders · Small teams
Your personal AI workforce — in the app you already use.
A personalized roster of specialized agents — CTO, CMO, Ops, Engineering, whoever the job needs — embedded in Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, or any app your team already lives in. They ship code, review PRs, run campaigns, research markets, and escalate for approval. Sandboxed, installed on your infrastructure, with a Mission Control dashboard for audit, cost, and permissions.
- Runs in
- Telegram / WhatsApp / Discord
- Sandbox
- Per agent
- Audit
- Every action
bardo agents · mission control
#founder-room · telegram
live
CTO — ship the rate-limit fix and open a PR
agent.cto
On it. Isolating branch, running tests, opening PR.
3 tools · 41s
agent.cto
PR #284 opened. Tests green. Waiting for review.
pr #284
CMO — draft launch post for LinkedIn
agent.cmo
Drafted 3 variants. Leading with customer quote. Ready for your pick.
3 drafts · 22s
Type a message to an agent…
Agents
cto
2cmo
1ops
0eng
4Approvals
3
pending
05 · AliraB2C · Enterprise wellness
A coach that remembers you and adapts every week.
Personalized AI coaches matched to the user in a two-minute onboarding. Every conversation, breakthrough, and off-day is stored in a semantic memory layer — so every session picks up where the last one ended, and the daily plan adapts to your actual state. Delivered in voice or text, whenever you need it. Live at alira.life.
- Match
- 80–94%
- Onboarding
- 2 min
- Memory
- Every session
alira · coach match
Your match
3 coaches, ranked for you
2 min onboarding
94
ParkBest match
Neuroscience · Mindfulness
82
Jeanie
Executive presence
78
Harvey
Peak performance
Mood · 7 day
avg 6.9
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Capabilities
The lab, as a toolkit.
Every engagement pulls from the same six primitives, recombined to the problem. Not a feature list — the building blocks of what we ship.
Agent teams
Specialized agents with real tools — code, research, outreach, approvals — living in Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, or any app your team already uses.
Knowledge graphs
A second brain built from every document you touch. Entity-aware, compounding smarter with every ingest — people, companies, assets, all cited.
Simulation & forecasting
Multi-agent simulations that war-game decisions across stakeholder roles and narrative vectors.
Voice AI
STT + inference + TTS pipelines with parallel loading and sub-2s latency.
Grounded RAG
Compile-not-retrieve patterns that produce audit-grade outputs with provenance.
Ops dashboards
Mission Control — audit logs, approvals, cost metering, agent lifecycle — installed on your infra.
The engagement
Diagnose. Design. Deploy. Operate.
Four weeks to production. Ongoing as the system grows. No evaluations. No procurement cycles. One lab, one contract.
01Diagnose
Week 1Where AI earns its keep
A 30-minute audit mapped to real workflows. We surface the two or three places AI moves revenue, cost, or cycle time — and the places it won't.
02Design
Weeks 1–2One system, not ten features
A production architecture — models, agents, data flows, integrations, guardrails. Specified against your constraints, not a generic template.
03Deploy
Weeks 3–6Shipped, not prototyped
Built in our lab, installed in yours. Infrastructure, auth, monitoring, cost controls, runbooks. Handoff is a working system, not a slide deck.
04Operate
OngoingThe system gets better
We keep the system running — evals, fine-tunes, new agents, new integrations — as a retained lab function. You run the business. We run the AI.
Who we work with
Four verticals, one installation pattern.
We take on one engagement at a time, in the verticals where we've already shipped.
Finance
Asset managers, family offices, hedge funds
Institutional memory, deal intelligence, war-game scenario simulation, private entity graphs.
Systems shipped · Homebase · Frequency
SaaS & Agencies
B2B operators who need leverage without headcount
Marketing agents, lead generation, content pipelines, customer support agents, campaign execution.
Systems shipped · Cleo · Bardo Agents
Consulting & Legal
Knowledge-heavy firms with provenance requirements
Compile-not-retrieve knowledge systems, IC memos, briefing generation, audit-grade citations.
Systems shipped · Homebase
Consumer & Wellness
B2C experiences and enterprise HR deployments
Personalized voice coaching, adaptive practice plans, mood tracking, enterprise wellness at scale.
Systems shipped · Alira
On the name
Bardo — the Tibetan word for the passage between one state and the next. The in-between. The moment a company crosses from pre-AI to AI-nativeis a bardo. That's our work.
We don't sell tools. We don't write decks. We move companies through the passage and leave a working system on the other side.
Start here
One 30-minute call. No deck.
Bring the business problem you'd solve if you had a team. We'll tell you — honestly — whether AI belongs there, and what we'd ship in the first four weeks.
4–8 weeks
First deployment
Fixed scope
One system at a time
Full ownership
Installed on your infra