SynthLab is a remote-first studio. We design and ship owned, AI-native systems — websites, automation, and intelligence — that run in production, not in a slide deck.
A studio built around one conviction: the gap between how a business operates and how it could operate is mostly a tooling problem — and it's solvable.
Most businesses run 2010-era operations on 2026 budgets. Leads wait on a person to follow up. Content stalls until someone has a free afternoon. Systems don't talk to each other, so the same data gets re-typed three times a week. None of that is a strategy problem — it's an infrastructure problem that never got fixed because fixing it used to be expensive.
SynthLab closes that gap with owned, AI-native systems. We don't sell you a subscription seat in someone else's platform. We design the exact stack your business needs — site, automation, data, and intelligence — engineer it on a modern foundation, deploy it to production, and hand you the source code and the keys. Intelligence isn't a feature we bolt on at the end; it's wired in from the first architecture decision.
The result is a business that operates more like a software company: fast, observable, and running whether or not anyone's watching. That's the operating layer — and building it well is the whole job.
Four commitments that shape every build — and the reason the work outlasts the engagement.
Source code, hosting, and documentation are handed over at the end of every project. No proprietary lock-in, no hostage data — if you ever leave, you leave with the whole system.
Projects are scoped to concrete outcomes and shipped to production — not parked in open-ended retainers. You know what you're getting, what it costs, and when it goes live.
Intelligence is designed into the architecture from the start, not stapled to a finished product. The system reasons, routes, and adapts because it was built to — not because a chatbot was added later.
Sub-second loads, observable pipelines, and secure-by-design infrastructure are the baseline, not the upsell. Performance and reliability are engineered in, never traded away.
Every system we build sits on the same foundation — five owned layers, from the interface a customer touches down to the infrastructure that runs unattended.
The surface your customers actually touch — fast, accessible, and built to convert, with conversational AI woven into the experience rather than hidden behind a widget.
Static/edge frameworks · CDNThe thinking layer — language models orchestrated into agents that reason over your data, make decisions, and route work to the right place without a human in every loop.
Anthropic Claude · RAG · vector DBsWhere raw inputs become structured, queryable signal — clean pipelines and analytics that give the intelligence layer something real to reason about.
Python · Pandas · PostgreSQLThe connective tissue — a mesh of webhooks and workflows that fires the right action across every system the moment something changes, so nothing waits on a manual hand-off.
n8n · Make · cron agentsThe foundation everything stands on — cloud-native, secure, and observable infrastructure that runs unattended at high uptime and scales without a rebuild.
Netlify/Vercel · Cloudflare · CI/CDFounder & Principal Engineer
SynthLab Co is led by Eann Gatuna, founder and principal engineer. He builds intelligent systems for businesses that want to operate like software companies — owned, AI-native infrastructure engineered end to end, then handed over.