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01 / YOUR OWN YOLO LABDWG. YL-001 · REV. C · SCALE 1:1, UNFORTUNATELY
FAFO AS A SERVICE / BY INVITATION ONLY
YOUR OWN YOLO LAB.we bring the hazard tape.
FIG. 1 · LAB IN A BOX, EXPLODED VIEWPOKE TO PACK
PART1 × LAB, INTERNALMATERIALCURIOSITY, PINEQTYA FEW A YEARTOLERANCE± FAFO
Every company now has to work like a labs team: find the almost-possible, build it by Friday, kill it by Monday if it’s dull. Most have a roadmap, a steering committee and an AI pilot that has been “nearly ready” since spring.
We set teams up to FAFO, professionally. Ask your lawyer what it stands for. We don’t have one.
We take on a few teams a year, between experiments. No pitch, no deck, no retainer. If yours sounds like a candidate, ask.
05Every failure gets an incident report and a glass case.
KIT 01BY INVITATION
SAFE-ISH
The Workshop
Bring your team. Leave with a prototype.
Half a day or a full one, at your office or somewhere with better coffee. Your people pair with AI agents on your real problems, and every team demos something working before the coffee goes cold. No slides about the future of work. The future of work turns up and does a demo.
We set up the lab: a small team with a real mandate, an idea intake that skips the committee, a weekly demo, agents allowed near real code, and kill criteria so nothing survives on vibes. Then we hand over the keys and the incident-report template.
We run the lab alongside your team for a quarter: shipping specimens, coaching the humans, tuning the agents and filing the incident reports. We leave when it runs without us. After that, containment is your problem.
14 specimens. One human, a swarm of agents, zero supervision. Imagine what your team does with actual office hours.
SIDE EFFECTS MAY INCLUDE: A BACKLOG THAT CLEARS ITSELF, A CFO WITH QUESTIONS, ONE FOX.
✳14 EXPERIMENTS/05 ESCAPED/08 CONTAINED (BARELY)/01 FLATLINED✳1 FOX UNACCOUNTED FOR
✳14 EXPERIMENTS/05 ESCAPED/08 CONTAINED (BARELY)/01 FLATLINED✳1 FOX UNACCOUNTED FOR
⚠ CONTAINMENT WING ⚠ AUTHORISED PERSONNEL ONLY ⚠ YOU ARE NOT AUTHORISED PERSONNEL ⚠ DO NOT FEED THE SPECIMENS ⚠ CONTAINMENT WING ⚠ AUTHORISED PERSONNEL ONLY ⚠ YOU ARE NOT AUTHORISED PERSONNEL ⚠ DO NOT FEED THE SPECIMENS ⚠
02 / THE CONTAINMENT WING14 SPECIMENS. ALL REAL. MOST OF THEM WORK.
THE SPECIMENS.
Every specimen below is a real thing that was really built. Names have been changed to protect the guilty. Poke them. They don’t like it.
CONTAINMENT INTEGRITY100%
ALL SPECIMENS ACCOUNTED FOR. FOR NOW.
CELL 01 / 14SWIPE ⇄
EXP. 001ALREADY ESCAPED
PARENTING ORACLE / CLASS: FERAL/001
TODDLERNET
Ninety-odd pages of carefully researched milestone guides for new parents. The babies skipped every one for the page where smashing the keyboard makes colours explode. Product-market fit, wrong market.
Subjects aged 0 to 3 bypassed all educational content and formed a keyboard-smashing majority. Monetisation was proposed, then vetoed by a sleep-deprived focus group of one. Science page traffic: a rounding error. Smash page traffic: biblical.
EXP. 002ALREADY ESCAPED
ARCADE FOR INFANTS / CLASS: UNLOSABLE/002
CABINET ZERO
A pixel-art arcade for babies with no scores, no timers and no game over. The pixel art isn't for the baby. It's aimed squarely at the parent's childhood.
The concept of GAME OVER was tried, found guilty and permanently removed from the cabinet. The piano only plays notes that sound good together, so every infant is technically a jazz musician. The first build weighed 39.5 MB and was rejected by the server for being frankly, a lot.
EXP. 003ALREADY ESCAPED
51 TINY TOOLS / CLASS: HOARDER/003
THE JUNK DRAWER
Fifty-one tiny tools that run in your browser and never phone home. Fifty are sensible. One designs custom outfits for electric cars, and it is beating the other fifty combined.
Tool #51 was built as a joke. It is now the most popular thing on the domain. The founder's own review of it, verbatim: "a bit confusing tbh … but working". The other fifty have stopped speaking to it.
EXP. 004ALREADY ESCAPED
AI ENDURANCE COACH / CLASS: OMNISCIENT/004
ZONE 2 OVERLORD
A personal AI coach on a rented server, wired straight into a sports watch and pointed at an Ironman. It reads every heartbeat and sleep stage, then decides how hard you are allowed to try. Mostly: zone 2. Forever. Used daily. Feared daily.
It has read every heartbeat since the first long run. It knows the race date to the minute. Rest days are negotiated, not granted. Last week it scheduled the taper without asking, then moved the race.
EXP. 005ALREADY ESCAPED
CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER, BOXED / CLASS: SOME ASSEMBLY/005
CPO IN A BOX
An AI chief product officer, shipped flat-packed. It drafts the strategy, tidies the inbox and writes the first version of everything. The human still makes the calls. The box is lobbying to change that.
580+ commits of self-improvement and 80+ memory files of lessons it refuses to learn twice. It has started drafting its own performance review. It rated itself exceeds expectations.
EXP. 006STABLE
VOCABULARY ARCHIPELAGO / CLASS: SENTIENT/006
WORDLAND
Six islands, 31 hand-drawn scenes and 778 words living in a zoomable world for kids aged one to five. Tap anything and it says its own name. We are slightly worried about what happens when nobody is tapping.
A formal scale review found 19 objects that were the wrong size for reality. The farm alone is 5,322 pixels wide. The review team is still not allowed to discuss object 19.
EXP. 007STABLE
SELF-ASSEMBLING BOOKS / CLASS: UNFOLDING/007
POP-UP PROTOCOL
Storybooks where the pages fold up into tiny 3D stages and a narrator reads along word by word. One of the books failed its quality review and has not been seen since.
The Three Little Pigs passed inspection. The Tortoise and the Hare did not, and the hare would like it noted that it finished the review first. 252 words were recorded by hand. Nobody is okay.
EXP. 008STABLE
HARDWARE COMPANION / CLASS: INFINITE/008
WHY-BOT
A small, kind, endlessly patient machine for kids aged two to five, designed to answer "why?". It's still on the drawing board and already losing the argument.
Test subject asked why the sky is blue. Machine explained light scattering. Subject asked why. Machine explained wavelengths. Subject asked why. Machine is currently explaining the Big Bang and has requested a lie-down.
EXP. 009STABLE
PHONICS COMBAT / CLASS: WILD/009
FERAL ALPHABET
A creature-catching game where wild letters attack and the only weapon is pronouncing them correctly. Built for exactly one five-year-old, who now considers herself the final boss.
The image generator kept painting fake see-through checkerboards behind every monster. The lab fought back with a script named nuke-gray.py. It lost. The solution: paint every creature on radioactive green and cut it out like a 1990s weather forecast.
EXP. 010STABLE
WOODLAND MOTORSPORT / CLASS: AT LARGE/010
LEGALLY DISTINCT KARTS
An original family kart racer for the browser: eight animal drivers, three circuits and power-ups like Rocket Juice and Party Pop. Every character, track and item is our own. The fox insists.
The project folder's original name has been removed on legal advice. We do not have legal advice. Speed classes: Sunday Drive, Let's Race and Full Send. The lead driver is a fox with no recorded use of brakes.
EXP. 011STABLE
NOCTURNAL COW DEFENCE / CLASS: HOSTILE/011
OPERATION MOAT
Farm by day. By night, small toothy things called Gnawlings come for your cows. The simulation runs on whole numbers only, because decimals were deemed a security risk.
179 automated tests prove one thing: walls are decorative. Only the moat works. Season one was mathematically unwinnable until we doubled the starting money. Launch is blocked on a single item: naming a brave playtester. Could be you.
EXP. 012STABLE
ON-DEVICE AI / CLASS: OPINIONATED/012
SADDLE JUDGE 3000
Film yourself on an indoor bike trainer for 18 seconds. An AI on your phone, not in the cloud, measures every joint angle and quietly forms opinions about your knees.
Product rules forbid the machine from promising a perfect fit or injury prevention. They do not forbid it from having feelings about your saddle height. No account, no upload, no backend: nobody else will ever know what it thinks of you.
EXP. 013STABLE
BOOKING SOFTWARE / CLASS: SELF-GOVERNING/013
UNSUPERVISED CRM
Bookings, check-ins, memberships and email for a real family space, built to evict an expensive incumbent. Written, reviewed and merged by a swarm of AI agents, gated by an unforgiving test suite. Humans reviewed zero lines.
The founder does not review code. The agents own the entire merge loop. One agent failed to verify a deploy six times in one afternoon and was spoken to. 329 commits later, the agents have formed what appears to be a union.
EXP. 014NO VITAL SIGNS
GIVEAWAY ENGINE / CLASS: FLATLINED/014
THE CRICKET MACHINE
A fully working giveaway and raffle platform for small businesses, with weighted draws, referral chains and a bot trap of genuine brilliance. It works perfectly. The winner, every single time, is nobody.
Launched. Worked. Nobody came. The honeypot caught plenty of bots. Nothing caught customers. Kept on display as proof of the lab's only rule: you find out by shipping.
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EXP. 015 / CONTAINMENT CELL: EMPTY
Your bad idea goes here.
Cell 015 is vacant. Current neighbours include a farm defended by a moat and a piano that can’t play wrong notes. The bar is on the floor. Step over it.
LAB ALERT / CODE: EVERYTHINGTOTAL CONTAINMENT FAILURE.All 14 specimens are loose. Honestly, that’s on you.
03 / A COMPLETELY REASONABLE MANIFESTOEST. ON A WHIM. SUPERVISED BY NOBODY.
LESS “SOMEDAY.” MORE let’s try.
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YOLO Labs is an independent experimental product studio. Headcount: one human, a swarm of AI agents with a concerning amount of autonomy, and one fox with no brakes.
We build learning worlds for tiny humans, games you cannot lose, tools that never phone home, an AI that judges your saddle and, occasionally, something that flops so beautifully we put it in a glass case. Most of it ships. The rest is being held for observation.
“Wouldn’t it be weird if…” (1:04 a.m., phone at 3%)
02 / MAKE
Build it before the sensible part of the brain wakes up.
03 / RELEASE
Let it out of containment. File the incident report.
04 / THE IDEA INTAKE DEPARTMENTALL LEVELS OF WEIRD ACCEPTED
GOT A BAD IDEA?
Perfect. We’re listening.
A strange collaboration, an impossible product, a workshop for a team that wants to FAFO, or something you can’t stop thinking about. Put it in the machine. It doesn’t judge. Much.