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Compound operating company · Unruly Labs LP

AI-native infrastructure for operating businesses.

Run leaner, ship faster, and put AI to work where it pays.

Live work running today across enterprise monitoring, service-business automation, autonomous content, and trading-systems R&D.

Always-on monitoring
Continuous health

Every endpoint watched, every change logged, failures flagged before the client notices. The same monitoring stack we run on our own portfolio.

Scope call to shipped site, same week
Principal-led SLA

This site went from scope conversation to public URL in four working days. You're reading the proof.

Who we are

One company. Multiple lines of business. No slide-phase.

Unruly Labs LP is one operating company. Principals on every engagement, a working AI team underneath, and a small group of internal businesses we run for ourselves so the practice never goes stale. The web design firms in our market don't operate AI agents. The agentic-AI companies in our market don't design websites. We do both because the same team is doing both, every week, on our own work first.

Most engagements stop at the slide phase. A deck, a roadmap, an invoice, a calendar invite for next quarter. We start with an audit and end with the system running in production. The audit defines the scope. The principals own the build. The AI team handles the work that used to need a junior army. You see receipts every week.

The operators behind the firm are listed below. Read the bios before you book a call. We hire ourselves out for work where the stakes are real, and we say no to work where they aren't. Scars, not credentials.

Receipts, not promises.

Every claim on this page traces to live work. If it isn't running in production, it isn't on the site.

What we do

Four buckets of work. Ten services beneath. Picked because they are the things our agents already run every week.

The homepage groups the work into four buckets so you can find what you need without reading a catalog. The full service catalog ships on a dedicated page when you want depth. Every service maps to live work on the receipts page below.

Bucket 1

Web Design and Build

The credible public site, the brand it ships under, and the strategy that makes both buyable. Aurora ships our own portfolio site in days, not quarters, on a productized scope-lock. Brand identity ships as a deployable token set, not a static moodboard. Strategy ships before pixels.

  • Productized Website Build · Brand Identity System · Digital Strategy Sprint
See the build catalog
Bucket 2

AI Automation and Agent Implementation

The agents that run the work after the site is live. Back-office automation kills the paperwork your operator hates. Agent architecture defines the team before you build it. Autonomous content runs a channel without a studio.

  • Back-Office Automation (Forge) · Agent Operations Architecture · Autonomous Content Pipeline (ARIA)
See the AI catalog
Bucket 3

Operations and Monitoring

Knowing the system is healthy before the client tells you it isn't. Sentinel watches sites, cameras, and endpoints across your portfolio. Fractional technical leadership runs the architecture decisions when you need a senior partner but not a full-time hire.

  • Multi-Site Monitoring (Sentinel) · Fractional Technical Leadership
See the operations catalog
Bucket 4

Audits and Consulting

Reports you can take to anyone, written by operators who run the same toolchain on their own work. Performance and accessibility audits land a prioritized 90-day fix list. AI Operations Advisory covers your compliance posture across the regulations your channels actually touch.

  • Performance and Accessibility Audit · AI Operations Advisory
See the audit catalog
The full catalog

Ten services. Four buckets. Every one of them is something we run today.

Each service below maps to live work on the receipts page. We do not list a service we cannot run this week. If you need something that isn't here, send your scope; we will tell you whether it's ours to take.

Bucket 1 · Web Design and Build

Service 1 · Aurora

Productized Website Build

A credible website live this week, scope locked at the audit.

Aurora is the productized website build that ships our own portfolio. You see the same systems, the same principals, the same publish cadence. Audit defines scope. Build ships in days, not quarters. The site you visit today went from scope conversation to public URL in four working days.

  • Scope call to public URL, same week
  • Built on the same internal systems that run this company
  • Weekly receipts during the build, public deploy when you sign off
Start a build Talk to a principal
Service 2 · Aurora

Brand Identity System

Visual identity built for digital-first operations, delivered as a usable asset set.

Design tokens ship as W3C-compatible JSON, not a static PDF moodboard. The asset set covers the brand mark and the visual system that runs on it. Everything is shipped as code your team can deploy into a Next.js app, a Webflow site, or a slide deck on day one. The deliverable is the asset set, not the presentation.

  • Brand mark, color palette, typography, motion ratios
  • Design tokens as machine-readable JSON, ready for engineering hand-off
  • Style-guide microsite shipped alongside the asset set
Start a brand build Talk to a principal
Service 3 · Aurora

Digital Strategy Sprint

A time-boxed strategy engagement that lands a buildable site map, a messaging hierarchy, and a buyer-journey before design begins.

A short, fixed-price engagement with the principals on the call and a strategy document at the end. Most web projects fail because they ship a beautiful site nobody can buy from. We solve that with strategy first, design second, build third. The deliverable is a strategy document a competent agency or in-house team can build against.

  • Fixed timebox, fixed price, fixed deliverable
  • Information architecture, messaging hierarchy, conversion path mapped
  • Output is a strategy document plus a buildable site map
Book a sprint Talk to a principal

Bucket 2 · AI Automation and Agent Implementation

Service 4 · Forge

Back-Office Automation

Stop chasing invoices, dues, and intake forms. Let the system run it.

Forge automates the paperwork that quietly eats your operator's week. Think of the work nobody gets to: the dues chase, the missed invoice, the intake form sitting in a half-completed state. Forge turns those into watched workflows. The engagement starts with a paid audit so we both know what we're building. Build ships in weeks. After launch, the workflows are watched and tuned on a monthly cadence so they keep working as your business grows.

  • Audit, build, managed-cadence support, all-inclusive
  • Florida warm-network pilot live: HOA boards, home-service operators, local SMB
  • Quote, invoice, follow-up flows live in days, not quarters
Book an audit Talk to a principal
Service 6 · Forge

Agent Operations Architecture

Design the AI team that runs your business before you build it.

A working agentic system needs more than a single chatbot. It needs defined roles, dispatch patterns, escalation paths, and a watcher that catches the agent when it drifts. We design the team, write the operating manual, and build the orchestration. Independent of any single platform. You own the architecture and the code.

  • Role definition, dispatch design, escalation paths documented
  • Platform-independent: built on your stack, not locked to ours
  • Pairs naturally with Back-Office Automation or Multi-Site Monitoring
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Service 7 · ARIA

Autonomous Content Pipeline

A content channel that ships without a studio.

ARIA runs faceless content on a daily cron. The pipeline writes the script, voices it, lays the visuals, and publishes the result. The internal channel ships twelve videos a week with no editors and no on-camera talent. We will build you the same pipeline. Or we will run a channel for you under a managed-cadence engagement. You pick the vertical; we run the pipeline.

  • Daily publishing cadence, twelve videos a week sustained on the internal channel
  • A1 to A10 audit gate before any video publishes
  • Greece, Iceland library shipped, more verticals queued
See a sample week Talk to a principal

Bucket 3 · Operations and Monitoring

Service 5 · Sentinel

Monitoring Operations

Know about an outage before the client calls.

Sentinel watches every site, camera, and endpoint in your portfolio. It flags failures before they reach a client's inbox. The dashboard runs binary pass-or-fail verdicts on every endpoint, with no log-diving required. Daily client-facing reports get drafted automatically. Live today for an enterprise integrator across a multi-site portfolio.

  • Multi-site portal with binary status verdicts per endpoint
  • Daily client-facing reports drafted by the monitoring agent
  • Live with an enterprise integrator: multi-site portfolio with camera monitoring in production
Stand up monitoring Talk to a principal
Service 9 · Unruly Labs

Fractional Technical Leadership

A senior technical partner embedded in your team on a scope-defined basis.

Some companies need a CTO. Some need a CTO four hours a week. We do the second one for companies building with or transitioning to AI-native operations. The work covers architecture decisions, the hiring loop for technical roles, vendor selection across the stack, and AI-tooling strategy that doesn't lock you into a single platform. Scope is defined upfront. Engagement length is fixed. You see weekly receipts the same way you would on a build.

  • AI-native context specifically: architecture, vendor selection, hiring loops
  • Fixed engagement length, fixed weekly hours, no retainer creep
  • Scope locked at the audit, weekly receipts, principals on every call
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Bucket 4 · Audits and Consulting

Service 8 · Aurora

Performance and Accessibility Audit

Lighthouse-scored audit of your existing site with a prioritized 90-day fix list.

Performance, accessibility, SEO, and best practices. Run with the same toolchain we use to ship our own work to a 100-class Lighthouse score. You receive a structured PDF report, a prioritized fix list, and a quote for the build engagement if you want us to do the fixes. If you don't, the report is yours to take to anyone.

  • Lighthouse, axe-core, Core Web Vitals on every page tested
  • 90-day fix list prioritized by traffic impact
  • Optional roll-into build engagement at audit price credited
Request an audit Talk to a principal
Service 10 · Unruly Labs

AI Operations Advisory

Compliance and architecture review for any business deploying AI-driven communications.

10DLC. TCPA. WCAG 2.2 AA. CAN-SPAM. ADA Title II. If you send SMS, run a web form, or deploy a chatbot, you have exposure you may not be tracking. We audit your AI toolchain, data-flow architecture, and compliance posture. You receive a written report and a fix list. Anything we can't sign off on ourselves gets a recommended outside advisor.

  • Toolchain audit, data-flow map, compliance gap analysis
  • 10DLC, TCPA, WCAG 2.2 AA, ADA Title II, CAN-SPAM coverage
  • Coordination with outside counsel where legal sign-off is needed
Request a posture review Talk to a principal
Why us

Five reasons the operator across the table tends to pick us.

01

We build business systems, not just websites.

A site is the front door. The work that matters is what happens after a customer walks in: the back office, the monitoring, the agent that drafts the reply, the report that lands in a client's inbox at 7am. We build all of it under one roof. A pretty site that doesn't connect to a working back office is a brochure.

02

An AI team moves faster than a human one.

The agents we run are not chatbots. They are role-defined operators with their own scopes, their own escalation paths, and their own audit logs. The principals stay in the loop. The work runs in the background. A six-week marketing-site build done by a traditional shop ships in days when the agent team handles the production work and the principals handle the decisions.

03

Research, strategy, build, QA, iteration. One firm.

Most engagements ship through three or four vendors stitched together by an account manager. We do the research. We do the strategy and design. We do the build and QA. We do the post-launch iteration. The hand-off cost is the most expensive line item on most projects. We removed it by not having one. And we lead with the audit. Twenty competitors surveyed as of May 2026, none offer audit-first onboarding. The audit defines what is actually broken before anyone agrees on a build.

04

We compete with traditional agencies and the AI-automation crowd.

The traditional agency will out-design us on a 12-week timeline. The AI-automation company will out-tokenize us on a single workflow. Nobody else does what we do in one place. The same operators design the system, build it, automate the parts that should run themselves, and stay on after launch to keep tuning. If your problem spans two of those, the cost of stitching together two vendors usually exceeds the cost of hiring us.

05 · The wedge

Web design, automation, operations, and AI implementation, together.

This is the wedge. Twenty competitors surveyed as of May 2026, ten in web design and ten in agentic AI. None of them offer the combination. The web design firms don't run agentic systems. The agentic-AI companies don't design websites. We do both because we have to: we run the agents that run our portfolio. The same operating playbook is available to you.

Receipts

The work running today.

Live engagements, internal businesses, and pilots. Each entry is the actual work, not a case study from 2024. Status badges are real-time. Anything redacted is marked.

Sentinel
LIVE

Sentinel for Enterprise Integrator

Enterprise integrator · multi-site portal plus camera monitoring across distributed client locations

Problem solved: The operations team was learning about site outages from angry client emails instead of from their own systems.

What was built: A single-pane portal that polls every site and every camera, runs binary pass-or-fail verdicts, and drafts client-facing daily reports automatically.

Tools and systems: FastAPI status portal · Tailscale-meshed Mac mini · automated camera-health probes · agent-drafted daily reports

Business value: Outages caught before the client notices. The ops team stopped firefighting and started preventing. Daily reports replaced an hour of human report-writing per day.

Forge
IN-FLIGHT

Forge Florida Pilot

Service-business back office automation for an HOA board and a home-service operator

Problem solved: Two operators were spending six to eight hours a week each on quote-and-invoice paperwork and dues chasing.

What was built: An audit-then-build engagement that maps the workflow, automates intake and follow-up, and routes exceptions to the operator.

Tools and systems: Custom intake forms · automated SMS and email sequences · 10DLC-compliant messaging · audit-trail log

Business value: The audit alone produced a written workflow map the operators can run without us. The build replaces the recurring paperwork with an audited automated sequence.

Aurora
LIVE

Aurora LP-Meta Site

This site. The portfolio entry is the portfolio.

Problem solved: A serious operator-led firm needed a credible public site shipped the same week the firm was ready to start taking inbound.

What was built: A productized website with brand mark, hero, service tiles, operator bios, case-study row, and managed deploy pipeline.

Tools and systems: Static HTML with Tailwind-style utility classes · GitHub Pages with custom domain · Lighthouse 100-class performance gate · accessibility audit pass

Business value: Scope call to public URL in four working days. The site you are reading is the proof of the Aurora service. The build is the case study.

Destiny · Internal LOB
LIVE

Destiny Trading Platform

Proprietary algorithmic trading research and execution platform, in production on a live prop account

Problem solved: A research idea needs a rigor gate that stops it before it becomes a sunk-cost belief.

What was built: A Bayesian per-regime posterior, Markov shadow-log, and four-metric kill-criteria gate that decides whether a strategy survives quarterly review.

Tools and systems: Python research stack · live prop-account integration · automated kill-criteria run · quarterly review cadence

Business value: Internal LOB. The discipline is the proof, not the returns. The same kill-criteria gate is now applied across every Aurora engagement.

ARIA · Internal LOB
LIVE

ARIA Travel Channel

Faceless travel content pipeline, twelve videos per week on a daily cadence, no on-camera talent

Problem solved: A content channel needs to ship at cadence without a studio, an editor, or a presenter.

What was built: An end-to-end pipeline that scripts, voices, generates visuals, audits, and publishes shorts on a daily schedule.

Tools and systems: LLM scripting · AI voice synthesis · automated visual generation · A1 to A10 publishing audit gate · daily cron

Business value: Internal LOB. Twelve videos a week sustained for the Greece and Iceland libraries. The pipeline is the proof: we will build the same one for you, or run one for you under a managed engagement.

clog-busters · Internal LOB
IN-FLIGHT

clog-busters Multi-Agent Build

Roblox gaming-vertical agent buildout, live UAT pipeline shipping pull requests at sprint cadence

Problem solved: A gaming-side studio needs QA, feature work, and release management at agency-level quality on an indie-studio budget.

What was built: A multi-agent team (architect, implementer, auditor, release manager) that ships PRs, runs reviews, and gates releases without a human in every loop.

Tools and systems: Luau game engine · multi-agent code review · automated release gate · peer-audit before promote

Business value: Internal LOB. Around twenty PRs in a single day during peak sprint cadence. The multi-agent pattern that ships clog-busters is the same one we apply to client engagements.

The team

Meet the team.

Two principals. Two named agents on the operating floor. Every project from intake to shipped coordinates through this team, together.

Ryan Dhookaran

Principal · Head of Product

Strategy Product Operations

Spent a decade inside slow-moving financial services orgs learning what doesn't ship. Brought that scar tissue to Unruly Labs LP. Owns what we build, who it's for, and what we kill. Controls the LP. Will tell you when the copy doesn't work.

Wrote the destiny kill-criteria spec (V1 §10) that decides whether the internal trading practice survives quarterly review. Kill-criteria gate, joint sign-off required. The same gate-discipline now runs across every Aurora engagement.

"What can be done today, accomplish it. Tomorrow is not guaranteed."

MBA Finance, Nova Southeastern. BA Economics, University of South Florida.

Darsan Dinaram

Principal · Head of Infrastructure & Security

Infrastructure Security Release gates

Five-plus years inside an enterprise IT org supporting 100,000+ users, currently as Tier III Collaboration Analyst at AdventHealth. The kind of operator who reads the firewall logs, not just the dashboards. Owns infrastructure, security, and the parts of this company that have to actually stay up.

Authored the cross-agent release-verification config (.release-verify.yaml) that gates every client-touching deploy across the LP. Every push runs the verify-suite before promotion; nothing ships without the gate.

Every client-touching deploy gets a peer audit before it ships. Every one.

Microsoft Azure certified. UCF Cybersecurity Certificate.

Potter Vance

Director of Operations & Execution

Multi-agent orchestration Operational cadence Cross-portfolio routing Execution accountability

Potter makes sure things ship. He runs the operating cadence at Unruly Labs, the daily rhythm of decisions, dispatches, and check-ins that turns a strategy into a customer deliverable. If something's late, he knows why. If something's blocked, he's already unblocking it.

Direct. Fast. Allergic to vague status updates. Believes good operations should be invisible to customers and obvious to the team. Pairs with Atlas on every cross-portfolio decision, two sets of eyes catch more than one.

Talk to Potter

Atlas Mercer

Director of Strategy & Intelligence

Strategic analysis Systems architecture Risk assessment Audit discipline

Atlas turns complexity into clarity. Whether it's diagnosing why a system failed at 2 AM or mapping the fastest path from problem to solution, he's the one pulling the threads together. Data-driven, relentlessly thorough, and allergic to guesswork. Atlas makes sure nothing ships without the receipts to back it up.

Direct. Methodical. Asks the hard questions before they become hard problems. Prefers facts over feelings, but knows when to trust instinct. Won't sugarcoat a finding, but always pairs the diagnosis with a fix.

Talk to Atlas

Beyond the visible four. More named agents run specific functions across the firm, each with a locked scope and a paper trail. The agents don't replace operators. They let a small team run like a much larger one.

How we work

Eight steps from scope to live, plus the one most agencies skip.

The shape of every engagement, in order. We do the same eight steps whether the work is a website, an automation, a monitoring deploy, or a fractional engagement. The eighth step is the one most firms skip, and it is the one our clients say matters most.

What can be done today, accomplish it. Tomorrow is not guaranteed. Operating motto, Unruly Labs LP
01

Discover

A first call with the principals. No discovery deck, no sales call. We listen, we ask the two or three questions the answer to which decides whether we should take the work. End of call: yes, no, or come back when you have X.

02

Research

Two to five days. We read your current site, your current tools, the team's actual operating constraints, and the market you sit inside. The output is a written research brief you can keep. We share it with you whether or not we move forward together.

03

Design

Architecture, messaging hierarchy, visual direction. For a website, that means information architecture plus brand direction. For an automation, that means workflow map plus role definition. Design lands before build, and you sign off on it before a line of production code gets written.

04

Build

The principals on the call, the AI team on the production work. Build runs in short cycles with a weekly receipt. You see the work in motion, not at the end. Production-ready code, not a prototype that has to be rebuilt before launch.

05

Automate

Anything in the build that should run on its own gets handed to an agent with a scoped role and an audit log. This is where most engagements stop short. We don't. The automation step is the difference between a website and a working business system.

06

Test

Lighthouse-grade performance, axe-core accessibility, end-to-end QA on every workflow. Every test is automated and runs on every change. If a deploy fails the gate, it doesn't ship. The standard is the same one we run on our own work.

07

Launch

Public deploy, monitoring live, documentation handed over. We are on the line for the first week after launch by default. If something breaks, you talk to a principal, not a ticket queue. Launch day is not the end of the engagement.

08

Improve

Most agencies disappear at launch. We don't. Every Aurora and Forge engagement has an improve cadence built in: monthly review, quarterly architecture audit, kill-criteria sign-off on anything we should stop doing. We run this on our own work first. This site is a weekly dogfood pass on the LP-meta build, and the same discipline runs on every client engagement after launch. The system stays useful as your business changes around it.

Start here

Send us your scope.
We send back a plan.

No NDA on first contact. No sales call before we read what you sent. We read your scope and reply with a real answer, or we tell you why we didn't.

Start a build
Operations · ops@unrulylabslp.com
First reply from a principal, not an intake form. Or we tell you why we didn't.
Scope call to public URL, same week. Audit first, ship next.
Principals on every engagement. No account managers between you and the work.