Strategy sessions and operations audits, then the build that follows — internal apps, AI automation, integrations, and mobile, scoped around how your team actually works. Fixed-fee, founder-led.
Custom software
Internal tools, SaaS products, full custom builds
AI automation
Workflows, agents, vision systems
Integrations
Stripe, Xero, HubSpot, your CRM — talking at last
Mobile apps
iOS, Android, cross-platform
Three pillars, one team. Whether you start with an audit or jump straight into a build, the studio walks the project all the way through to ongoing operation.
Internal tools, automation, and integrations between the SaaS you already use. No agency markup, no half-finished platforms.
See pricing →Hosting, monitoring, and ongoing tuning. Custom-scoped to how hands-on you want us.
Operations audit. We map the workflows, find the bottlenecks, deliver a roadmap with quotes. Yours either way.
LLM pipelines, vision systems, and small agents that fit how your team actually works. Built in where it genuinely helps.
Connect the SaaS sprawl. Make Stripe, Xero, HubSpot, your CRM, and your spreadsheets actually talk to each other.
Tidy Bins · Christchurch, NZ
A custom billing platform that retired the spreadsheets and freed Lynnette to grow the customer base again.
Mode Upload · CSCart store group
One workflow with AI image editing built in, pushed straight into CSCart through their API. SEO drift gone.
Urban Style Sumner · NZ
A custom inventory and sales system shaped around how the team actually works on the floor — not the other way around.
Pain-led, not industry-led. We work with operationally complex small businesses turning a tangle of tools into custom software that fits how they actually work — with AI built in where it genuinely helps.
You're paying for tools that should integrate, and tying them together with copy-paste and manual exports.
Built three years ago by someone who's since moved on. Everyone's afraid to touch it; nobody can confidently replace it.
Copy-paste, chasing information across tools, and reconciling the same data in three different places.
You've grown past it, but a full custom build feels too expensive — or too risky for a team your size.
The consultants you've spoken to feel like they're selling buzzwords, not outcomes.
A strategy session or audit is always step one. We don't quote builds we haven't scoped — and you don't commit to anything you don't understand.
You know what it costs before we start. No hourly meter running in the background, no surprise invoices.
If you commission an audit and decide not to build with us, the diagnosis and roadmap are still yours to take to anyone else.
Software isn't done when it ships. Managed hosting and ongoing maintenance are how this stays useful in 12 months, not just at launch.
Slo Labs is run by Luke Stynes — a software engineer who started the studio after watching too many businesses spend big on AI and never see the ROI. Tool stacks growing, the actual work unchanged.
If you hire Slo Labs, you work with Luke. No account managers, no offshore handoff, no junior on the build. The studio takes on a small number of projects each quarter, by design — quality is the constraint, not capacity.
Based in Sydney · Working across AU + NZ.
90-minute strategy session, $500 AUD, written follow-up included. Bring your messiest process. If we're a fit for something bigger, this becomes the start of an audit.
