Lights Out Labs is an AI-assisted engineering studio. We help define new products before they're built, and clear the technical debt buried in the code you already run — tested for accessibility and security, with results you can check.
Whether you're starting from a blank page or a codebase that's fighting you, AI does the heavy lifting — and an experienced engineer reviews and tests the result.
Build
Idea to product
Start with a conversation. Discovery turns your idea into a written plan: who it's for, what it does, and how we'll know it works. Then we build it with AI-assisted engineering, with Richard reviewing every change — accessibility and security designed in from the start, not retrofitted later.
Discovery first → written plan → reviewed, tested build
WCAG 2.1 AA & OWASP Top 10 — tested, with a report
A report showing what was tested, and how
Assess
Project health check
Find out where your software project really stands. We measure progress against what was promised and show what's done, what's at risk, and what can realistically fit the time and money left — in a written report you keep.
Progress measured against the original scope, not opinions
What fits the remaining budget, and what to cut or defer
A written report you keep, whoever finishes the work
What it takes: A mutual NDA, read access to your code, project tracker and key documents, and a few hours with the people running the project. If that's more than you can share yet, a conversation is still a good place to start.
Fix
Technical-debt teardown
We map the rot, pin each risk with a failing test before we touch it, and refactor under adversarial review so the fix actually holds. You get momentum back — and a paper trail for every decision.
Prioritized audit of what's costing you most
Failing-test-first — no fix without proof
Adversarial review plus regression tests on every fix
WHY LIGHTS OUT
A studio built like the software it ships.
01
AI-assisted, not a chatbot
The work is done with AI agents running in separate, isolated steps, and an engineer reviews every change. The tooling is designed so a failure in one step is isolated and retried instead of spreading.
02
Correctness is the product
Every change is adversarially reviewed and test-gated before it's accepted. We don't hand you plausible code — we hand you tested, reviewed code.
03
Compliance from the start
Accessibility, security, and SEO are built and tested from the first line. For regulated work, we build with HIPAA, SOC 2, GDPR, or PCI requirements in scope.
04
Lean by design
Self-hosted and cost-efficient under the hood. You pay for clearly scoped work, not a bloated retainer.
GET STARTED
Three ways to begin.
Pick the door that fits. No long forms, no runaround.
01 · TALK
Book a call
Twenty minutes to walk through what you're building or fighting, and whether we're the right team for it.
