Software research lab

We research,then we ship.

Helix Labs designs and builds software across mobile, web, and desktop. First-principles engineering, obsessive craft, product shipped.

Drag us around — we like to move fast

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What we do

One lab. Every platform.

From a napkin sketch to shipped software, on whatever your users hold in their hands.

Mobile

Native iOS & Android and cross-platform apps that feel instant and look inevitable.

  • iOS · Swift / SwiftUI
  • Android · Kotlin
  • React Native · Flutter

Web

Fast, accessible, jaw-dropping web apps and marketing sites built to convert.

  • Next.js · React
  • Design systems
  • Edge & serverless

Desktop

High-performance desktop software for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

  • Electron · Tauri
  • Native Rust / C++
  • Offline-first

AI & Data

LLM products, agents, and data pipelines that actually ship to production.

  • LLM apps & agents
  • RAG & pipelines
  • MLOps
Selected work

Shipped, measured, winning.

A few of the products we've taken from zero to real users. Numbers, not adjectives.

01Fintech scale-up

Realtime trading app

0 → 120k users in 6 months

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02Health platform

Clinician web suite

70% faster patient intake

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03Creative tool

Cross-platform editor

Shipped on 3 OSes in 90 days

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How we work

A tight loop, not a black box.

You see progress every week. No mystery, no drift, no six-month reveal that misses.

01

Discover

We interrogate the problem from first principles. No assumptions survive.

02

Design

Prototypes in days, not months. We test the risky bits before building.

03

Build

Senior engineers, tight loops, shipping weekly. You watch it grow.

04

Ship

Launch, measure, iterate. We stay until it wins in the market.

Coffee break

Build your stack.

Same thing we do all day — stack the blocks, keep them aligned, don't let the tower drift. How high can you go?

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Helix Stack
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Round two

Squash the bugs.

They ship faster than you'd like. Smash every bug for a combo, grab the golden commits — but leave the green passing tests alone.

Bug Smash
30 seconds. Go fast.
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Bug — smash it. Combo grows each hit.
Golden commit — +40 bonus points.
Passing test — don't touch. −20 and combo lost.

Miss a bug and your combo resets. Speed ramps as the clock runs down.

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The lab

A small team of senior builders.

We're not an agency that staffs juniors on your project. Helix Labs is a tight crew of engineers, designers, and researchers who ship the kind of software we'd want to use. We work in the open, move fast, and treat your codebase like our own.

01First principles over cargo-cult
02Prototype before you commit
03Senior hands on every keyboard
04Ship weekly, learn constantly
What clients say

Helix shipped in 90 days what our last vendor couldn't in a year. Genuinely the best engineering partner we've had.

VP Engineering · Series B fintech
Let's build

Have something worth shipping?

Tell us what you're building. We reply within one business day.

hello@helixlabs.dev
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Remote-first · Worldwide