Based in Lahore
Studio · Since 2023
Three engagements at once, max
Studio

The open-book agent studio. Small on purpose.

We are the open-book agent studio for operations leaders at property and field-service companies who want to watch their AI work: live, measured, and theirs. Two engagements, First Agent and Production System, both fixed scope and fixed price. Since 2023. Registered as Codantrix Labs in 2025.

Since 2023
Systems shipped 5
Verticals 5
Capacity 3 at once
01 · What we believe

We end in a deploy, not a slide deck. Most AI projects die between the demo and Monday morning; we build for Monday morning. Every agent ships with a fail mode, a rollback path and the eval that proves it works. We publish our prices, our evals and our mistakes, because trust is earned in the open. No layers between you and the engineer writing your code. Small on purpose.

02 Operating principles

Five rules. We won't break them for you.

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Fixed scope. Fixed price. Fixed timeline.

Written SOW before any work begins. No hourly billing, no surprise invoices. Change requests get their own scoped SOW.

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Code is yours from day one.

We work in your repo. IP transfers on final payment. We don't lock you into a "platform" you have to keep paying us for.

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Plan once. Ship once.

Push back during scoping — we welcome it. Once the SOW is signed and we're building, a change of direction gets its own SOW. That's not aggression. That's how we stay fast.

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Small on purpose.

One founder, contractors on demand, no project managers between you and the engineer writing your code. Three engagements running at once, maximum.

03 · How we work

Map first, then build the spine, then wire the agents, then ship.

Every engagement runs on the Deploy Ladder: four phases, Map, Build, Wire, Ship. The first two days of Map are discovery, inside the fixed price. Then orchestration goes in first, domain agents land on top of the spine, and production runs behind feature flags we own jointly with you, with a 30-day support tail.

Stateless before stateful. Deterministic before probabilistic. Every agent has a fail mode and a rollback path before it sees real traffic.

A written async update every day. One weekly sync. A demo every Friday: the production or staging URL, plus a Loom under five minutes. No standups for the sake of standups. The method page has the rungs and what "done" means on each.

04 · Where we are

Lahore, Pakistan. UTC+5. Working US and EU windows.

We're based in Lahore but most of our clients aren't. The studio operates on overlapping US and EU business hours by default — you brief at the end of your day, the build moves overnight, code is on your desk the next morning.

Lahore is UTC+5: 9 — 10 hours ahead of New York, 12 — 13 ahead of San Francisco, 3 — 4 ahead of central Europe. We work async-first: a daily written update and one weekly sync. The founder bio goes deeper on why we work this way.

05 Who we're not for

Who we're not for. And what we don't do.

Hourly-rate shopping.

We don't bill by the hour. Fixed scope keeps the incentive on shipping, not on extending.

Work where no-code already fits.

If your workflow runs in Lindy or Relevance, use them. They'll get you there faster than we will, and we'll say so on the scope call.

Chatbot requests.

Wrapping an LLM in a chat box isn't an agent. We build agents that do operations work, with orchestration, evals and a rollback path.

Enterprises that need SOC 2 or HIPAA.

Compliance-attested deployments aren't our lane yet. We'll point you to studios that specialize in them.

“An app like Uber.”

We build agents for operations teams, not consumer app clones. If the brief starts with someone else's app, we're the wrong studio.

Students or interns looking for a placement.

We're a small studio shipping client work. We don't offer placements.

Builds padded to bill for time.

We agree the schedule in your SOW: 4 — 6 weeks for First Agent, 6 — 10 weeks for Production System. We don't drag a one-month build into six.

Paid discovery phases.

The 30-min scope call is free and scopes the work. There's no paid discovery before you sign; the first two days of Map are discovery, inside the fixed price.

06 Currently

State of the studio right now.

Planning an engagement
Capacity
Three engagements at once, max. Availability confirmed on your scope call.
Active focus
Production agents for property and field-service operations
Bio · The founder Read about Hassan and how the studio came together.
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