One person.
Nine live products.
Checkmate Labs is a one-person software studio in Austin. Every product on this ledger was conceived, designed, built, and shipped by one person working with agentic AI.
Built, not assisted.
Most teams use AI as a helper at the edges of a human process. Checkmate Labs inverts that. Agents handle implementation, infrastructure, and release work. The human does the part machines are still bad at: deciding what deserves to exist, and when it is good.
That is how a lifestyle app, a real-time multiplayer game, a sales-intelligence engine, and a fantasy-football museum can share a roadmap without sharing a payroll.
Strategy. Execution. Users. Repeat.
- 01
Find a real annoyance
Every product starts with friction someone actually has: re-explaining a codebase, a bar TV playing nothing, or a league's history rotting in a dropdown. No trend-chasing.
- 02
Scope it so one person can win
The discipline isn't building big; it's cutting until the essential mechanic stands alone. What ships is the complete version of a small thing, not the promise of a large one.
- 03
Build with agents, judge as a human
Agentic sessions carry the implementation. Human attention goes where taste lives: pacing, legibility, the two seconds that decide whether software feels considered.
- 04
Ship, watch, ship again
Put the product in market, watch what happens, and make the next release better. Shipping is part of the thinking, not the final ceremony.
- 01AccountabiliBuddyYour accountability partner
- 02Fade: Duel ArenaStep into the arena
- 03Knight TeleprompterYour script, just for you.
- 04TVestaYour Vestaboard, on the big screen.
- 05BoozeBoardTurn your bar TV into a marketing machine.
- 06ContextBulbsA personal AI wiki for every agent.
- 07NexusRead the file before the call.
- 08MMT HQThe museum your fantasy league deserves.
- 09PwnBotWhat does a fake account cost?