Starts with a real problem
The useful ideas usually appear while something is being built, repaired, routed, measured or deployed.
Pixelhatch Labs
Small tools. Real problems. Built to be used.
Labs is where Pixelhatch turns recurring problems into working software. The ideas start inside real projects, get tested on real work, then earn their way into something other people can use.
PixelhatchLabs
ProblemFound in real work
BuildWorking software
ReleaseShared early
What Labs is
Not a concept shelf. A place for working things.
Pixelhatch Labs sits between client work, product thinking and technical experimentation. If a problem keeps showing up, it may be worth building the fix once instead of solving it from scratch every time.
Has to work before it gets a story
Labs products are tested against actual jobs before they are presented as polished product thinking.
Shared before everything is settled
Public betas let the product meet workloads, edge cases and people it would never see inside Pixelhatch alone.
Available now
The current Lab.
One product is ready to leave the bench. More only get added when they have earned it.
Adaptive intelligence control for coding agents.
Helm keeps tightly coupled engineering work together, routes intelligence when it adds value and independently checks risky changes. v0.8.7 makes execution continuity visible: after Continue, stage progress, model routing, elapsed time and real output return as work resumes. Other current-version Helm windows can follow the same local run without duplicating execution. Capacity forecasting, safe handoffs and privacy-first beta diagnostics remain.
Explore Helm and download the beta →The point of it
The build is part of the thinking.
Pixelhatch works across design, web systems, AI visibility and agentic products. Labs is where those disciplines collide hard enough to produce software.
Some Labs projects may become products. Some may stay free. Some may eventually disappear. The bar is simply that they solve something useful and are good enough to put in somebody else's hands.