Ran the business
Growth, acquisitions, regulators, and a board that wanted answers. The plan is written for whoever has to run it on Monday.
About 013 Labs
Strategy from someone who has run the P&L.
013 Labs advises owners and boards of established businesses on what AI should change, and builds the first piece with their teams. It was founded by an operator who still builds and runs the systems he recommends.
Founder
Darren Weiss
Operator, counsel, and builder.
Darren helped scale a regional company into a major participant in a highly regulated national industry, leading operations, growth, mergers and acquisitions, and the legal and regulatory work. He is a lawyer by training and works alongside your counsel, not in place of it.
Today he advises owners and boards on what AI should change in their company, and he designs, builds and runs AI systems every day. He works across both US and Israel business hours.
Why strategy from an operator
A plan lands on a P&L, a team, and a board. Advice should come from someone who has carried all three.
Knows what the contract says
Data terms, liability and lock-in are reviewed before you sign, alongside your counsel.
Still builds
Knowing what can be built this quarter, and what only works in a demonstration, changes which plan is realistic.
How 013 Labs runs itself
We run our own company on the systems we recommend.
013 Labs runs on the systems we recommend: our board packet, sales preparation and research are prepared by them and approved by a named person, so we test the advice before we give it. That is our method, not a client result.
- Board packetPrepared from our own recordsSoftware assembles the board packet from the company's records. A person reviews it before the board reads it, and decisions are recorded and sent back into the work.
- SellingPrepared by systems, approved by a personResearch on prospective clients and first drafts are prepared by systems. A person approves anything that reaches a customer.
- ResearchSources kept beside findingsResearch is gathered and summarized with the source next to each finding, so a person can check it.
- ControlsOwners and an off switchEach system has a named owner, a written list of what it may do on its own, and a way to stop it.
How we judge the work
Useful is more demanding than impressive.
Start with evidence
Observe the current work and establish a baseline before promising a result.
Make authority visible
Name what the system may do, what a person must approve, and how to stop it.
Measure the business change
Track time, rework, delay, quality, adoption and exceptions; demonstrations and software scores do not count.
Some problems need no AI at all. When a checklist, an existing tool, or a process change is the better answer, that is what we recommend.
Bring the question your board is asking.
Thirty minutes is enough to tell whether you need a briefing, a sprint, or nothing yet.