013 Labs

Bring the business problem. We turn the right AI capability into a working system.

013 Labs is an AI implementation partner for small and mid-market businesses. We diagnose the workflow, choose the tools, design the controls, build and test the solution, and help your team put it to work.

"You do not need to become the AI expert. Bring the objective, bottleneck, or workflow; we translate the capability into a controlled solution your business can use."

Selected experience

A few highlights of what we've built, consulted on, and taught — always tested before it's ever published.

Trading infrastructure

Systematic trading infrastructure

Deep integration with your trading portfolio, backtesting frameworks, risk and position-sizing systems. We teach you to build your own. We don't publish strategies or tell you what to trade.

Data platform

Data intelligence platform

Built for a regulated industry that had no good off-the-shelf option — real-time visibility and accountability where none existed before. Same approach as everything else here: understand the business first, build the fix second.

Business operations

AI agents for business operations

Customer service, accounting, reporting — the processes that eat your week. Built and tested on real client engagements, not hypotheticals.

What we do

01

Implementation partnership

From workflow diagnosis and bounded pilot through controlled implementation, handoff, and operating support.

02

Skills

Downloadable templates and frameworks, free and paid, built from the same work we do for clients.

03

Content

In-depth guides, how-tos, and walkthroughs on building and running real AI-agent systems — the process, documented in the open.

Latest from 013 Labs

Start here: plain-language foundations on AI, agents, and the terms nobody defines well — free, honest, no hype.

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Selected work

A look at what we've actually built — trading systems, AI-agent pipelines, and the operational dashboards behind them.

Trading infrastructure

Algo trading infrastructure

Systematic trading systems — data pipelines, backtesting, and execution, built and run for real.

Business operations

AI-agent pipelines

Automated agent workflows built for real client operations, not demos.

Read the operating-funnel case study →
Business operations

Operational dashboards

Custom reporting and monitoring, built to track what actually matters.

Free operator checklist

Before you give an AI agent access to your systems, score the workflow.

Use the AI Agent Readiness and Risk Checklist to decide whether a use case is ready for a bounded pilot, what must stay human, and which controls need to exist before production access.

  • 40 evidence-based prompts across eight operating domains
  • Hard-stop conditions that override a reassuring total score
  • An authority ladder plus a bounded-pilot canvas

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Free PDF. No invented maturity score. No sales call required.

Get the signal, not the noise.

One email a day. What's actually new in AI agents for trading infrastructure and business operations — filtered, not aggregated.

Building something specific?

We take on a small number of consulting engagements at a time — AI-agent implementation for trading infrastructure or business operations. If that's you, tell us what you're building.

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