The Lab
Products under the microscope.
Every two weeks, we take a real AI product into the Lab: stress-test the UX, inspect the AI layer, trace the user journey, and show how we’d rebuild it for sharper execution, stronger retention, and cleaner product strategy.
Latest teardowns
Teardown12 min
What breaks when a Lovable app meets real scale
READ →Teardown9 min
Cluely: the most viral AI app of the year, rebuilt
READ →Teardown8 min
Why Granola overpays for its AI
READ →Teardown10 min
Cal AI: rebuilding the photo-to-calorie engine
READ →Teardown15 min
Inside Comet's trust problem — and the rebuild
READ →Teardown11 min
ElevenLabs voice agents: what real latency costs
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