Product, engineering and AI partner for high-growth companies building for scale
When the next six months define your next three years, we bring the experience, ownership, and drive to deliver real results.
We build products end to end, combining expertise with AI to move fast without compromising quality.
When the time is right to build your own in-house European engineering hub, we help you do it.
about us
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The companies we have partnered with have saved millions
by building solutions from scratch, and have gone on to generate billions
in new revenue and scaled to serve the world's largest institutions.
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LangChain
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CI/CD
React.js
Next.js
React Native
TypeScript
Node.js
PostgreSQL
Redis
GraphQL
Python
LangChain
AWS
GCP
Docker
Kubernetes
CI/CD
React.js
Next.js
React Native
TypeScript
Node.js
PostgreSQL
Redis
GraphQL
Python
LangChain
AWS
GCP
Docker
Kubernetes
CI/CD
How we help
Where we show up. And deliver.
You have a clear vision and need an experienced team to take it from zero to production, with full accountability for the outcome.
Growth is outpacing your team's capacity. You need to accelerate delivery without sacrificing quality or accumulating technical debt.
Your roadmap needs AI capabilities your team doesn't have. You need a team with experience in taking AI products from idea to production.
Your internal team needs senior reinforcement: people who contribute strategically, deliver confidently, and raise the bar across product, design, and engineering.
We integrate our team into your org, to help you hit your immediate goals with no ramp-up time. In parallel, we set up everything you need to scale your own in-house European engineering hub in a cost-effective way.
Launching a new product
You have a clear vision and need an experienced team to take it from zero to production, with full accountability for the outcome.
Scaling an existing product
Growth is outpacing your team's capacity. You need to accelerate delivery without sacrificing quality or accumulating technical debt.
Integrating AI into your product
Your roadmap needs AI capabilities your team doesn't have. You need a team with experience in taking AI products from idea to production.
Strengthening your product org
Your internal team needs senior reinforcement: people who contribute strategically, deliver confidently, and raise the bar across product, design, and engineering.
Establishing your European engineering hub
We integrate our team into your org, to help you hit your immediate goals with no ramp-up time. In parallel, we set up everything you need to scale your own in-house European engineering hub in a cost-effective way.
Work
Work that speaks for itself.
FinTech
Series C
Capital Markets Gateway
The first US platform to connect the sell-side and buy-side in the equity capital markets, representing over $40 trillion in assets.
Cybersecurity
Series B
PlexTrac
An AI-powered platform for penetration test reporting and real-time threat exposure management, used by Fortune 500 companies.
FoodTech
Series A
Virtual Dining Concepts
Automating revenue recapture and reconciliation for ghost kitchens operations.
FinTech
Series A
Plotify
A real estate investment platform that enables global investors to invest in fully managed, cash-yielding properties in the US and UK.
FinTech
Seed
Reavo
A payment optimization app that recommends the best credit cards based on location, helping to maximize every transaction.
Human Resources
Acquired
LifeBrand
An AI platform that helps people remove harmful content from their social media posts, used by Fortune 500 companies and athletes from the MLB, NBA, and NFL.
FoodTech
Acquired
Crave
A scalable ghost kitchen platform powering multi-brand restaurant operations across the US.
FinTech
Seed
Karus
AI-powered products that provide end-to-end lending workflows in the auto finance industry.
FinTech
Seed
Sett
Productivity software for investment banks that streamlines content creation, workflows, and communication.
Human Resources
Seed
Vette
An on-demand, human-to-human hiring platform that leverages the gig economy to conduct interviews.
Mass Media
Seed
Storyvine
A platform that enables enterprises to create sales videos at scale using AI.
E-commerce
Seed
West Tenth
A marketplace offering locally crafted goods and services.
PropTech
Seed
Dot Residential
A global housing brand and real estate investment platform.
How we work
Two models. One standard of work.
Model 01
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Autonomous Team
We own it end-to-end
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We deploy a complete cross-functional team of engineers, QA, designers, and PMs to deliver outcomes, not just output. Whether building from zero or owning an entire workstream, we take full ownership across discovery and delivery, and drive key decisions.
No handholding required. We're in the driver's seat from day one.
Model 02
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Embedded Roles
We join your product org
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Our people, whether individual contributors or full teams, work alongside yours as true partners, not external contractors. We bring our own expertise, perspective, and standards to your product org, so you get the output of a senior, experienced team without needing to build one from scratch.
Senior contributors not waiting to be told what to do.
If one of these sounds like the right model for your situation, let's talk about how we can help.
Who we are
An American company based in Prague,
built on the best engineering talent in Europe.
We've spent years working with high-growth tech companies at the hardest product moments: where the decisions you make in the next six months define the next three years.
We don't do staff augmentation. We partner. There's
a difference in how we think about products, how we deliver, and how long we stay.
The companies we work with aren't just looking for a vendor. They're looking for a team that's as ambitious about their product as they are. That's who we're built for.
Founded by American-Czech brothers, we hire from Europe's strongest engineering talent pools, and only the top 0.4% make it in. These are scale-up builders who've shipped complex products in regulated industries, under real delivery pressure.
What Makes Us Different
What sets us apart.
Elite engineering talent
We hire only the top 0.4% from Europe's strongest engineering pools. These aren't your average developers. They're proven scale-up product builders who have done this exact thing before, many times.
Get results from week one, not after months of ramp-up.
of applicants make it in
AI-native, and it compounds
AI is embedded in our software development lifecycle. It helps us build better quality products faster, and it’s how we’ve consistently become our clients’ highest performing product teams on projects.
And when your product needs to be AI-powered, we have the capability to deliver.
See our AI capabilities
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We know your stage
Series A through D, and every pressure point in between: we understand the urgency and complexity of each stage.
We've lived it all; which is why we know what matters at each stage, what the right trade-offs are, and how to navigate our clients to their next key stage
products shipped across different stages
Built for the long term
We work with clients for years, not projects. Ownership, continuity, and commitment are core to the OAK’S LAB way.
And when the time comes to build your own team, we don't just step aside; we help you make that transition, hiring the best people
and setting them up for success.
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See how we do things in practice.
Clutch Average Review Rating: 5 out of 5 ★★★★★
What our clients say.
“OAK'S LAB facilitated business growth and effectively executed against tight deadlines. The team advanced the platform’s sophistication, which enabled an expansion of our customer base.”
Dan DeCloss
CEO, PlexTrac
AI capabilities
AI in how we work. AI in what we build.
We build faster, measurably
AI is embedded across every OAK'S LAB team: in discovery, delivery, and review. For us, it’s not a buzzword but a practical operating model, managed and implemented securely, that becomes more effective over time.
3x development speed in the last year
We build AI-powered products
When AI is core to the product, we know how to move from experimentation to execution. We’ve shipped intelligent automation to production-grade ML features for companies that can't afford to wait on the perfect internal hire.
Production-grade AI features that drive outcomes
We don't just build with AI.
We leave it behind.
We work with your internal teams to embed AI practices, so the efficiency gains don't leave when we do.
Let’s talk
When the work matters, the partner matters
We work with a select number of high growth companies, so we can go deep and act as a true partner, not just a vendor.