STUDIO
Software you'll still want to run next year.
I'm Ivan - one engineer in Delaware. IK Labs builds custom systems for clients and runs its own products. If your problem involves money, trust, or messy real-world workflows, we should talk.
- Founder-led
- AI since 2018
- IllDoItApp live
Most software is fine on launch day.
Six months later the data is wrong, someone new owns the codebase, and the shortcuts from week one are your problem. We take work where that second year matters - marketplaces, payments, internal tools, anything with edge cases that don't fit a template.
IN PRODUCTION
IllDoItApp is live - we operate it ourselves.
A task marketplace: people post jobs, get offers, get paid, dispute outcomes. AI handles moderation and messy task input; an agent layer is in development on top of the live marketplace - not a replacement for it.
HOW A TASK MOVES
- Task posted
- Offers come in
- Worker chosen
- Work in progress
- Paid out
IN MARKET
Products we operate — not portfolio mockups.
HOW WE DECIDE
How we decide when it's hard.
Not a values poster - the trade-offs we actually make.
We design for whoever gets paged.
Deploys, rollbacks, and "why did this charge twice?" matter more than the architecture diagram.
Code has to make sense at midnight.
When something breaks, the person fixing it - often us - needs to read it fast.
Security isn't a pre-launch checkbox.
Access control and data handling get decided in week one, not the week before go-live.
We count the cost of every feature.
More surface area means more tests, migrations, and support forever. We add carefully.
FROM THE FOUNDER
Small on purpose.
When you email IK Labs, you're talking to the person who writes the code and owns the trade-offs. Client work and our own products get the same standard: understandable, operable, safe to change.
WHAT WE BUILD
Work we say yes to.
We don't publish a tech-stack laundry list. We take projects where getting the details wrong has consequences.
Marketplaces and ops-heavy platforms.
Money and reputation are part of the workflow, not bolt-ons. Edge cases are the product.
Backend systems that outlive the team that built them.
Clear boundaries, migrations you can actually run, services you can reason about under change.
Mobile apps for field workflows.
When the product lives on a phone all day - disciplined releases and UX that survives daily use.
Internal tools for the people running the business.
Admin panels, ops dashboards, automation - software for people who ship and support.
AI systems that ship in production.
Agents, filters, moderation, drafting, retrieval - we build AI where it touches real users and real money. IllDoItApp and IllReach are the proof: not chatbots on a landing page, but AI inside live workflows with human review where it matters.
Not sure if we fit? Send a paragraph anyway - we'll tell you honestly.
Contact IK LabsIDENTITY
- Delaware LLC
- Founder-led
- In-market product
- Direct communication
IK Labs, LLC · Delaware, United States
GET IN TOUCH
Tell us what you're building.
Two paragraphs is enough: what it is, what's hard about it, what "done" looks like. I read every message and reply with real questions - not a calendar link.
SIGNED
Ivan Kniaziev
Founder & Lead Engineer