Independent venture studio — est. Pleroma Labs LLC
Solutions of Salvation to Salve the Soul
Pleroma Labs is a portfolio of founder-built software, media, and land systems. One pattern runs through all of it: take an unstructured, real-world mess and return something structured, reviewable, and useful — then ship it.
Shipping
2026 is the year the studio went from building to shipping. The receipts:
Velo
Live — App StoreSpeed reading & focus for iPhone and iPad. Books, articles, and documents streamed one word at a time with tuned pacing and on-device extraction.
Chorez
Submitting — App StoreThe allowance app without the debit card. Kids see what to do, parents see what got done, and allowance tracks itself.
Open source
Tools we built for our own products, extracted, and gave away. All at github.com/kegbenk.
vidstrackt
Reconstructs on-screen text from video, fully on-device. Handles RSVP reels and multi-word captions.
scribe
On-device PDF & EPUB extraction for iOS and macOS — chapters, footnotes, images. No server, no network.
rsvp-timing
RSVP timing engine — Optimal Recognition Point and per-word pacing, parity-locked across JavaScript and Swift.
folio
Reconstructs book structure — chapters, footnotes, page offsets — from OCR’d scans.
The lab
Systems we run on ourselves first. Internal today; each one earns its way out.
Boris Operating system for a one-person company
Plans the founder’s calendar around real busy time, harvests every git repo for what actually got done, and writes the studio’s operating reports every night. This company is literally run by software it built.
valueVibes Values-aligned money review
Turns raw financial transactions and holdings into a reviewable picture of whether the money agrees with the values.
HomestarSteading Food-forest planning app
AR sun-path capture and spatial preview for regenerative landscape design — software distilled from real fieldwork on our own land.
Beyond software
Music studio
Original works from composition through finished release — built for sync licensing and direct-to-fan.
Permahome
Regenerative home landscapes designed for real maintenance cycles and real people.
Acquisition desk
A selective corporate-development lane: operational fit over novelty, sustainable economics over hype.
Research desk
Historical and strategic analysis that informs execution timing across every lane.
Work with us
Digital product studio
- Product strategy & UX architecture
- Rapid app development, prototype to App Store
- Workflow & operations tooling
Creative production systems
- Composition & recording pipelines
- Release-ready production structure
- Creative process optimization
Regenerative home services
- Food-forest landscape planning
- Phased transformation roadmaps
- Long-term maintenance design
Availability
Selective collaborations. Limited intake each quarter.
If your team is building something ambitious and operationally complex — or you want the people who ship their own products shipping yours — we should talk.
founder@pleroma.info