Black Star Labs - AI MVP Development & Product Consulting

Q: What is the MVP Sprint?

The MVP Sprint takes you from Zero to 1 in weeks. We combine rigorous discovery (user interviews, PRDs) with full-stack development to ship a validated product. You get the strategy of a CPO and the execution of a dev team.

Q: How does Strategic Co-Building work?

Strategic Co-Building is an ongoing partnership for founders. We manage your roadmap, define requirements, and build alongside you—setting up scalable AI-native infrastructure and workflows from day one.

About

Black Star Labs is a New York City-based product studio on a mission to build useful, human-centered applications that solve real-world problems.

We use an AI-native stack to collapse timelines, architecting systems that scale, automating the boring stuff, and shipping MVPs in weeks, not months. We believe in innovation and ownership for everyone, focusing on lean development cycles and measurable outcomes over hype.

Products

Our primary focus is building and shipping our own proprietary applications. We handle the entire product lifecycle, from initial concept and strategy to design, development, and launch.

Discover the applications we've built, each designed to solve real problems and create meaningful impact.

Cassflow (Coming Q2)

Hyper context-aware UX reviewer.

Autonomous Agents & LLM Orchestration

Confidential360

Voice first 360 reviews.

Speech to Text Automated Qualitative Research Engine

Habit Chronicle

Gamified Habit-Building App.

Text to Image Generation

LeaseSnap (Coming Q2)

A tenant-first community for New York City renters.

Generative AI with Real-Time Web Grounding Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Made Plans

A smart tool for planning great dates.

Context-Aware GenAI Recommendation Engine

Sportssense

Live Sports Companion for New Fans.

Context-Aware AI Chat Adaptive Educational Platform Resilient Real-Time Data Mesh

Vibecare (Coming Q2)

AI Agent support team for indie developers.

Autonomous Agents Enterprise-Grade RAG

Designed for a global apparel brand under NDA

Led end-to-end design and prototyping that took a complex supply chain concept from ambiguous requirements to development-ready specifications. Defined product strategy, user flows, and technical architecture across four phases.

Automated PO Generation

Spec'd document parsing, BOM auto-generation, and approval workflows to reduce purchase order cycles from 4+ weeks to under 24 hours

Real-Time Production Visibility

Designed ERP connectors (SAP/Oracle/NetSuite) with live tracking, ETA prediction, and capacity scheduling

DPP/ESPR Compliance Engine

Architected automated Digital Product Passport generation and tier-0 supplier linkage for EU regulatory readiness

Ecosystem Platform

Mapped SDK architecture and partner integrations for marketplace and consumer transparency. Built for extensibility and third-party integration from day one.

Strategy

Fractional CPO & Product Leadership

We partner with founders to take products from ambiguous ideas to validated builds. Through hands-on product discovery, strategic planning, and rapid prototyping, we de-risk your roadmap and get you to market faster.

Three Ways to Work With Us:

The MVP Sprint (Strategy + Execution)

Zero to 1 in weeks. We combine rigorous discovery (user interviews, PRDs) with full-stack development to ship a validated product. You get the strategy of a CPO and the execution of a dev team.

Strategic Co-Building

Ongoing partnership for founders. We manage your roadmap, define requirements, and build alongside you—setting up scalable AI-native infrastructure and workflows from day one.

Growth & Automation Audit

We audit your existing product and operations to unlock growth. We implement data-driven UX improvements and custom n8n/Zapier automations that save you 20+ hours of manual work per week.

Capabilities: Product Leadership that Ships

We're product managers who build. That means we don't just write specs and hand them off—we validate through prototypes, test with real users, and ship production-ready code. The result: faster cycles, lower risk, and products that actually solve problems.