AI-native venture studio
We turn world-class expertise
into scalable digital systems.
MetaLab partners with leading experts to transform their methodologies into AI-native mobile businesses. We fund the build, operate the product, and share the upside.
Our thesis
Expertise is becoming programmable
The world's best methodologies, in strength, in sleep, in longevity, in performance, are still trapped in books, podcasts, one-on-one coaching, and the heads of a few people who built them over decades.
AI did not change that. AI changed what's possible next: methodologies can now be encoded into adaptive, personalized, behavioral systems that work at scale, in the user's pocket, every day.
MetaLab exists for one purpose: to identify the methodologies that deserve this transformation, and to build them into businesses with the experts who own them.
The model
How we build together
01
You bring the expertise
Your methodology, your audience, your credibility. Two decades of judgment that no one else can replicate.
02
We build and operate
AI systems, mobile architecture, behavioral design, retention infrastructure, growth, and ongoing operations. Studio-grade execution, financed by us.
03
We share the upside
Aligned long-term economics. Transparent monthly reporting. We own the infrastructure; you own your name and your work; the value compounds for both of us.
Current studios
What we're building right now
Why us
Operator-led. AI-native. Long-term aligned
Operator, not allocator
We build the apps ourselves. We operate them. We keep our skin in the game forever.
AI-native from day one
Every layer is automated where it should be: coaching, observability, retention, decision systems. Not bolted on. Designed in.
Selective
We partner with world-class only. We turn down most conversations. The fit either compounds, or it doesn't.
Patient capital, fast execution
Self-funded. No external pressure to optimize for vanity. We move fast inside the work and slow outside it.
From the founder
Why I built MetaLab
I spent the last few years building automation and AI infrastructure for companies that already had distribution. The work was good. The leverage went to someone else.
What changed in 2025 is that the cost of building collapsed. The constraint moved from engineering capacity to judgment: which products to build, with whom, and why.
MetaLab is my answer. We partner with experts whose methodology deserves to outlast them. We build it. We operate it. We share the upside.
Three studios in motion. More to come.
Thomas Labarriere, Founder