About
A studio built for the AI-native era.
MetaLab was started in 2025 with a single thesis: the next decade of digital businesses will be built around encoded human expertise, and the studios fast enough to build them will own outsized leverage.
The founder
Thomas Labarriere.
Before MetaLab, Thomas spent several years designing and deploying automation and AI infrastructure for large enterprises. He built architectures that now orchestrate millions of operations every month, doing the work that once took entire teams to deliver.
Working from inside those organisations made the pattern clear: in modern software, leverage belongs to whoever owns the system, not whoever rents it.
In 2025, the constraint on building collapsed. Technical capacity stopped being the bottleneck. What replaced it is judgment: which problems deserve to be solved, with whom, and why now. MetaLab is the structure he built around that question.
The studio runs on selective partnerships and fast execution. Every app is designed as a durable digital asset, built to belong to its expert partner and to MetaLab for years to come.
Why now
Why this studio. Why now.
Three things converged in late 2025: the cost of building production-grade mobile and AI systems collapsed; the supply of world-class experts looking to digitalize their methodology grew; and the tools to do both at studio-grade quality became accessible to small operators.
The window for building studios that ship fast and own real digital assets, instead of charging for time, is open right now. It will not stay open forever.
MetaLab exists to operate inside that window with discipline and selectivity, while it lasts.
Operating model
How we operate.
AI-leveraged operations.
Every hour of work is amplified by AI systems we built ourselves. We ship what used to take traditional teams much longer, with the same level of craft.
Estonian entity, global operations.
MetaLab is registered in Estonia for international flexibility. We operate where the work demands: the UK, Lithuania, the USA, France, wherever a partnership requires presence.
Self-funded. Fully owned.
No external capital. No board pressure. Every decision is made for long-term compounding, not for next quarter's metric.
Transparent and durable.
Each partner sees the financials of their own studio every month. There are no hidden costs, no inflated overheads, no surprises.
Roadmap
What's coming.
Three apps launch in 2026, each with a world-class expert. After that, we expand selectively, adding new partnerships only when an existing one is generating proven traction.
The long-term direction is a portfolio of digital assets across performance, recovery, longevity, and adjacent domains. The criterion is the same in all cases: world-class expertise, encoded into a system that compounds.