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Advance Labs

An independent lab · London, Ontario

We build the instruments agents run on.

Advance Labs is an independent lab building open-source software for the agent era (Ninebrains, runs-on.dev and the AEO Toolkit) and selling the expertise that built them as monthly AEO retainers and build sprints.

01Thesis

Ship the product first. Then sell what it taught us.

  1. 01Products

    Ninebrains, runs-on.dev and the AEO Toolkit. Open source at the core, in use, and the reason anyone should believe the rest.

  2. 02Services

    AEO audits and build sprints, sold at a fixed price by the people who built the tools behind them.

  3. 03Research

    Drone autonomy in simulation and quantum-hybrid feasibility work. Published with the code, so the claims can be checked.

Three products. Two fully open source, one open core.

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Ninebrains, Apache-2.0 · macOS, Windows, Linux

Run Claude Code and Codex agents side by side, each in its own git worktree. A second, independent run has to prove the work before it counts as done.

Lanes a tab
4
Gate attempts
3
To stop every run
<5s
The Ninebrains site: the headline "Nine agents. One repo. No collisions.", an install command, and the figures 4 lanes a tab, 3 gate attempts, 0 telemetry and under 5s to stop every run.

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runs-on.dev, AGPL-3.0 · One name per GitHub account

Free subdomains for developers. Sign in with GitHub, claim yourname.runs-on.dev, and the record is one public file anyone can read.

ICANN fee for a TLD
$227,000
To claim a name
$0
The runs-on.dev home page: yourname.runs-on.dev set in a pixel face above the JSON record a claim writes, a Sign in with GitHub button, and a dot-matrix map of claimed names.

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AEO Toolkit, Open core · Apache-2.0 engine

Tools that measure whether answer engines can find, parse and cite a site. Free in the browser, in Chrome, and over MCP, on an open-source scoring engine.

Rules in the engine
58
Extension checks
40
MCP tools
32
The AEO Toolkit landing page: the headline "Your next customer asks an AI.", a URL field with a Run the audit button, and the line 54 rules, 50 pages, about 60 seconds, no account.

Everything we ship

02Proof

Numbers you can check, work you can open.

23
Packages on npm
6
Drone autonomy tests
275
Emulator tests
228

Kuzyn Builds → BuildCode

Designed and built the marketing site for a London, Ontario custom-home builder, then set up its local AI-search visibility. The relationship grew into BuildCode: plain-English Ontario building-code lookup for the trades.

“Introduced me to Claude, which has revolutionized my business.”
Tom Kuzyn · Kuzyn Builds
Read the case studyKuzyn on GitHub

Smart Fix London

Cleaning up how Google and AI assistants see a London, Ontario repair shop: one name, address and phone across every listing, one clean homepage, full LocalBusiness structured data, and service pages for the repairs AI answers were missing.

Read the case studysmartfixlondon.com

Converg3nce

An AI-visibility venture for commerce brands: it read a brand's web presence the way an AI shopping agent does, scored how agent-ready it was, and ranked the fixes. Wound down in 2026; the site is still up.

Visit the site

03Services

The expertise that built them, by the month or by the sprint.

Two ways to buy the work, both with the price stated before anything starts.

AI Search Visibility Retainer

CAD $500 or $1,000 a month6-month initial term, then monthly

Monthly answer-engine optimization. Your buying questions re-run in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google every month, the fixes that keep you out of the answers shipped, and a one-page report. Managed $500 a month, Growth $1,000 a month.

See the plans: AI Search Visibility Retainer

Fixed-Scope Build Sprint

CAD $1,500–3,0001–2 week delivery

A scoped chunk of engineering for a written scope and a fixed price. AI integrations and automations, or conversion-focused Next.js/React web builds.

See the sprint: Fixed-Scope Build Sprint

All services

04Research

The long bets, published with the code.

Research runs in the open so the claims can be checked rather than taken on trust.

Urban drone autonomy

A multirotor that plans its own mission through real cities imported from OpenStreetMap, with a separate safety layer that can overrule any move. Sim-first, 275 tests and a first PX4 SITL flight, Apache-2.0.

Quantum-hybrid research

Feasibility studies where quantum meets classical computing, including whether quantum hardware can speed up LLM training. Every claim is tagged by the strength of its evidence; the 228-test emulator is public.

05Contact

Tell us what you are building.

What is changing, where the workflow breaks, and what a useful outcome would look like.

Already know what you need? See the monthly AEO retainer or the fixed-scope build sprint.