The Lab.
Where we build the things we'd want to use.
The Lab is Sage Ideas' product portfolio — not client work, not concept pieces, but live software built, maintained, and operated by the studio. Every product here started as a genuine itch. Every one of them has influenced a service offering or infrastructure pattern.
When we say “we build what we operate,” the Lab is the proof.
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Things we built and run ourselves.
Nexural
Real-time fintech platform, built for the technically sophisticated trader.
Nexural is a production-grade trading platform with real-time portfolio management, a Discord AI companion, and Stripe subscription billing. It's the largest and most architecturally complex product in the Lab.
Jobpoise
The job search, engineered.
Jobpoise is a citation-grounded AI job application copilot. It generates cover letters, follow-up emails, and application materials that trace back to the candidate's actual resume and the actual job description — no hallucinated accomplishments.
Trayd
Built for the people who fix what breaks.
Trayd is a bilingual AI companion for residential HVAC contractors. It handles estimate generation, diagnostic guidance, and callback scheduling — in English and Spanish, from day one.
VOZA
Speaking-first English learning for LATAM.
VOZA is an English learning platform designed specifically for Spanish and Portuguese speakers in Latin America. The core thesis: most English learning apps teach reading first, but spoken fluency is what actually changes economic outcomes. VOZA puts speaking practice at the center — from the first lesson.
Owly
A reading app that actually ships.
Owly is a reading app with a web-first experience and native mobile scaffolding via Capacitor. v2.0 shipped iOS and Android builds with FCM push notifications and native bridge integrations. Phases 7 (i18n) and 8 (polish + app store submission) are the remaining roadmap items.
AlphaStream
ML trading signals that show their work.
AlphaStream is a Python package for ML-based trading signal generation. It's open-source, maintained, and used by quant practitioners who want explainable signals backed by a rigorous feature engineering pipeline.