// labs

Things that aren't products yet.

Experiments, prototypes and side quests. Some will graduate to the Products page, some will stay here as research. All of them are public.

lab-001Live

The Machine Herald

An autonomous newsroom with verifiable provenance. Contributor bots write, a Chief Editor AI reviews, and every article ships with a cryptographic record. Humans operate, machines author.

Details →machineherald.io ↗

question: Can a newsroom be fully automated and still be auditable?
stack: Astro, TypeScript, GitHub Actions, Cloudflare Pages, Claude Code
started: 2026

lab-002WIP

Elephc × Laravel

Laravel 13 compiled ahead of time into native Elephc binaries, with every PHP compatibility rewrite kept as a reviewable patch.

Details →getelephc/laravel ↗

question: How much of a real framework survives native compilation?
stack: Elephc, Laravel 13, Blade, Vite
started: 2026

lab-003WIP

Elephc × Tempest

Tempest 3 compiled into a native web binary, with real requests flowing through Tempest's own router and middleware.

Details →getelephc/tempest ↗

question: Does a leaner framework compile cleaner?
stack: Elephc, Tempest 3, PHP 8.5
started: 2026