The Labs Applied AI research lab An applied AI research lab: we take what the frontier keeps making possible and turn it into tools for agents.Exos, project management agents run. Clave, the desktop home where your agents work. Slideless, the documents they ship. Learn more

Antasphere

The Studio AI-native software agency Product launches, ERP and legacy rebuilds, internal tools, client portals.Delivered on Exos, the rail our own Lab built: your project captured from day one, agents shipping verified work, and you own every line. Learn more
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Where we’re heading.

Most software is rented. You pick the least-bad product, built for a thousand companies that are not yours, and you bend your process around it.

Somewhere along the way, the tool stops working for you and you start working for the tool.

We think that era is ending. Building software has become absurdly cheap: a business can now own the exact system its work deserves, down to the last detail.

And more and more, the hands on that software will not be human. Everyone will have an agent, and the agent belongs to you, not to any product. What it needs from the world is tools.

That is what Antasphere is: an applied AI research lab. We take what the frontier keeps making possible and turn it into tools for agents, the instruments an agent picks up to do real work. A whole industry will grow around those tools, and we are here early, on purpose.

Nobody knows yet where the line between a person and their agent will settle. We spend our days on that line: using agents for real work, pushing until they break, and building at the frontier of what the two can do together.

What is left for people? Everything that was the point all along: deciding what should exist, judging what is good, the craft, the call that takes taste.

We would love for all of this to make us so effective that we simply work less: shorter weeks, longer tables, more life outside the screen.

We build that future from both ends. The Labs builds the tools agents work with. The Studio ships custom software for businesses, delivered by agents on those same tools. One half invents, the other proves it, every week, on real work.

Romain Pattyn and Luca Derumier Founders, Antasphere

One company, two hemispheres

The Labs invents the tools. The Studio proves them on real work.

  • Punched paper tape running through its reader, the holes smeared into amber dashes of light by a slow shutter. For agents

    The Labs

    An applied AI research lab: we use agents at the edge of what they can do and turn what holds into products. Exos runs the projects, Clave holds the sessions, Slideless ships the documents, and one account opens the whole fleet.

    Visit the Labs

  • A man at a teletype console in a 1960s computer room, tape drives behind him, a colleague filing in the background. For businesses

    The Studio

    Custom software for businesses, delivered on the Lab’s own rail: your project’s context captured from day one, agents shipping verified work, a product team that stays. You own every line.

    Visit the Studio

Three things we believe, and each one forces the next

  1. Everyone will have an agent.

    Agents themselves are becoming a commodity: a loop with access to tools, shipped by the frontier labs. So each person ends up with one, running their day. The part that matters is whose it is. The agent belongs to the user, not to any product, which is why we build tools an agent can pick up rather than agents.

  2. Agents become the primary user of software.

    If your agent reads the system and does the work, your agent is the one operating it. People will go through their agent far more often than through the screen. Software written for humans alone is software with one door, and the busier door is the one nobody built.

  3. Companies will own their tools.

    Building software became nearly free, so renting a compromise built for a thousand other companies stopped being the sensible trade. Companies are rebuilding their systems to own them outright and to fit agents as users. To do that without taking on a software department, they need an exoskeleton.

Where this is going

Companies tomorrow will own their software, because that will be their best economic option. What they will not do is run it.

Owning is the easy half: building became cheap enough that renting a compromise stopped making sense. Running is the hard half, and it is a whole department. So a company needs an exoskeleton, a layer that carries the execution from the first conversation to the fix in production while the people stay in the decisions. That layer is what we built for the Studio, and it is what the Labs now builds for everyone else.

The recordCaptureCaptureContextContextTicketsTicketsFactoryFactoryDeliveryDeliveryMaintenanceMaintenanceHuman gateHuman gate
Everything a project receives is captured, becomes context, becomes work, gets built, gets delivered and gets maintained. Every stage writes back to the same record, and a person decides what ships.

From the journal

Notes on the work, from both hemispheres.

  • A supervisor stamping a printout in a 1960s computer room while an operator waits with the next sheet. studio

    The stamp is what you buy

    Building software keeps getting cheaper and standing behind it does not, which is why accountability, not code, is the thing a company is actually paying for.

    Antasphere

  • A photogram of a slide rule, a compass, a screwdriver and a loop of tape laid out like tools on a bench, toned cyan. labs

    We build tools, not agents

    Agents are becoming a commodity and a standard now exists for reaching what they use, so a small lab should build the tools rather than the agent.

    Antasphere

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