About

Founding engineers
turned builders‑for‑hire.

We’ve been the first engineers at multiple startups. The ones writing the first line of code, standing up the first deploy, and figuring out the product alongside the founders. Between us, we’ve done that from scratch more times than we can count, across fintech, e‑commerce, and verticals that didn’t have a name yet.

We’ve built the full surface area: web apps, native mobile apps, browser extensions, serverless backends, payment integrations, internal ops platforms. Whatever the product needed next. And we’ve integrated the messy third‑party systems that real products depend on: payments, credit bureaus, shipping, analytics.

We’ve scaled those products to real revenue: millions in transactions, thousands of users, acquisitions. Not in theory. In production, on call, with customers on the other end.

Now we use AI as a force multiplier. But the instinct underneath — knowing what to build, what to skip, and how to ship something that holds up — that comes from twenty years of doing it the hard way first.

That’s the experience behind every build we take on.

The Founders

Two engineers. Twenty years of shipped.

Alex Kates

Alex Kates

Co-Founder / Engineer

Founding engineer at Croissant, Credit Genie, and Swift Capital. Shipped web apps, native mobile, browser extensions, and serverless platforms from first commit to PayPal acquisition.

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Brandon Muller

Brandon Muller

Co-Founder / Engineer

Founding engineer at Croissant and Swift Capital. Shipped fintech products from zero to PayPal acquisition, then kept building. Systems thinker, operator mindset, first principles.

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The Name

Foreman Labs

On a job site, the foreman is the one who actually knows what’s happening. Not the architect drawing plans from an office. Not the client writing checks. The foreman is on the ground, making calls, catching problems before they compound, and making sure the thing gets built right.

That’s how we work. We’re not advisors. We’re the ones in the codebase, shipping the product, solving the problems that show up between the plan and reality.

Let’s build it.