I knew something was missing. Commercial LLM front ends had all the horsepower we needed, but the interface was meant to be a basic, $20 end point for people to have chats. It was never meant to be the enduring, loyal, intelligent companion so many needed it to be—that I needed it to me. Hallucinations, drift, memory loss, compartmentalization. There was a missing layer, the layer that knew you, that remembered where you were, that could sniff out ideas and context and have the personality of the greatest companion evolution has ever produced: The Black Labrador Retriever. So, I built it.

Meet Labrador, a front end for any LLM API that acts as the missing layer between you and your conversations, ideas, memories, data. Build from the ground up from a human-centered, service design lens, Labrador is the only product of its kind, built to grow with you and become the default choice for anyone who wants to treat their AI like a companion, not an appliance. This is a product designed, coded, and built by me, pushing the limits of my skills. Labrador is the most sophisticated product I have ever been a part of, and it is just in its alpha state.

But more than that, the way I designed and developed it, and the interaction model I am promoting with it, calls the entire existing paradigm around product design and implementation into question.See a demo, hear about the process, and learn how you can soon clone Labrador yourself and finally have the AI interface surface you've been missing.