About
McLabs is a Chicago-area software studio with 20+ years building products from zero to scale — including work as founding engineers at companies like Groupon.
We build our own products and help teams ship theirs. Full-stack, from architecture through deployment.
Services
Product Development
MVP to production. Web apps, APIs, mobile backends. We build the thing.
Architecture & Scale
System design, performance, and the hard problems that show up at growth.
AI Integration
LLM-powered features, agentic systems, and AI-native product design.
Rescue & Modernization
Legacy codebases, stalled projects, and teams that need unblocking.
Work
- Alchemy AI-native video production platform
- DwellSocial Community management & engagement
- Boostered Audio normalization for social video
- Groupon Founding engineer — zero to IPO