Your product, built by a Staff Engineer and a team of AI agents.
ShakTech Labs is a founder-led product studio. New builds, legacy rescues and everything between, at a fixed scope and price. You talk to the person writing the code.
- shipping production software
- 10+ years
- apps live today
- 12+
- to build Tack
- <4 weeks
The proof is the portfolio
A SaaS platform, a mobile-first AI app, a developer tool, twelve games and an open-source package. Different kinds of software, one builder.
Web platform
Prelive
Streaming SaaS for Twitch, YouTube and Kick creators
v6.40 in production · 2,100+ commits since Jan 2025
Mobile-first AI app
Alaap
AI voice-note library for a music teacher
Hindi, Urdu and English · Semantic search across scripts
Developer tool
Tack
Issue tracker built for AI agents
Web app + CLI + MCP server · Imports from Linear, Jira and GitHub
Games
VeryGoodMelon
Twelve web games built to calm you down
12 original games · No ads, no sign-up to play
Open source
Arr Suite MCP Server
Open-source MCP server, published on PyPI
Published on PyPI · 8 stars, 8 forks on GitHub
Plus desktop apps, internal systems and agent infrastructure.
See all the workAI as a team, not autocomplete
Most engineers use AI to type faster. I run it as a team of autonomous agents and hold their work to the engineering discipline I learned in 10+ years of shipping enterprise software.
1. Plan
Agents research the codebase and turn an idea into a written spec, broken into small stories.
2. Build
Several agents implement stories in parallel, each in an isolated workspace.
3. Test
Every change has to pass type-check, lint and automated tests before it can merge.
4. Review
Separate agents review each change. I make the calls on architecture, product and what ships.
Who is behind it
Shakeel Bhamani, based in Atlanta. Ten-plus years of professional software engineering, from consulting at Thoughtworks to Staff Engineer at Grainger.
- Staff Software Engineer at Grainger
- Seven years at Thoughtworks
- Georgia Tech, B.S. Computer Science
- TEDx speaker
- 2017 American Beatbox Championships vice champion
Where to go from here
Investors
Back the studio
I'm raising a pre-seed round to go full-time. Everything in the portfolio was built with no team and no outside funding.
Start a conversationFounders and companies
Get something built
Fixed-price product builds from $25,000, monthly retainers from $10,000, and equity hybrids for the right product.
See how it worksEngineers
Read the code
VeryGoodMelon, Prelive Deck, Unbottle and the Arr Suite MCP server are open source.
GitHubWhat founders ask before hiring the studio
- Is AI-built software safe to run a business on?
- The agents write code. They do not decide what ships. Every change has to pass type-check, lint and automated tests, then a separate review pass, and I make the architecture and release calls myself. Prelive has run in production this way through 370+ tagged releases.
- What happens if you are unavailable?
- You are not locked in. You own the source code, the infrastructure and the docs, and the test suite records how the product is meant to behave. Any competent engineer can pick it up without me.
- How long does a build take?
- It depends on scope, and the timeline is in the written scope before you commit to anything. As a reference point, Tack, a web app with a CLI and an MCP server, was built in under four weeks.
- Can I check your claims?
- Yes. Most products in the portfolio link to a live URL, a public repository or a published package. I will walk you through the private ones on a call.
Have a product in mind?
Tell me about it on a call. Afterwards I send a written scope with a fixed price and a timeline.