# Concentric Lab — Full Company Profile

> Concentric Lab is an independent, founder-led consulting and software firm in San Francisco. We build, own, and operate. Strategy engagements, product development, and business acquisition — each funds the next.

## Company Overview

Concentric Lab LLC is a San Francisco-based firm that operates three integrated business lines: Strategy, Studio, and Ventures. The firm's model is a flywheel: consulting surfaces patterns, patterns become products, products generate the revenue to acquire the next business. Each layer of the business makes the next layer cheaper to build and harder to get wrong.

Frameworks built in consulting become features in products. Products validated in market become acquisition criteria. You work directly with the people who built this firm and the systems behind it.

The firm takes on four to six engagements per year and responds to all inquiries within one business day. There is no sales team and no discovery call sequence.

Recent work includes embedded product strategy, AI product studio buildouts, workflow automation, and pre-acquisition operational diligence.

## Operating Method

### Step 1: Find the real constraint
Most problems arrive pre-diagnosed. Concentric Lab maps what is actually blocking progress and scopes to the narrowest piece of work that moves a measurable number.

### Step 2: Build the asset
Everything ships as a self-contained system with its own data model and revenue path. Software that depends on its creators is a service contract.

### Step 3: Fold it into the portfolio
Systems that prove themselves in market get capitalized. Consulting IP becomes product. Product traction tells us what to acquire next. Each layer of the business makes the next one safer to build.

## Services

### Strategy — Embedded execution. Not advisory.
Concentric Lab takes execution authority inside your organization for a defined scope and timeline. The team is in the codebase, in the standups, accountable to the same metrics. Typical engagement length: 8 to 16 weeks.

Example engagements:
- Stood up a four-person AI studio in 12 weeks
- Led product from prototype to first revenue
- Replaced a six-person review process with automated screening

### Studio — Software designed to operate independently.
Concentric Lab designs, builds, and ships software products: web applications, internal tools, data systems. Each product is scoped with its own data model, revenue logic, and operational boundary. The scope covers design through deployment.

Example work:
- Shipped four products in twelve weeks
- Built a document classification pipeline with 94% auto-resolution
- Designed data systems that run without the team

### Ventures — We acquire businesses we already understand.
The consulting and product work gives Concentric Lab pattern recognition that most acquirers lack. The firm buys businesses where it has already seen the operating model, the margin structure, and the growth levers. For owners considering a sale: Concentric Lab handles operations post-close with an existing team, shared infrastructure, and a transition process designed to protect what you built.

Example outcomes:
- Acquired and integrated an operations-heavy SaaS business
- Transitioned ownership with zero client churn
- Shared infrastructure across three portfolio companies

## Venture Portfolio

### Reset Ready
Category: Fintech | Status: Deployed | Origin: Strategy to Studio

Portfolio risk assessment and downside scenario modeling for family offices. Evaluates exposure across holdings and models recovery paths before operational changes begin.

Background: The team was doing portfolio work and kept seeing the same gap — teams making operational changes without modeling the downside first. So they built the model.

### TheLifeBeforeMe
Category: Consumer AI | Status: Private Beta | Origin: Strategy to Studio

Guided voice interviews with family members, transcribed and transformed into narrative memoir chapters. Records conversations, preserves the storyteller's voice, delivers a printed hardcover with QR-linked audio.

Background: Started with a simpler problem — hours of recorded conversation that nobody could turn into something readable. The team built the conversion process, then realized it worked for the stories families never write down.

### Duey
Category: Fintech | Status: In Development | Origin: Ventures to Studio

Pre-QoE screening for small business acquisitions. Upload tax returns and financials. The system calculates SDE, identifies add-backs, and runs red flag detection. You get a screening memo before you spend $15K on formal diligence.

Background: The team did their own due diligence three times. Spent 20 hours each time on the same manual screening nobody had automated. The fourth time, they automated it.

## Contact

- Email: hello@concentriclab.com
- Location: San Francisco, CA, United States
- Website: https://concentriclab.com
- Response time: One business day from a principal (no sales team)
- Capacity: 4-6 engagements per year
- Engagement types: Strategy engagement, Build project, Venture or acquisition

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