Sounding Labs — a software studio

We build instruments for murky water.

Some problems are hard because the rules are tangled, the stakes are real, and nobody can see the bottom. We sound them out — then build the tool that reads the depth and reports it plainly, with its sources shown.

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How we work

Measure first. Build the instrument. Show the reading.

We don't ship black boxes. Every tool we make is deterministic where it counts, honest about what it doesn't know, and able to point at the source behind every answer.

01 — Sound

Find the real depth

Before a line of code, we map where the actual risk and complexity sit — not where they appear to. Most of the value is in framing the problem correctly.

02 — Instrument

Build a tool that reads it

We turn tangled rules into something that runs the same way every time: fast, testable, and precise enough to trust with a real decision.

03 — Cite

Show the source

Every answer carries its evidence. If a tool flags something, it says exactly which rule, which case, and why — so you can check the work, not just take it.

Work

Two instruments, one idea

Each audits something messy, scores it, and surfaces the fixes with the reasons shown — and neither changes a thing without a human's say-so.

Live · open-core

ClaimKind

claim-scanning engine · cited rule packs · hosted API

Brands are being fined for the wording on their product pages — "carbon neutral", "reef safe", "clinically proven". ClaimKind reads product copy the way a regulator would and flags the exact phrases at risk, each tied to a real enforcement case, with a compliant rewrite. The engine is open source; the cited, versioned rule packs are what teams pay for.

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75+

cited rules, citations verified

4 markets

AU · US · UK · EU

Grounded in real cases — e.g. ACCC v Clorox (2024), an A$8.25m penalty for "ocean plastic" claims, and the UK ASA's bans on unqualified "carbon neutral" ads.

Live · on the Shopify App Store

Tila

product-data audit · readiness score · AI-drafted fixes

A Shopify app that audits a store's product data, scores how ready each product is to be found, and drafts the fixes — titles, descriptions, tags, alt text, GTINs — for the merchant to approve. Built for the age of AI shopping assistants: it fixes the actual content a human and an AI read, human-in-the-loop, with a reason behind every suggestion.

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Live

on the Shopify App Store

2 scopes

reads & writes product data — nothing else

You approve every change. Tila never touches price, inventory or orders — and risky beauty claims ("treat", "clinically proven") are flagged for review, never auto-rewritten.

Next More Shopify apps are in the works — built on the same spine: audit, score, human-approved fixes.

The studio

Sounding Labs is a small, independent software studio. We take on problems where the cost of being wrong is high and the truth is hard to see, and we build the instrument that makes it readable.

We work in the open where we can, keep our claims honest, and would rather ship two tools people trust than ten they don't. ClaimKind and Tila are the first; more will follow.

// what we hold to
— deterministic where it matters
— cited, or it doesn't ship
— honest about the edges
— guidance, never overreach
— the source is always shown

// founded by
VB · vb@soundinglabs.co

Get in touch

Have something worth sounding out?

Whether you want an early look at ClaimKind as a founding partner, or you've got a problem that should be legible and isn't — send a note. No forms, no funnels.

hello@soundinglabs.co