Soshi Labs

Ink construction drawing of an Ionic volute, close up on its spiral
  • Software studio
  • Built with AI
  • Checked by people
  • Apps, tools, agents
  • Since 2024
Bronze gear train of the Antikythera mechanism, the oldest known computer

Software built with AI, to free humanity.

The next renaissance

The last one began when scholars found the old Greek books and read them again.

The next begins with machines that have read every book. We put them to work for people.

Coffered vaults and arches from Raphael's School of Athens

Logos

Greek for word, and for reason. It gave us logic, and now it is how software begins: as words, turned into working code by models, then shaped by people.

  1. You describe it in words.
  2. Models draft it in hours.
  3. We shape and check every line.
  4. It ships, and it is yours.

What we hold to

The models do the drudgery. People decide what is worth building.

Your code, your data and your choice of model stay yours.

The smallest model that does the job, on the device you already own.

Anthropos

The human being. Protagoras said the human is the measure of all things; the Renaissance built humanism on that line.

Automata, again

Manuscript drawing of an automaton theatre from Hero of Alexandria's book on self-moving machines
The first program
was written in rope
Engraved spiral of an Ionic capital, close up
Corroded bronze gear teeth, close up
Weathered marble face, cropped to the eyes

Homer imagined golden helpers with minds of their own. Hero of Alexandria built a cart that followed a program of rope and pegs. We build with the descendants.

Turn the handle

Around 100 BCE someone in Greece built a box of bronze gears that computed where the sun and moon would stand on any day. It is the oldest computer we know of. Two thousand years on, we write ours in words.

This dial computes the sky the way its front face did. Turn the handle to move the days.

The Aegean from orbit. The mechanism was found in these waters in 1901.
KriosTaurosDidymoiKarkinosLeonParthenosChelaiSkorpiosToxotesAigokerosHydrochoosIchthyes

19 October 2026

Today. The sun stands in Libra, which the Greeks called Chelai. The moon is in Aquarius: first quarter, 57% lit.

Engraved Ionic voluteSoshi Labs is a small software studio that builds with AI. Models write the first draft; people decide what is worth making and check every line before it ships. We make apps, tools and agents that hand people back their time.

The Greeks called free time scholē, the hours in which people think, make and govern themselves. It is where our word school comes from. Software should give those hours back.

It opens your email with the sentence filled in, addressed to hello@soshilabs.com. Every piece of software starts as a sentence like it.