Lily Mae
LABS
AI CONSULTING & DIGITAL CRAFTSMANSHIP
Lily Mae Labs designs and builds websites, apps, and AI systems for small businesses. This page is one of ours — made by the same hands you'd be hiring, right down to the way it moves. Keep going; we'll show you how it's made, and what that means for you.
WHAT WE BUILD
Three things, done properly.
Websites
Custom-designed and built from scratch — never assembled from a template kit. Fast to load, easy to use, and unmistakably yours. The design, the motion, the way it responds to you: every detail is a decision, not a default.
Like the one you're on.
AI systems & automation
The repetitive work that eats your week — invoices, follow-ups, scheduling, copying data between apps — handed to systems that do it quietly and correctly, every time, without being asked. We design it, build it, and teach you to run it.
A tool is something you use. A system is something that runs without you.
Apps
Phone and web apps built to ship and built to last — clean under the hood, honest about performance, and handed over with a plain-English manual your team can actually use.
Yours to keep, and to run.
WE SHOW OUR WORK
This page, measured.
Anyone can say fast, reliable, and private. Here's what those words actually mean — with the real numbers from the page you're reading, not a pitch deck.
Under the hood
The galaxy is live, not a video
Most animated websites just play back a recording. This one is running a real physics simulation — the site calculates the pull of gravity on every star, many times a second, while you watch. That's why it follows your cursor, and settles when you stop moving.
For the builders — a hand-written Verlet integrator on raw WebGL + Canvas 2D — no 3D library, no pre-baked footage.
One motion language, top to bottom
Every movement here — the galaxy calming as you scroll away, each section easing into place — runs on that same physics. It's why the whole page feels like one thing, not a stack of separate effects.
For the builders — the section-reveal easing is derived from the simulation's own damping constant.
NOW YOU
That one's ours. Yours goes here.
We take on a small number of partners at a time, and we build alongside them — not for them. If you're any of these, we should talk.
A founder with a first product
You know the problem cold. You've never shipped software. We bridge that gap and teach you the ground as we go.
An owner drowning in manual work
The busywork that eats your week is exactly what a system is for. We find it, automate it, and hand you the controls.
An expert with knowledge worth selling
You've spent years getting good at something. We turn that expertise into a digital product — built well, documented, and yours to run.
HOW WE WORK
Built alongside you, not for you.
- 01
Research
We learn your world before we build in it — what you actually struggle with, not what a template assumes.
- 02
Blueprint
Every screen, step, and decision mapped and agreed before any code is written. No surprises, no moving goalposts.
- 03
Build alongside
You watch it take shape in phases you approve. Every choice is documented with the reasoning behind it.
- 04
Hand over
You leave with the product and the manual for it — the knowledge to run and change it without us.
Who you're actually working with
Lily Mae Labs is small on purpose. You work directly with the person building your project — no account managers, no handoffs to a junior team you never met. The standard is A-plus on the first pass, and every decision is explained so you're never dependent on us to keep going.
STRAIGHT ANSWERS
Questions we hear.
It starts with a conversation, not a sales pitch. We map out how it will work, lock the design, and build in phases you approve as we go — so you're never in the dark. When it's done you have the product and a written record of how it was built and how to look after it.
A focused marketing site is two to four weeks. A full web app — with logins, databases, and custom features — runs six to twelve. Automation and AI projects we price one by one. We'd rather give you a real timeline than a fast promise we can't keep.
That's exactly who this is for. Some of the best products start with someone who knows a problem deeply and has never built software. We turn the idea into a plan, and the plan into a finished product — and teach you how it works, so you're never dependent on us to change it.
Every project is scoped to what you actually need, so we don't publish fixed prices that wouldn't mean anything. Tell us what you're building and you'll get a clear, honest estimate before any work begins.
Yes. Launch is the starting line, not the finish. We handle maintenance, updates, and monitoring, and we provide the documentation and training for your team to run day-to-day themselves. The goal is your confidence, not your dependency.
Tell us what you're building.
Where you are, where you want to go — a sentence or a paragraph, either works. We read every message and reply personally, usually within a day.