# Onda Labs

> Onda Labs LLC is a digital product studio. We design and engineer software, games, and AI products — and we run the servers, cybersecurity, and IT behind them. One team, from the first sketch to production at scale.

Onda ("wave" in Portuguese and Spanish) is a small, senior studio. Clients own what we build: full source code, documentation, and handover. No subscriptions to us, no lock-in.

## What we build

- **Software**: Custom software development for the core of a business — not dashboards for their own sake. SaaS platforms, web apps, and mobile apps. Whatever a client can dream up, we design it, build it to scale, and hand over the keys.
- **Games**: Play across the whole emotional range — from intimate games that keep a family's voices alive across generations, to economic simulation and pick-up-and-play arcade titles.
- **Applied AI**: Practical intelligence that actually ships — including on-device machine learning for iOS that filters noise and keeps user data on the device. Production systems, not demos.
- **Creative tools**: Software for people who make things, including a native macOS app for screen recording and editing.

## What we run

- **Security & operations**: The day-two work most studios won't touch. We run managed IT services, keep servers patched and monitored, harden networks against real threats, and install security cameras and door access control for organizations that cannot afford to go down — from maritime-risk intelligence to community institutions.

## A note on naming

The site labels each practice area with a marine codename: **Fathom** (software), **Reef** (games), **Sonar** (applied AI), **Reel** (creative tools), **Watch** (security & operations). These are names for service areas — they are not products, and they are not software you can buy. Onda Labs' actual products are listed below.

## Ventures by Onda Labs

Products Onda Labs owns and operates, alongside its client work. These are our own ventures, not client projects.

- **DeckPro** — https://deckpro.studio — live. Deck design software for builders: a 3D designer, automatic material takeoffs, and branded proposals, with framing members sized against the American Wood Council DCA 6-2015 prescriptive residential deck construction guide and IRC span tables.
- **Onda Studio** — in development. A native macOS screen recording and editing tool. No public release yet.
- **Copa Tycoon** — in development. An economic tycoon simulation game. No public release yet.
- **Heartwood** (also called "The Grove") — in development. A family legacy game: a shared grove that grows from recorded family stories told in their own voices, where every tree is a person. No public release yet.
- **Crappy Turd** — in development. An absurd casual arcade game for iOS. No public release yet.
- **DockPro** — in planning. Dock design and estimating software, applying the DeckPro approach to waterfront structures. No site and no release date yet.

Onda Labs also has an unannounced on-device AI filtering app for iOS in development. It is not named here because it does not have a final name.

## How we work

1. **Discover** — pressure-test the idea, define scope, map the product. You leave with a plan and a number.
2. **Design** — interface, systems, and architecture drawn together, so what looks right is also buildable.
3. **Build** — production engineering in short, visible cycles. Working software every week.
4. **Launch** — ship, instrument, iterate on real usage. The codebase is documented and yours.

## Where we are

Based in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Software, game, and AI work is delivered remotely for clients anywhere in the United States. On-site work — security-system installation, server and network buildout, managed IT — is delivered across the Southeast, including Chattanooga, Atlanta, and Nashville.

## Contact

- Website: https://ondalabs.io
- Email: hello@ondalabs.io
- Start a project: https://ondalabs.io/#contact