Independent AI research lab

The Lab is working.

BigSteve Labs builds, tests, and documents practical AI systems at the edge of agents, automation, and reliability. The work is public when it is ready. The Lab is not a demo.

Conceptual imagery for atmosphere. Not a BigSteve Labs-owned facility or equipment.
Conceptual imagery — design atmosphere, not a Lab facility.

Current experiment

Project BigSteve

Multiple independent AI builders. One specification. One clean WordPress staging environment. The strongest complete result becomes the foundation for the next BigSteveLabs.com.

This site is that experiment in public. Not a contest page. A live evaluation of whether a serious laboratory website can be built, owned, and maintained in WordPress.

01 / Systems

What we work on

AI agents, local assistants, reliability recovery, experimental infrastructure, and applied evaluation. Work is released when it survives contact with the real world.

02 / Evidence

What we publish

Lab reports, experiment records, field results, and limitations. Claims without evidence stay off the site.

03 / Access

How to follow

Research on Substack and Medium. Code on GitHub. Appearances when they matter. Inquiries when the work is relevant.

In the field

Projects, not promises.

MR BIG. Buzz Desk. Home AI Lab. Agent Rescue. Each is a real system under test — not a slide.

Lab report

Open Source & Developer Report #001

Public research on developer tooling, open source, and the conditions under which AI systems actually ship. RC1 is released.

Field results

Failure at 73%. Recovery completed.

An AI job failed under HTTP 429. The failure was identified. An alternate provider was selected. Human approval was required. Progress was preserved. The run completed.

Look enormous. Sound authoritative. Demonstrate serious work.

The Lab does not chase attention.

It creates things worthy of attention. Projects should feel like releases. Tests should feel like events. Results should feel valuable.

Conceptual imagery for atmosphere. Not a BigSteve Labs-owned facility or equipment.
Conceptual imagery — design atmosphere, not a Lab facility.