Product engineering partner
We help startups validate ideas, build production-ready products, and scale their systems. Not as a vendor executing your tickets. As a partner invested in what you're building.
How we engage
From a two-week prototype to a long-term technical partnership, every engagement is scoped around your stage, your constraints, and what actually moves the needle.
Got an idea you need to validate? We design and build a functional, testable prototype in weeks. Enough to put in front of investors, test with real users, and make your next decision with something concrete in hand.
Your MVP shouldn't need a full rewrite six months in. We build production-grade from the first commit: clean architecture, tested code, and a foundation your next engineering hire can actually work in.
Your product is growing faster than your architecture can handle. We step in, assess what's holding you back, redesign what needs to change, and implement it without stopping the business.
Not ready for a full-time CTO but need the thinking? We sit at your leadership table, own the technical direction, and give your team the clarity they need to ship with confidence.
AI-accelerated delivery
We use AI to accelerate our engineering process. From discovery to launch, every engagement is AI-augmented. Not bolted on at the end — baked into how we work from day one. The result is faster delivery, fewer surprises, and a codebase that holds up.
AI removes the ceiling on how fast we can prototype, iterate, and ship. What used to require three sprints often ships in one. You get to market before the window closes, without cutting corners.
We use AI to stress-test architecture, surface blind spots, and flag risks before they harden into expensive problems. Every design choice arrives at code already pressure-tested.
AI handles the repetitive. Our team handles the strategic. The product decisions that define your business still get the full weight of experienced engineering judgment.
Case studies
Pulsr and Pausr aren't portfolio slides. They're live products we designed, built, and continue to operate. When we advise on product decisions, we're drawing from the same choices you're facing right now.
Engineering team management
The brief
Engineering team leads were juggling too many tools with too little visibility. Standups in Slack, 1:1s in Notion, health checks in spreadsheets. The ask: one workspace that connects the human side of running a team to the work actually being done.
What we delivered
PTO management for engineering teams
The brief
Most leave management tools are buried inside HR suites that engineering teams don't want to live in. The ask: something lightweight, calendar-first, and built around how engineering teams actually plan work, releases, and capacity.
What we delivered
How we work
No long discovery phases. No status-update theatre. Clear stages, real output at every step, and a partner who tells you the truth.
We spend time getting sharp on the actual problem. What are you solving, for whom, and what does success look like in six months? Most engagements fail here. Ours start here.
Before serious code gets written, we validate. A working prototype in your hands so decisions get made on evidence, not assumptions and best guesses.
Production-grade engineering from the first commit. Tested, documented, and built to be maintained by the team you'll hire next, not just the one you have today.
We don't hand off and disappear. As your product grows, we grow with it: new features, better architecture, and the strategic thinking your stage demands.
Why Tosh Labs
Pulsr and Pausr aren't portfolio slides. They're live products we built, operate, and iterate on every week. When we advise you on product decisions, we're drawing from the same choices you're facing.
We don't take a brief and execute it. We ask hard questions, push back when something won't work, and make product decisions alongside you. Your outcomes are our outcomes.
Whether it's a two-week prototype or a full build, every engagement gets strategic oversight. We think about your business, your users, and your architecture two years from now.
Let's talk
We work with a small number of companies at a time. If you have an idea to validate, a product to build, or a system to scale, reach out and we'll tell you honestly whether we're the right fit.
Vancouver, BC · Working with clients globally
