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    // ABOUT

    A studio that treats AI like infrastructure.

    Griffin Labs is a founder-led engineering studio building production-grade agentic systems. We scope your system with real production experience, then build it to survive it.

    Portrait of Justin Griffin, Founder of Griffin Labs
    Justin Griffin

    Founder & Principal Engineer

    GRIFFIN LABS, LLC

    I spent years as a reliability engineer keeping real systems alive. I've been on-call, monitored, and been held accountable when things broke. AI changed what software can do, but not what it takes to run it in production.

    Most "AI builds" are demos that fall over the moment real traffic hits. Griffin Labs exists to build the other kind: agentic systems engineered with the same discipline as the infrastructure they run on. We build observable, instrumented, and resilient systems. I started this studio to do that work end-to-end for teams who need it done right the first time.

    // HOW WE BUILD

    Four principles. Not slides.

    01

    Architecture first

    We design the system before we write a prompt. Data flow, failure modes, and what "reliable" means here.

    02

    Evaluated, not assumed

    We measure behavior against real tasks, not demos. The models we train ship with an eval harness.

    03

    Observable in prod

    Traces, metrics, and alerts from day one. If it breaks at 2am, we can see why — and so can you.

    04

    You own it

    Clean code, real docs, and CI/CD you control. No lock-in, no black boxes you can't maintain.

    WHERE WE ARE

    Early, and honest about it.

    Patternwise is live. An agentic research pipeline is in early discussions, and our first agentic engagement is starting. We'd rather show you real work in motion than a wall of borrowed logos.

    Let's build something that actually ships.

    Tell us what you're trying to build. We'll tell you straight whether — and how — agentic systems get you there.

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