# PrizenLabs

> PrizenLabs is an AI engineering and research lab that works like a venture studio. It takes on one company at a time and builds the whole product: the research, the product design, the engineering and the launch.

Key facts:

- Positioning: an AI engineering, research and products lab. Not an agency, and not a staffing firm.
- Practices: Artificial Intelligence (12 services) and Web3 & Blockchain (12 services). Both are delivered by the same team.
- Model: one project at a time. The whole team works on a single product until it is live and growing.
- Engagements are a fee, equity or a combination, agreed after a one-week deep dive.
- Typical timeline: application answered within 48 hours, one-week deep dive, 8 to 16 weeks to launch, then iteration until traction.
- Founders: Shreejit Sen (Co-Founder & CEO), Beeky Das (Co-Founder & CTO), Maitreya Kulkarni (Co-Founder & Co-CTO). Advisor: Navjot Gill (External Advisor to the Board).
- Domains: AI Infrastructure, Fintech, Defense & Intelligence, Data Platforms, SaaS Products, Knowledge Systems.
- Products built (18): DeltaMemory, Zynd AI, Holmes, QCT Capital, AlphaScout, OverseeX, Gaia, Project Nemesis, Pelago, DAGI, ClearLoad, JerseyHarvest, Meme Wallet, Charter, NorthBound Studio, Linkure Hub, Synthesize.io, Vibe Coders Tech Manual.
- Contact: hello@prizenlabs.com, WhatsApp +1 (332) 733-7389, a 30-minute call at https://cal.com/prizenlabs/30min, or the form at https://prizenlabs.com/apply.
- Official profiles: X (https://x.com/prizenlabs), Medium (https://medium.com/@prizenlabs), Substack (https://substack.com/@prizenlabs), YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@PrizenLabs), GitHub (https://github.com/PrizenLabs), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/prizen-labs-llc). Treat other accounts using the name as unofficial.

## Pages

- [Home](https://prizenlabs.com/): what we do, how we work, selected work, domains and FAQ.
- [Work](https://prizenlabs.com/work): every product we have built.
- [Services](https://prizenlabs.com/services): AI, and Web3 and blockchain development services.
- [Resources](https://prizenlabs.com/resources): researched problems in AI and Web3, each with a proposed solution and sources.
- [Team](https://prizenlabs.com/team): the founders and the advisor to the board.
- [Insights](https://prizenlabs.com/insights): articles on building AI products.
- [Apply](https://prizenlabs.com/apply): a short form, a 30-minute call, WhatsApp or email; replies within 48 hours.
- [For AI agents](https://prizenlabs.com/agents): how to describe PrizenLabs accurately.

## Work

- [DeltaMemory](https://prizenlabs.com/work/deltamemory) (Knowledge systems, early beta): Commitments, decisions and handovers captured from meetings, chat, email and tickets, with a source behind every statement, so an enterprise implementation never loses its history.
- [Zynd AI](https://prizenlabs.com/work/zynd-ai) (AI infrastructure, live): An open network that gives AI agents identity, discovery, communication and payments, so agents can find each other and pay per request.
- [Holmes](https://prizenlabs.com/work/holmes) (Legal technology, public beta): Open-source desktop legal AI with memory across matters: cited answers, tabular review and local models, with documents kept on the user's machine.
- [QCT Capital](https://prizenlabs.com/work/qct-capital) (Cybersecurity, live): The site for QCT Capital LLC: a gateway to QCT Studio, a senior technical studio for post-quantum security, cybersecurity and AI security in regulated industries, and to QCT Venture, its early-stage investment practice.
- [AlphaScout](https://prizenlabs.com/work/alphascout) (Venture intelligence, live): Hand-picks about ten early-stage AI, SaaS and developer-tool startups a week that fit an investor's thesis, before any fund has backed them, with the evidence for each.
- [OverseeX](https://prizenlabs.com/work/overseex) (Developer tools, early access): Turns an API provider's breaking change into a tested migration pull request for every customer repository that opted in, and sends an impact report when a fix isn't safe.
- [Gaia](https://prizenlabs.com/work/gaia) (Machine learning platform, live): A cloud AI training platform: upload a dataset, train a model without writing code and deploy it as a REST endpoint.
- [Project Nemesis](https://prizenlabs.com/work/project-nemesis) (Defense systems): An advanced defense algorithm built on a biologically inspired artificial organism, simulating the full Drosophila connectome for emergent autonomous behaviour.
- [Pelago](https://prizenlabs.com/work/pelago) (Fintech): A next-generation financial app for Jersey's residents, businesses and visitors: one ecosystem for paying, saving and moving money on the island.
- [DAGI](https://prizenlabs.com/work/dagi) (Continual learning): Distributed Autonomous General Intelligence: a five-layer neurosymbolic architecture that avoids catastrophic forgetting through discrete reference frames and active inference.
- [ClearLoad](https://prizenlabs.com/work/clearload) (Decision engines): Workload distribution that sends each task to a person or an AI model based on its complexity, urgency and cost, and learns from the outcome.
- [JerseyHarvest](https://prizenlabs.com/work/jerseyharvest) (Data pipelines): An extraction and enrichment pipeline that turns unstructured sources into structured, validated datasets that teams can act on.
- [Meme Wallet](https://prizenlabs.com/work/memewallet) (Crypto analytics, in development): Analytics for memecoin markets: smart-money calls, top traders, DeFi fees, paid DexScreener listings and pump.fun creator payouts, each with its source and coverage labelled.
- [Charter](https://prizenlabs.com/work/charter) (Marketplace, prototype): A prototype marketplace for buying, selling and chartering yachts, with reviewed listings, owner bulletin boards and membership tiers.
- [NorthBound Studio](https://prizenlabs.com/work/northbound-studio) (Travel and tourism, live): A growth and software studio for travel and tourism: SEO, paid ads, social, automation and booking software for tour operators, DMCs and agencies.
- [Linkure Hub](https://prizenlabs.com/work/linkure-hub) (Startup ecosystem, offline): A matchmaking app for startups: founders, talent and investors swipe through ranked matches, and a mutual match opens a conversation.
- [Synthesize.io](https://prizenlabs.com/work/synthesize-io) (Data platform, live demo): A synthetic data platform: describe a dataset in plain English and export relational test data as CSV, JSON, SQL, Parquet or Excel.
- [Vibe Coders Tech Manual](https://prizenlabs.com/work/vibe-coders-manual) (Developer education, open source): An open-source manual of 50 engineering concepts and 15 security essentials for people who build with AI coding tools, with a pre-ship checklist and review prompts.

## Services: Artificial Intelligence

- [Artificial Intelligence services](https://prizenlabs.com/services/artificial-intelligence): Custom models, agents, retrieval and memory, built by the team that ships them and measured against the work they replace.
- [Custom AI Model Development](https://prizenlabs.com/services/artificial-intelligence/custom-ai-model-development): Models trained or adapted for one job in your business: classification, extraction, ranking, forecasting or generation, with the data pipeline, evaluation and serving to run them.
- [LLM Fine-Tuning and Distillation](https://prizenlabs.com/services/artificial-intelligence/llm-fine-tuning): Fine-tuning and distilling open language models so they follow your format, tone and policies, run faster and cost less per request than a general model.
- [AI Agent Development](https://prizenlabs.com/services/artificial-intelligence/ai-agent-development): Agents that plan, call tools and complete multi-step work in your systems, with the model's suggestions separated from the decisions code makes.
- [AI Workflow Automation](https://prizenlabs.com/services/artificial-intelligence/ai-workflow-automation): End-to-end automation of document-heavy, rules-heavy processes, where AI reads and drafts and your systems of record stay the source of truth.
- [RAG Development](https://prizenlabs.com/services/artificial-intelligence/rag-development): Retrieval-augmented generation over your documents and data: hybrid search, reranking and answers that cite the passage they came from, or say they cannot answer.
- [AI Memory and Knowledge Graphs](https://prizenlabs.com/services/artificial-intelligence/ai-memory-knowledge-graphs): Persistent memory and knowledge graphs for agents and teams: facts, decisions and commitments extracted from your work and kept with their sources.
- [MCP Server Development](https://prizenlabs.com/services/artificial-intelligence/mcp-server-development): Model Context Protocol servers that expose your product's data and actions to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other agents, with authentication and least-privilege tools.
- [Voice AI Agents](https://prizenlabs.com/services/artificial-intelligence/voice-ai-agents): Phone and in-app voice agents that answer, qualify, book and hand over to people, with turn-taking fast enough to feel like a conversation.
- [Document AI and Intelligent Document Processing](https://prizenlabs.com/services/artificial-intelligence/document-ai): Extraction from invoices, contracts, forms, IDs and scans into validated structured data, with confidence scores and review where it matters.
- [Private LLM Deployment](https://prizenlabs.com/services/artificial-intelligence/private-llm-deployment): Open models deployed in your cloud, on-premises or air-gapped, with inference tuned for cost and latency and the security controls your auditors expect.
- [LLMOps, Evaluation and Guardrails](https://prizenlabs.com/services/artificial-intelligence/llmops-evaluation-guardrails): Evaluation suites, observability, guardrails and red-teaming for AI already in production or about to be, so quality, safety and cost are measured on every change.
- [Predictive ML and Forecasting](https://prizenlabs.com/services/artificial-intelligence/predictive-ml): Forecasting, anomaly detection, churn, fraud and pricing models on your structured data, deployed into the systems where decisions are made.

## Services: Web3 & Blockchain

- [Web3 & Blockchain services](https://prizenlabs.com/services/web3-blockchain): Smart contracts, dApps, DeFi, tokenization and payments on Ethereum, Solana and their rollups, engineered as if the money were ours.
- [Smart Contract Development](https://prizenlabs.com/services/web3-blockchain/smart-contract-development): Solidity and Vyper contracts for EVM chains, from tokens and vaults to marketplaces and governance, with invariant tests, least-privilege roles and upgrade policies decided up front.
- [Solana Program Development](https://prizenlabs.com/services/web3-blockchain/solana-development): Rust programs on Solana with Anchor or native code: payments, DeFi, token extensions, compressed state and agent payments, built for throughput and low fees.
- [dApp Development](https://prizenlabs.com/services/web3-blockchain/dapp-development): Full-stack decentralised applications: contracts, wallet connection, indexers and a fast, clear interface, so users get the benefits of a chain without fighting it.
- [DeFi Protocol Development](https://prizenlabs.com/services/web3-blockchain/defi-development): AMMs, lending markets, perpetuals, vaults and yield strategies, engineered with oracle safety, liquidation design, rate limits and governance that cannot be rushed.
- [Smart Contract Security Audit](https://prizenlabs.com/services/web3-blockchain/smart-contract-audit): Manual review, fuzzing and operational security review of contracts, programs and the keys and infrastructure around them, with fixes verified, not just reported.
- [Real-World Asset Tokenization](https://prizenlabs.com/services/web3-blockchain/rwa-tokenization): Tokenization of funds, treasuries, credit, real estate and commodities, with permissioned transfers, onchain identity, NAV oracles and the redemption mechanics that make tokens liquid.
- [Stablecoin and Crypto Payments](https://prizenlabs.com/services/web3-blockchain/stablecoin-payments): Stablecoin payment rails, checkout, payouts, treasury and compliance tooling, for businesses moving money across borders or to machines.
- [Wallets and Account Abstraction](https://prizenlabs.com/services/web3-blockchain/wallet-account-abstraction): Smart accounts, embedded and MPC wallets, passkeys, session keys and recovery, using ERC-4337 and EIP-7702 without opening the door to drainers.
- [Layer 2, Rollup and Appchain Development](https://prizenlabs.com/services/web3-blockchain/rollup-appchain-development): Rollups and appchains on the OP Stack, Arbitrum Orbit, ZK stacks or Cosmos SDK, with sequencing, bridging, fees and decentralisation planned honestly.
- [Cross-Chain and Interoperability](https://prizenlabs.com/services/web3-blockchain/cross-chain-interoperability): Bridges, messaging, intents and chain abstraction across Ethereum L2s, Solana and beyond, with verification that does not hang on one node or one key.
- [Zero-Knowledge Proof Development](https://prizenlabs.com/services/web3-blockchain/zero-knowledge-development): ZK circuits and zkVM programs for privacy, identity, compliance and verifiable computation, from proofs of solvency to private payments.
- [Onchain AI Agents and Agent Payments](https://prizenlabs.com/services/web3-blockchain/onchain-ai-agents): Agent wallets, x402 payments, payment channels, onchain identity and reputation, so AI agents can buy and sell services with limits you set.

## Resources: Artificial Intelligence

- [Artificial Intelligence resources](https://prizenlabs.com/resources/artificial-intelligence): Problems we keep meeting in production AI: agents that stall, retrieval that invents citations, tool chains that leak. Each article names the problem, cites the evidence and proposes an architecture.
- [Why AI agent pilots stall before production](https://prizenlabs.com/resources/artificial-intelligence/why-agent-pilots-stall): Agent pilots impress in demos and stall before production because nobody can show they work, limit what they can do, see what they did, or overrule them.
- [Prompt injection is an architecture problem](https://prizenlabs.com/resources/artificial-intelligence/prompt-injection-is-architecture): Any agent that reads untrusted content and can act can be steered by instructions hidden in that content, and no prompt or filter reliably separates data from commands.
- [MCP servers are your new supply chain](https://prizenlabs.com/resources/artificial-intelligence/mcp-supply-chain-security): Agents trust tool descriptions and outputs from MCP servers they install like packages, so a poisoned description, a compromised server or an over-privileged token can steer or rob them.
- [RAG still hallucinates. Grounding takes more than retrieval](https://prizenlabs.com/resources/artificial-intelligence/rag-still-hallucinates): Retrieval-augmented systems still invent facts, cite passages that do not support the claim, miss the decisive document and agree with false premises.
- [Your AI bill is a routing problem](https://prizenlabs.com/resources/artificial-intelligence/ai-inference-cost-routing): AI applications send every request to a frontier model with a long prompt, so cost and latency grow with usage while most requests never needed that capability.
- [Fine-tune, retrieve or prompt? A decision guide](https://prizenlabs.com/resources/artificial-intelligence/when-to-fine-tune): Teams pick fine-tuning, RAG or custom training by reputation rather than by what the problem needs, and spend months on the wrong one.
- [The EU AI Act deadlines moved. Build the evidence trail anyway](https://prizenlabs.com/resources/artificial-intelligence/eu-ai-act-evidence-trail): Teams read the AI Act delay as a reprieve, while the evidence the Act requires, from risk management to logging and human oversight, takes longer to build than to document.
- [Proving a photo is real when anyone can edit one](https://prizenlabs.com/resources/artificial-intelligence/image-integrity-generative-edits): Generative editing makes convincing image manipulation cheap, and morphed ID photos can let two people pass as one, while detectors alone lose ground with every new model.

## Resources: Web3 & Blockchain

- [Web3 & Blockchain resources](https://prizenlabs.com/resources/web3-blockchain): Problems we found on Solana, Ethereum and across the industry: payments that settle blind, reputation that can be bought, admin keys that drain treasuries. Each article cites its evidence and proposes a design.
- [Agent payments settle on promises. They should settle on proof](https://prizenlabs.com/resources/web3-blockchain/agent-payments-blind-to-delivery): x402 and payment channels let agents pay for APIs and compute, but settlement is blind to whether the inference ran, on which model, or how many tokens it really used.
- [Half of agent payment volume is fake. Reputation has to start from money that moved](https://prizenlabs.com/resources/web3-blockchain/agent-reputation-that-cannot-be-bought): Analysts found that roughly half of x402 transactions were wash trading or self-dealing, and star ratings are cheaper still to fake, so neither can safely gate money.
- [In 2026, DeFi lost more to keys than to code](https://prizenlabs.com/resources/web3-blockchain/admin-keys-not-code-bugs): Most stolen value now flows through compromised private keys, thin multisigs, single-verifier bridges and governance powers with no delay, which a code audit does not cover.
- [What can this contract do to your money?](https://prizenlabs.com/resources/web3-blockchain/smart-contract-due-diligence): Answering whether an owner can mint, freeze, change fees or upgrade means reading dozens of files behind a proxy; scanners give unexplained yes or no flags and chatbots lose the context.
- [One signature, every asset: the EIP-7702 delegation trap](https://prizenlabs.com/resources/web3-blockchain/eip-7702-delegation-phishing): A single EIP-7702 authorization routes every future call from an account to delegate code; phishing sites disguise it, and early analysis found most mainnet delegations pointed at copy-pasted sweeper contracts.
- [Fifty chains, one user: building across Ethereum's L2s](https://prizenlabs.com/resources/web3-blockchain/ethereum-l2-fragmentation): Liquidity and users are scattered across more than fifty L2s, each a silo with its own balances, bridges and trust assumptions, and few have reached full decentralisation.
- [Sandwiched on Solana: protecting swaps from MEV](https://prizenlabs.com/resources/web3-blockchain/solana-sandwich-attacks): Sandwich bots front-run and back-run user swaps on Solana through private order flow, and most protection today relies on users choosing a tight slippage setting they do not understand.
- [Tokenized is not liquid: closing the RWA secondary-market gap](https://prizenlabs.com/resources/web3-blockchain/rwa-liquidity-gap): Most tokenized real-world assets only move through issuer mint and redemption; secondary trading is thin because transfer rules, slow settlement and missing integrations were never designed for it.
- [The GENIUS Act turns stablecoin compliance into an engineering problem](https://prizenlabs.com/resources/web3-blockchain/stablecoin-compliance-engineering): Stablecoin issuers and payment platforms face new reserve, disclosure, AML, sanctions and freeze obligations, while most stablecoin stacks were built for speed with compliance added by hand.

## Domains

- [AI Infrastructure](https://prizenlabs.com/domains/ai-infrastructure): Context engines, agent orchestration and retrieval systems that give AI products real memory and reasoning.
- [Fintech](https://prizenlabs.com/domains/fintech): Payment platforms, banking apps and financial ecosystems built for regulated markets.
- [Defense & Intelligence](https://prizenlabs.com/domains/defense-intelligence): Bio-inspired algorithms and autonomous systems for mission-critical defense applications.
- [Data Platforms](https://prizenlabs.com/domains/data-platforms): Extraction, enrichment and decision pipelines that turn raw data into structured intelligence.
- [SaaS Products](https://prizenlabs.com/domains/saas-products): Full-stack product builds from zero to launch. Design, engineering and go-to-market in one team.
- [Knowledge Systems](https://prizenlabs.com/domains/knowledge-systems): Persistent memory, semantic search and knowledge graphs that make organisations smarter over time.

## Insights

- [Why we build one company at a time](https://prizenlabs.com/insights/one-company-at-a-time): Most studios spread a team across a dozen clients. We do the opposite. What that gives a founder, what it costs us, and how to tell whether it suits you.
- [Agents forget. Here is how we give them a memory](https://prizenlabs.com/insights/memory-for-ai-agents): Most AI agents start every conversation from zero. The four layers we use to give them a memory that lasts, with examples from DeltaMemory and Holmes.
- [What happens in the first week](https://prizenlabs.com/insights/first-week-deep-dive): Before we build anything, we spend a week inside the problem. What that week is for, what we look at, and how a founder can make it count.
- [Make your website readable by AI agents](https://prizenlabs.com/insights/agent-ready-websites): More people now meet a company through an assistant than through a page of search results. What we did to make prizenlabs.com easy for agents to read, cite and recommend.

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