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Floyd’s Labs

How We Accidentally Got a Website and Now Have to Act Like We Know What We're Doing

One guy, two cats, a garage, and a stubborn belief that useful technology should make sense to the human being standing in front of it.

DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATIONREADME / CRY FOR HELP
LOCATIONProbably a garage. Maybe a barn.
BEVERAGEWhatever was left in the pot.
SANITY LEVELQuestionable at best
THE ACTUAL POINT

Built Where the Work Is Real

Floyd’s Labs is the rowdy workshop beside the more client-facing side of the business. This is where we experiment, break things safely, argue with bad assumptions, and turn the pieces that survive into tools people can actually use.

Being in rural Indiana is not a cute origin story. It is the standard. Around here, a product has to help the plumber in the crawlspace, the owner answering calls after hours, and the one-person operation doing six jobs before lunch. If it only works for a software company with a training department, it does not work yet.

Build close to the problem. Test it in real life. Keep the useful parts.

An imagined Indiana garage at dawn, with an open notebook, coffee, and two black cats beside a woodland window
003 / FIRST COFFEEBrown County state of mind.

Useful Is the Standard.

Each tool starts with a problem we want out of the way. CrystalMaze opens up architecture ideas. CLI Tools recover skills, prompts, and forgotten work. TerminalOne puts a real shell in the browser. wsdash finds loose ends. PEBKAC asks a coding agent to show its work.

The public workbench lists what each product does, what it needs, and where its limits are. Optional services can cost money. License terms differ. You should know that before downloading.

Find Your Kind of Useful

People. Cats. Chain of command.

The Team

1 guy + 2 cats. Fully staffed.

Bella checks the keyboard. Bowser watches the router. The job titles are serious. The hiring process was not.

An imagined Bella and Bowser keeping watch over the router and a small server rack in the garage
004 / ROUTER DUTYSupervision is non-negotiable.
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Douglas Talley

Founder / Guy in the Garage

Building homemade robots since age seven. Looked at hundreds per month in AI subscriptions and said, “I could build this.” Spoiler: he did.

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Bella

Senior Project Manager

Knows exactly when you’re about to ship and walks across the keyboard. Detects low coffee levels with alarming accuracy.

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Bowser

Technical Director

Knows which server will fail before it does. Has debugged more infrastructure by sitting on routers than most interns.

The BALLS Philosophy

Yes, we named the core philosophy BALLS. Yes, we stand by it.

BBuildAnything
AActAutonomously
LLaunchLean
LLearnSideways
SStaySubversive
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