01Live Intelligence
Concerts
Ticketmaster's listings read in your browser with nothing invented; on test day, only two days deep.
Set against Songkick, Bandsintown, Ticketmaster Discovery API
ė.ink · reviews in red ink
We draw each tool before we judge it.
Ten tools from labs.llc, each drawn as a diagram of where its facts come from and where the work is done, then measured, set beside two or three named tools from elsewhere on the web, and marked in red where it goes further and in pencil where it does not.
Published by LABS, the studio that builds labs.llc. We are reviewing our own work.
How to read a drawing
The ten, sorted by where the work happens
Ten drawings, five kinds of plumbing
The tools were drawn at random from the labs.llc catalogue. We sorted them by the one thing every drawing shows first: whether the work happens in your browser, in a small relay, in a file shipped with the page, or on a server.
Straight from the source to your browser
No server of ours in the middle: the page asks the public source itself, and every answer is handled on your machine.
3 tools
06Studio & Tools
Word Lab
Seven drawers and a two-source dictionary; in our test the first dictionary failed twice and the fallback caught it.
Set against RhymeZone, OneLook
09Markets & Capital
Money
Official fixings with the day on every figure; the Treasury feed was slower than the page's 15-second limit.
Set against Xe Currency Converter, Wise currency converter, US Treasury par yield curve page
Through a narrow relay on the tool’s own site
Where a source will not talk to a browser, a small relay on the same site fetches it, and is written so it can fetch nothing else.
2 tools
02Live Intelligence
Flights
A radar scope that never guesses a position, behind a relay that cannot be pointed anywhere else.
Set against Flightradar24, ADS-B Exchange, adsb.lol
03Markets & Capital
Prior Art
Writes one patent search correctly for five engines and logs what you missed; two feeds were down on test day.
Set against Google Patents, The Lens, PATENTSCOPE
Data shipped with the page
The facts arrive once, as a file built beforehand; after that, the work is done in your browser and nothing further is asked of anyone.
3 tools
04Live Intelligence
Undersea
701 cables drawn by the page's own code, offline once loaded, and dated 28 August 2026.
Set against TeleGeography Submarine Cable Map, Submarine Networks, Infrapedia
05Consumer Brands
47th Street
A trade directory that removed 953 generated records and says so; in New York, its home market, only 51 of 172 entries are confirmed.
Set against Seybold Jewelry Building directory, Diamond District Store Directory
08Live Intelligence
ORBIT
Its own SGP4 engine agrees with the reference to 9.8e-11 km; its elements were 31.7 days old.
Set against Heavens-Above, N2YO, CelesTrak
Your own sound, on your own machine
The input is the microphone or a file you drop; the analysis never leaves the page.
1 tool
07Diversions
VIZZI
A visualiser that measures first: raw microphone, one analysis for twelve tiles, a VU meter to the ANSI ballistics.
Set against Butterchurn, Webamp, Specterr
On the site’s own server
The one tool whose work is mostly server-side: the host lists, guards and shrinks the pictures before your browser sees them.
1 tool
10Live Intelligence
Mediawall
A one-file PHP photo wall that gets thumbnails and folder privacy right; on our copy it had no pictures to show.
Set against PhotoPrism, Immich
The rules we hold ourselves to
Red ink has to be earned
- Every claim about a labs tool cites its source. A file and line number, or a measurement with the minute it was taken.
- Every rival was read on the day. What it does better is written down first, in pencil, before anything is claimed in red.
- Every review names a real failing. Most name four or five, several of them found in our own test.
- No scores, no stars. The people who build these tools publish this site; a number from us would be worth nothing.