Ember Labs — Adelaide, Australia
Most businesses don't need more software. They need someone to check first.
Ember Labs is three ways of doing the same thing: finding out what's really going on in a business, then building whatever actually moves it — a piece of software, a plan, or both.
Ember Stories: free sample, no credit card. Working through something bigger? Start with a strategy session.
Two ways in
Pick the one that matches what you're trying to solve.
Same business behind both. Different job.
Self-serve product
Keep the feed alive, on autopilot.
Ember reads your business, drafts on-brand posts in your voice, and waits for your tap before anything goes out. No strategy call, no onboarding queue — see it working on your own business today.
Done for you
Get the plan or the platform built around your business — not a template.
Start with a strategy session. We find out what's actually going on, write it down, and the report routes to a strategy engagement, a bespoke app build, or both. Nothing gets built until we both know it's the right thing to build.
How the work with us path goes
One diagnosis. Then it goes wherever the business actually needs it.
Start with the truth about the business, not a quote.
Strategy Session + Report
We spend time in the business — the numbers, the bottlenecks, what's actually costing money or time. You get a written report: what's wrong, what it's costing, and what we'd do about it. No pitch buried inside it. If it turns into a build within 60 days, the session fee comes off the build price.
Strategy engagement
If the fix is in how the business runs — pricing, offer, operations — we work it through with you from there. Priced off the report, not off a rate card.
App build — fixed price from your scope
If the fix is a piece of software, we build it. Yours — not a licensed template, not "the same thing we sold the last client." Built off the diagnosis, so it's solving the actual problem, not a guess at one.
If we don't deliver what's defined in your strategy report, the final milestone isn't invoiced.
Run — $49–99/mo
Once it's live, we keep it running — hosting, fixes, small improvements. The platform keeps earning long after the build's paid for itself.
A build like this typically pays for itself inside the first year. After that, everything it earns is the business's, every year, without a second invoice from anyone.
The usual route to custom software is a six-month agency build starting around $30,000, with every change after kickoff billed separately. The strategy session tells you — before either of you commits to that number — whether the business actually needs it.
Case files
Case studies coming soon.
Our first builds are underway. Detailed case studies go up here as they complete and clients are happy to be named — real diagnoses, real builds, no invented numbers or borrowed logos.
How we work
Diagnose. Build. Run.
The same three steps, every time.
Diagnose
The strategy session. We find out what's actually going on before either of us commits to anything bigger.
Build
A strategy engagement, a bespoke app, or both — whichever the diagnosis actually points to. Never decided in advance.
Run
We keep it alive for $49–99/mo. The point was never a one-off build — it's something that keeps earning.
Questions worth asking
Before you get in touch
Ember Stories is a product — self-serve software you sign up for and run yourself. "Work with us" is us doing the diagnosis and, where it's needed, the build — a person, not a login.
Because a free strategy call has to end in a sales pitch to be worth our time — that's how most "free strategy sessions" work, and it shows. Paying for it means we can tell you the truth, including "you don't need us for this," and the report is still worth having either way.
You get it in writing, no matter what. It routes one of three ways: a strategy engagement, an app build, or both. If it's neither, you've still got a clear diagnosis — cheaper than guessing.
Yes. It's built for your business, not licensed to it.
Hosting, fixes, and keeping it running. It's not a subscription to keep using something you already own — it's what it costs to keep the lights on.
You're not paying for six months of an agency finding its feet on your business — the strategy session already did that, which is often what makes the total cheaper, not just the sticker price.