The Stele Labs blog

Notes from a company that builds software and the marketing around it. Engineering deep-dives, brand and growth playbooks, and the occasional behind-the-scenes on how we ship our own products.

EngineeringJun 2026

Why we build our own products before we build yours

The story behind treating Stele Labs as our toughest client, and what shipping our own platform taught us about shipping client software.

DesignMay 2026

Designing a brand system that survives contact with a product UI

How we keep a brand identity coherent from the pitch deck all the way down to a button state — and why design tokens are a marketing decision.

GrowthMay 2026

The growth experiments that actually moved our pipeline

A candid look at the tests we ran on our own funnel, the ones that failed, and the handful that compounded.

EngineeringApr 2026

From monolith to modular: a migration we did in production

A field report on modernizing a legacy system without a big-bang rewrite — the kind of work we do for clients, done on ourselves first.

CompanyApr 2026

What "one company" means when you do software and marketing

Why we refuse to run our engineering and marketing practices as separate agencies, and how that changes the work.

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