I'm Jason Clark, founder of Black&Tan Labs. Thirty years moving between design and technology — and a practice built to give businesses of every size access to the kind of implementation work they've always deserved.
Learn moreBlack&Tan Labs is an AI implementation studio where contrasts get put to work - structure and fluidity, intuition and logic, creativity and technology. We design and build tools and systems that hold the tension instead of collapsing it.
I'm a designer and builder who started out as an architect and never really stopped making things. Thirty years later - across architecture, product design, software engineering, and AI - I built Black&Tan Labs as a place to put all of it to work for the businesses that actually run the world.
The lab grew out of a simple observation: most business problems aren't waiting for a new platform. They're waiting for one careful tool, fitted to the actual workflow. Most businesses never get one - not because the technology doesn't exist, but because no one has taken the time to understand the problem well enough to build for it.
The work doesn't stop when the client work does. I design toys, 3D print things I've sketched on a napkin, write more than I publish, and keep a running list of problems I want to solve - six of which are currently in the lab. When you work the way I do, side projects aren't distractions. They're where the ideas come from.
I'm based in Chicago, but I work wherever the work is good. Discovery sessions happen in person - your office, your operations floor, your team's space on a Tuesday morning. The distance has never stopped a good engagement. It helps that I love to travel - most client trips find a way to include a few extra days somewhere worth exploring.
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