AI studio — San Diego, CA
We build AIagents, automations, and products that shipautomationsagentsthat ship.
Backland Labs is an AI studio in San Diego. We help companies take AI from idea to production, and we host the city's largest community of AI builders.
What we do
AI engineering for companies that want results, not experiments.
01
Strategy and discovery
We find the highest-value AI use cases in your operations and validate them with working prototypes, not slide decks.
02
Agents and automation
We build production AI agents and automations that plug into the systems your team already runs.
03
AI product development
We take customer-facing AI products from first prototype to launch.
The community behind the studio
We host the room where San Diego builds AI.
Every month, 133+ builders from companies like Intuit, Qualcomm, ServiceNow, Google, and Microsoft show up to our events to share what's actually working in AI.
That room keeps our client work honest. We see what's shipping across dozens of teams before we recommend anything to yours.
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Founder
Led by an engineer who ships.
Backland Labs is led by Max Krueger, an AI engineer and community builder. He led client teams at Casper Studios and has shipped as a data engineer, software engineer, and tech lead. Every engagement gets his direct attention.