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Now Cheap Code Is Everywhere.
Expensive Failure
Is, Too.

AI made coding cheap. Congratulations—now you can fail faster than ever, with consequences at scale. I take your vague, high-concept, half-formed idea and turn it into a working proof of concept that survives reality.

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What Locked Lab Is For

Direction + execution by an expert technologist who can see the hidden system, name the constraint, and ship the prototype that proves what's real.

Foggy Problems

Nobody can define it cleanly. That's exactly where I start.

  • Constraint Analysis
  • System Mapping
  • Hypothesis Testing
  • Problem Reframing

Ideas With Teeth

A prototype you can run. Not a promise you can repeat.

  • Cross-Discipline Builds
  • Rapid Prototyping
  • Architecture Design
  • Security by Design

Secure Execution

First version. Done quietly, correctly, and fast.

  • Serverless & Edge Infra
  • Privacy-Preserving Systems
  • Protocol Design
  • Open Source Foundations

How It Works

Five steps. No ticket queue. One accountable brain on your problem from start to ship.

Things That Didn't Exist Until They Did

I've made real, weird, difficult things.
Here are some of them.

Wolf McNally — Principal, LOCKED LAB

I'm Wolf.

Software engineer, systems thinker, digital sovereignty advocate. Principal at Locked Lab.

I've spent 8+ years as Lead Researcher at Blockchain Commons, building open protocols for privacy and authenticity in a world full of surveillance and deepfakes. Before that, I shipped games, built iOS apps, and discovered that the most interesting problems sit at the intersection of disciplines nobody thought to combine.

I created Flying Logic because Theory of Constraints needed better software. I built LifeHash because humans deserve to verify cryptographic identities without reading hex strings. I wrote Gordian Envelope because documents needed to be signed, selectively disclosed, and still verifiable.

I don't sell optimism. I build the thing.

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Full ownership requires
a small roster.

I take a small number of clients at a time because the work requires full ownership. If you want someone to care like it's theirs, you're in the right place.

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