About Dabble Lab

Dabble Lab is a research and development agency. We work across a range of disciplines with a focus on AI workflow automation. We're driven to inspire, educate, and enable people to do more with less.

We're a global group of technology optimists, engineers, and system thinkers with team members in over 16 countries across five continents. Since our launch in 2015, we've worked on projects in collaboration with Amazon, Google, OpenAI, Twilio, United Talent Agency, Verizon, and many other amazing organizations.

We don't have customers or employees in the traditional sense. We collaborate with forward thinking organizations and individuals on impactful projects that are beneficial for all. We're purposeful about the projects we take on but practical and pragmatic about the services and solutions we provide.

Our mission

Our mission at Dabble Lab is to leverage technology to allow people to focus on the things that matter most. While our day-to-day activities vary, our mission does not.

Our mission at Dabble Lab is to leverage technology to allow people to focus on the things that matter most.

Behind our mission are our values. They frame our open-minded, “always learning, always dabbling” culture; and they guide every key decision we make.

Our values

We believe the alignment of personal and professional values is essential for establishing a sustainable work/life balance. We also belive teams with aligned values perform better and are more enjoyable to be a part of. For those reasons and many more we've outlined our core values here.

Personal Fulfillment

Individual happiness and well-being come first at Dabble Lab. We reflect on what we want from our work and let it be known. We want our personal and professional lives to be genuinely fulfilling. Everyday doesn't need to be perfect, but minimally, we want to enjoy a feeling of purpose and accomplishment from the things we do.

Our relationship to work is similar to that of an artist — none of us would stop as soon as we made enough money. Simply put, at Dabble Lab work shouldn't feel like a chore — we hate chores, which is one of the reasons why we're so passionate about automation.

Pragmatic Idealism

We are pragmatic idealists — we're idealistic, but practical in how we approach our ideals. We want to contribute to making a world where automation enables everyone to live freely and happily without financial concerns. While this is a lofty goal, we prefer to believe that it's possible.

We dream big, but we also sweat the details. We ignore pessimism, and prefer to believe that we have some control over our destinies. We figure the worst case scenario is we tried our best to make the world a little bit more enjoyable. We dream, we dabble, we plan, we work.

Accountability

Mistakes are learning opportunities, but carelessness is not learning. As individuals and a team, we take responsibility for our actions and outcomes. When we make commitments, we follow through. If something looks like it will interfere with our ability to follow through, we make sure the appropriate people know well in advance.

If we can't accept a responsibility, we don't. We're not perfect, but when we make mistakes, we own and accept them as learning opportunities. But we don't accept careless work, bad habits, or offloaded blame. When we take on leadership roles, we are accountable for our own actions and outcomes along with those of everyone we lead.

Respect

Dabble Lab is made up of people from all over the world with a wide array of identities, experiences, and perspectives. We don't discriminate with regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, gender identity and expression, or genetic information.

But beyond accepting others' identities, at Dabble Lab, we believe everyone who's motivated is capable of contributing something valuable. We are patient with language barriers and learning curves. We assume if someone doesn't understand something, that doesn't mean they don't have the capacity to learn.

Equality

Everyone on our team is equal. No factor gives anyone special privileges over anyone else. Not how long someone has worked at Dabble Lab. Not someone's past accomplishments. Everyone should feel comfortable talking with anyone — even if you don't work with them directly. We all speak up in meetings and share our ideas and insights candidly.

Everyone's voice is valid. We prefer to speak with each other openly and directly. We avoid formalities and always address one another directly but respectfully. Equality is not just part of our approach to work, but an ideal that we believe applies to all people. We don't want to live in a world where everyone is the same, and we celebrate the qualities that make people distinct, interesting, and valuable.

Diligence

We treat our work like artists do and put our souls into it. We define key success metrics before we start a project and each of us strives to be the very best in our respective role. As individuals and as a team, our primary goals are always to exceed expectations and produce the highest quality work possible. Quality work is effective, stable, efficient, organized, validated, well-designed, throughly considered, and aesthetic.

We're meticulous, thoughtful, and highly disciplined. We define objective measures of success before we start any project. We are artists, and we take our craft seriously — but we have a lot of fun along the way.

Collaboration

We know we're stronger working together than apart. To facilitate collaboration, we speak openly and directly to one another. We make each other aware of problems we're facing, so that we can help each other find solutions.

We agree that collaboration does not mean consensus. If one of us disagrees, we speak up, and use logic and data to back up our arguments. We avoid overcomplicating and over-intellectualizing ideas that could be simpler. We are transparent about where we are currently, and where we hope to be in the future.

Growth

As individuals and as a team, we're always looking to grow into better versions of ourselves. Always be dabbling, always be learning, always be growing. The only constant is change. So, continually challenging ourselves is essentail for personal growth and living truly fulfilled lives.