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Products. Capital. Culture.

LA MANO is a private studio in London. We build software that thinks, operate in live markets, and broker music catalog deals. One hand, three crafts: the instinct of an artist, the discipline of a lab. Client work runs on the same playbook we use for ourselves. That keeps everyone honest.

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BaseLondon, UK
FocusAI · Markets · Music
ModelBuild · Operate · Advise
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01 / Services

Three crafts, one hand

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Product & MVP Engineering

You arrive with an idea. Weeks later it is software with users. We treat the build like a lab: isolate the signal, cut the noise, put AI where it actually counts, and ship before the excitement wears off. This is what an AI product studio does.

  • Zero to one MVPsFrom blank repo to real users in weeks, not quarters.
  • AI native product designAI in the core loop, not bolted on as an afterthought.
  • Rapid iteration & deploymentShip, measure, refine. Live software over slideware.
How we build
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AI & Automation Consulting

We automate the boring and the impossible. Agents that decide, pipelines that run at 4am, machines tuned until we trust them in live markets. Trust here is a measurement, not a feeling. It is earned, never assumed.

  • Autonomous agent systemsAgents that decide and act, with hard limits they cannot cross.
  • Workflow & ops automationThe 4am work, handled before anyone wakes up.
  • Quantitative toolingSignals, engines, and dashboards that turn data into moves.
How we automate
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Music Advisory & Management

We sit between catalogs and capital, reading value where others hear only noise. Music catalog brokerage and catalog M&A advisory in the mid market, plus management for Grammy nominated artists who have worked with the biggest names in the game. Taste and proof in the same set of hands.

  • Catalog brokerage & advisorySourcing, valuation, negotiation, close. Mid market deals.
  • Rights & royalty diligenceEvery stream, split, and clause read before money moves.
  • Artist managementGrammy nominated clients, careers run with intent.
How we broker
02 / Selected Work

The work speaks

Nothing here is a mockup. Every one is a tested instrument. One of these you can play right now. Click a row. What stays hidden stays hidden for a reason.
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Sample This

Music Tech · Marketplace +
Live · samplethis.com Royalty Bearing Audio Watermarking

Sample This is a royalty bearing sample library and music sample marketplace made with artists who have actually charted. License a sound, the artist gets paid, everyone sleeps well at night. Every sample carries watermarking, a signature woven into the waveform, so a sound can be traced wherever it travels after it leaves the store. We built the catalog, the store, and the payout rails ourselves.

TopCreators & writers
RoyaltyBearing. Creators earn
WatermarkedEvery sample, traceable
LiveIn market
samplethis.com Instagram
Sample This storefront. Featured artist, fresh arrivals and trending samples
The storefront. Real artists, fresh arrivals
Sample This favorites library with waveforms, keys and BPM
Your crate. Waveforms, keys, BPM, license
Beta · Access on request No Code VST · Instruments & FX

Furo builds instruments from words. Type the sound that lives in your head and a working plugin comes back: play it, bend it live while you listen, download it, make a record with it. Effects and instruments, full VSTs, zero code. State of the art audio synthesis under the hood, language turned into frequency. Still in beta. Already a little bit magic.

PromptIn, plugin out
LiveEdit while it plays
VSTDownload and use
Confidential · Under NDA Brokerage & Advisory Artist Management

We sit between catalogs and capital. LA MANO runs music catalog brokerage and catalog M&A advisory for artist catalogs and music rights in the mid market: sourcing, valuation, negotiation, close. On the other side of the desk we manage Grammy nominated clients who have worked with the biggest artists in the world. Both sides of the music business, one set of hands.

$1M to 100MDeal range
Broker+ Advisor, on the deal
GrammyNominated roster
Private · Team access M&A Intelligence AI Copilot

OptiCat is our in house SaaS for music rights acquisition, our unfair advantage in the catalog game. Every morning it scores fresh deal flow across Spotify and TikTok, separating signal from the daily noise. The team works one pipeline from first hello to signature. An AI copilot reads the contracts. A valuation engine runs the same math the majors run. We just see the board first.

4 feedsDaily deal flow
0 to 100Acquirability score
AIContracts + valuation
OptiCat advisor. From streams to deal structure in one chat
The advisor. Streams to deal structure, one chat
OptiCat discovery. Daily deal flow scored across platforms
Discovery. Daily deal flow, scored 0 to 100
OptiCat pipeline with an AI outreach agent drafting deal emails
The pipeline. An agent drafts the outreach
Private · Live deployment Autonomous Trading AI Agents

A trading system with no human in the loop, live in real markets. Momentum engine, regime overlay, hard risk limits. It survived backtest, then months of paper trading, then earned the right to go live. Every layer is an experiment that had to hold. We hold our machines to the same standard we hold people: prove it.

24/7Autonomous ops
LiveDeployment status
In houseStrategy → Execution
BURRY live trading dashboard. Portfolio, equity curve, open positions
Live ops. Positions, equity curve, bot brain
BURRY analytics. Trade heatmaps, win rate, long versus short P&L
Analytics. The bot grades its own homework
Live · aurawealth.xyz Net Worth Tracker AI Advisor

One number that tells the truth. Aura Wealth tracks everything you own in a single dashboard: stocks, crypto, real estate, the Rolex, even the trading cards. Live prices, risk distribution, an AI advisor that reads your whole portfolio as one signal. Streaks and badges keep you coming back, because the hard part of wealth was never the math. It is the habit.

5 classesStocks → Collectibles
LivePrices, every refresh
AIReads your portfolio
Try Aura Wealth
Aura Wealth dashboard. Total net worth, trend chart, asset allocation and top movers
The dashboard. One number, zero spreadsheets
Aura Wealth assets list with risk tags, XP progress, streaks and portfolio insights
Every asset, risk-tagged. Streaks keep score
Live · tryfolio.one 10 Classics Daily Bring Your Own Epub

Built for one thing: making you read more. Every day Folio deals you ten classics, free to read, listen to and download. Pick one, take your daily portion, keep the streak alive. Got your own epubs? Upload them and run them through the same machine: portions, XP, streaks. The books were always free. The habit is what we built.

10 booksDealt daily, free
2 modesRead / Listen
BYO epubSame streak machine
Try Folio
Folio home screen. Wuthering Heights, book one of ten, with read and listen buttons
Today's portion. Eight pages, read or listen
Folio reader. First page of Wuthering Heights with chapter progress
The reader. 1801 had no notifications
Folio stats. Total XP, longest streak, days and pages read, saved books
XP, streaks, your shelf. Showing up keeps score
Live · artistquest.one Game / Experience Zero Dependencies

Proof that we sweat the craft even when nobody is paying. A music industry RPG in a single file: two thousand lines of hand written engine code, zero dependencies, no build step. Run an indie label, sign legends, keep your soul. Your desktop becomes a CRT television. Your phone becomes a Game Boy. Press play.

1 fileEntire product
0Dependencies
2 modesCRT / Handheld
Play Artist Quest
▶ PLAY ARTIST QUEST Right here. No install, no signup
Artist Quest title screen inside a CRT television
CULT-O-VISION. The desktop CRT experience
Artist Quest gameplay. Harmony City overworld
Harmony City. Sign artists, keep your soul
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How we operate

Studios sell hours. Agencies sell decks. We sell the thing, working.

Every client system runs the same playbook we run for ourselves: hard gates before launch, small moves made quickly, and the discipline to kill what only demos well. Intuition opens the question. The proof closes it.

A few engagements at a time, never more. When we say yes, the whole studio leans in. One hand, fully on the work.

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Questions, answered

The short version of who we are and how we work. The longer version lives on the service pages.
What is LA MANO?

LA MANO is an independent studio in London, working worldwide. It is an AI product studio and a music catalog brokerage under one roof. We build AI-native software, operate autonomous systems in live markets, and broker music catalog deals. One hand, three crafts. Our model is build, operate, advise.

What services does LA MANO offer?

Three crafts. AI product and MVP engineering, from idea to deployed software in weeks. AI and automation consulting, building autonomous agents and quantitative tooling we trust in live markets. Music catalog M&A, covering brokerage, valuation and rights diligence, plus management for Grammy-nominated artists.

Where is LA MANO based?

London, UK, at 51.5072° N, 0.1276° W. We work with clients worldwide.

How do I work with LA MANO?

We take a few engagements at a time, by referral or pitch. Tell us what you are making through the contact form and it lands straight in our inbox. We answer within a day, with the truth, even when the truth is no.

What has LA MANO built?

Shipped work you can use today includes Sample This, a royalty-bearing music sample marketplace; Aura Wealth, a net-worth tracker with an AI advisor; Folio, a reading-habit app; and Artist Quest, a browser music-industry RPG. We also run private systems: OptiCat for music-rights intelligence and BURRY for autonomous trading.

Does LA MANO broker music catalog deals?

Yes. We advise on music catalog M&A in the mid market, the $1M to $100M deal range, covering sourcing, valuation, rights and royalty diligence, negotiation and close. We also manage Grammy-nominated artists.

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You bring the vision.
We are the hands.

Tell us what you are making. It lands straight in our inbox, signal received. We answer within a day, with the truth, even when the truth is no.