ANP Labs
We co-build and co-fund high-stakes systems with the businesses that run them, diagnose where the stakes are, build the solution in production, and, for the right partners, back it with our own capital.
// How we work
A studio that is on the hook for the outcome.
ANP Labs co-creates production-grade systems for businesses where trust, scale, and money meet. We build alongside your team, in your codebase, and where the fit is right, we back what we build with our own capital.
// 01, The model
A studio, not a consultancy.
A consultancy advises and leaves. A product company sells you a box. A studio builds, and stays. We co-create the system itself, ship it to production, and where it makes sense, back it. The work is the deliverable, not a document about the work.
Built, not advised
We don’t review your architecture from the outside. Our engineers work in your codebase, against your real constraints, shipping software that goes to production. The diagnostic is the only thing that resembles a document, and even that is a build plan.
On the hook for the outcome
Co-build means shared risk. Co-fund means our own capital in the result. A studio that backs what it builds has to be right, that pressure is the point, and it is the opposite of a deck.
// 02, House of ANP
One studio. Its own ventures, and partners’ systems.
ANP Labs is the studio. It co-builds high-stakes systems, some as its own ventures, some alongside partners, and backs the ones it believes in. The portfolio is intentionally lean: we’d rather name one real thing than pad a list.
Ventures
Some of what we build is our own. The first venture is in construction, software that helps large firms see and control where operational money leaks. Early, and in active development.
Partners
For a small number of partners, we build alongside their team, in their codebase, on the hook for whether it runs, and co-fund it where the fit is right.
// 03, How we work
An engagement spectrum, not a price list.
Most partners start with a diagnostic. Where it goes depends on what you’re building and how deep the work runs, but co-building is the centre of gravity.
- Start here
Diagnose
We find where the stakes actually are, where your system becomes something you can’t afford to get wrong, what breaks there, and what has to exist before it does.
A written build plan: where the line is, and what has to exist before you cross it.
- The core
Co-build
We build the solution with you. Engineers in your codebase, against your constraints, shipping to production, on the hook for whether it works. This is the studio.
A production system, co-built and shipped, yours to run.
- By invitation
Co-fund
For the right partners, we back what we build with our own capital. The deepest tier, openly part of how the studio works. By invitation.
A shared stake in the outcome, beside you. By invitation.
Built from the intersection where scale, security, and money meet.
ANP Labs is founded by Paulo Lima — 13+ years in systems where money, uptime, and identity are not optional. Core banking at HSBC and Caixa. Telecom-grade infrastructure at Avaya. Real-time perception-and-action systems at SITA Aero. Web3 gaming at platform scale at Ultra.io. Brazilian, bilingual, and building ANP Labs from that same intersection — and co-building it for everyone else who has to operate there.
- 2012 — 2017
HSBC · Caixa Econômica
Core banking platforms
- 2017 — 2018
SITA Aero
Real-time perception & action systems
- 2018 — 2022
Avaya Cloud Contact Center
Telecom-grade multi-tenant infra
- 2021 — 2025
Ultra.io
Web3 gaming at platform scale
- 2025 —
ANP Labs
Founder
CURRENT
// 05, Programs
Programs & credentials.
Memberships shown as what they are, credibility, not a headline.
- Partner Google Cloud for Startups
- Member NVIDIA Inception
- Co-author, Agentic AI Report 2026 Blockchain Game Alliance
Start with a diagnostic.
Tell us what you’re building. We’ll tell you where the high-stakes line is and what it takes to cross it safely. Not a sales call.