About 14peakslab
We started this firm because most AI consulting is theatre.
14 peaks, one summit attempt at a time. We help operators turn AI from a buzzword into a line item that pays for itself.
Why 14peakslab
Built by people who have actually shipped this stuff.
Most AI consulting today looks like this: a six-month discovery, a 200-slide deck, a roadmap nobody owns, and a bill at the end. The AI never quite makes it to production, and the operators who paid for it are right back where they started — except more cynical.
We started 14peakslab to be the opposite of that. We sit with your operators. We watch real workflows. We build working software in weeks. We instrument it so you can see the numbers move. And we hand the keys back when you're ready to run it without us.
The name comes from the 14 peaks above 8,000m — every one summited, but never the same way twice. AI in your business works the same way. There's a path. It's climbable. But you need someone who's been up before.
Mission
AI work that actually ships, and a team that owns it after we leave.
Our values
Four things we don't budge on.
Outcomes over outputs
Pretty dashboards don't pay back invoices. We measure ourselves on the numbers your CFO actually cares about.
Ship it
We'd rather ship a working v1 in week three than a perfect v0 in month nine. The market rewards speed compounded by feedback.
Trust before autonomy
AI gets human review until it earns the right to act alone. We don't optimize for impressiveness — we optimize for safety and trust.
Hand the keys back
Our job ends when your team owns it. We document, train, and leave you with software you can run, fork, and extend.
The team
Small team. High signal.
We're deliberately small. Every engagement is staffed by senior engineers only — the same person from first call to handoff. No account managers, no juniors learning on your dime.
Bryan Phang
Founder & Principal
Senior engineer turned operator. Spent a decade shipping software at scale before turning the lens on AI for ops.
Maya Chen
Head of Implementation
Ex-Stripe, ex-Shopify. Has shipped more retail integrations than she can remember and most will never break.
Theo Reyes
AI Engineer
Built RAG and agent systems for finance and healthcare. Reads papers so you don't have to. Hates demoware.
Sana Iqbal
Strategy Lead
Former ops director in logistics. Translates between executives and engineers without losing anything in the middle.
Want to work with us?
We take on a small number of engagements each quarter. The next slot opens soon.