[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":199},["ShallowReactive",2],{"post-\u002Fblog\u002F2026-04-hello-vantara-labs":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"description":185,"draft":186,"extension":187,"meta":188,"navigation":189,"ogImage":190,"path":191,"publishedAt":192,"seo":193,"stem":194,"tags":195,"updatedAt":190,"__hash__":198},"blog\u002Fblog\u002F2026-04-hello-vantara-labs.md","Hello, Vantara Labs","callum-peers",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":177},"minimark",[10,14,21,26,34,37,44,47,60,64,67,95,98,102,110,131,135,138,158,166,174],[11,12,13],"p",{},"This is the first post on a brand-new blog, so the opening has to do a bit of work. Let's start here:",[11,15,16,20],{},[17,18,19],"strong",{},"Vantara Labs is a UK software studio."," We are registered in England and Wales, based in Stafford, and we ship small, sharp web apps. Some of them turn messy public datasets into something you can read without a statistics degree. Some of them help you think better about your own work.",[22,23,25],"h2",{"id":24},"why-the-world-needs-another-studio","Why the world needs another studio",[11,27,28,29,33],{},"It doesn't. What it does need, in our opinion, are more ",[30,31,32],"em",{},"tiny"," studios that care about a specific kind of craft and commit to it long enough to get good.",[11,35,36],{},"A huge amount of publicly-valuable data is hiding behind bad interfaces. US congressional stock disclosures live in PDF. UK parliamentary registers live in semi-structured HTML. Company filings live in XBRL. Reading any of it well is a job, not a browsing experience, and the commercial incentive to fix that is usually owned by organisations whose business model doesn't reward readability.",[11,38,39,40,43],{},"At the same time, a lot of valuable ",[30,41,42],{},"private"," work lives in bad interfaces too. The half-formed thought you had on a walk, the connection you didn't make between two ideas you had three months apart, the note you can't find when you actually need it. These are workflow problems that modern AI is genuinely good at solving, provided somebody builds a calm, focused tool rather than another productivity dashboard.",[11,45,46],{},"We think both categories deserve web apps that:",[48,49,50,54,57],"ul",{},[51,52,53],"li",{},"render in under a second on a phone,",[51,55,56],{},"read like a newspaper article, and",[51,58,59],{},"put the answer on the first screen.",[22,61,63],{"id":62},"what-were-actually-shipping","What we're actually shipping",[11,65,66],{},"Two products, one brand:",[48,68,69,86],{},[51,70,71,78,79,85],{},[72,73,75],"a",{"href":74},"\u002Fproducts\u002Fpelosi-tracker",[17,76,77],{},"Pelosi Tracker",", our first product, live at ",[72,80,84],{"href":81,"rel":82},"https:\u002F\u002Fpelositracker.app",[83],"nofollow","pelositracker.app",". Every STOCK Act disclosure, normalised and rendered as a dashboard instead of a PDF, with real-time alerts, historical analytics, and CSV export built in.",[51,87,88,94],{},[72,89,91],{"href":90},"\u002Fproducts\u002Fleyden",[17,92,93],{},"Leyden",", our second product, currently in private beta. AI-powered idea capture for web and mobile: type a thought as soon as you have it, and the app auto-titles, auto-tags, and connects it to your existing notes. Public launch later this year.",[11,96,97],{},"Both products live on their own domains with their own focus. The studio exists to keep each one small without having to re-invent infrastructure, design, or legal every time.",[22,99,101],{"id":100},"how-we-work","How we work",[11,103,104,105,109],{},"We have written down ",[72,106,108],{"href":107},"\u002Fabout","how we build"," in a bit more detail on the about page, but the short version is:",[111,112,113,119,125],"ol",{},[51,114,115,118],{},[17,116,117],{},"One job per product."," Each tool earns its keep by doing one thing well.",[51,120,121,124],{},[17,122,123],{},"Boring infrastructure."," Static-first hosting, deterministic builds, Infrastructure as Code. Every hour saved on maintenance goes straight into product features you can see.",[51,126,127,130],{},[17,128,129],{},"Clear by default."," Plain English, sensible defaults, and answers on the first screen. The dashboard should make sense before you reach for the docs.",[22,132,134],{"id":133},"what-the-blog-will-cover","What the blog will cover",[11,136,137],{},"Three kinds of post, roughly:",[48,139,140,146,152],{},[51,141,142,145],{},[17,143,144],{},"Product updates."," When something ships, how it works, what's next.",[51,147,148,151],{},[17,149,150],{},"Engineering write-ups."," The less-glamorous-but-useful stuff, such as how we run a static Nuxt site on Firebase, how we manage GCP with Terraform, and how we think about cookie consent on a UK-registered site. We benefit from other people's write-ups; fair's fair.",[51,153,154,157],{},[17,155,156],{},"Takes on the categories we work in."," Occasional opinions on public-data tooling and on AI-assisted knowledge work.",[11,159,160,161,165],{},"The canonical way to follow along is the ",[72,162,164],{"href":163},"\u002Fblog\u002Frss.xml","RSS feed",". Subscribe once and new posts arrive in whatever reader you already use.",[11,167,168,169,173],{},"Thanks for reading the first one. If you would like to talk to us about any of the above, whether press, early access to Leyden, product feedback, or just a question, the ",[72,170,172],{"href":171},"\u002Fcontact","contact form"," reaches a real person.",[11,175,176],{},"Callum, Vantara Labs",{"title":178,"searchDepth":179,"depth":179,"links":180},"",2,[181,182,183,184],{"id":24,"depth":179,"text":25},{"id":62,"depth":179,"text":63},{"id":100,"depth":179,"text":101},{"id":133,"depth":179,"text":134},"Why we started a UK software studio to do a few unfashionable things well.",false,"md",{},true,null,"\u002Fblog\u002F2026-04-hello-vantara-labs","2026-04-16",{"title":5,"description":185},"blog\u002F2026-04-hello-vantara-labs",[196,197],"announcement","company","ww4PVF3d-D3Lns15TCvC2jwre3zcCdC01-YqSq_35ng",1776592127010]