Creative technology studio Est. 2026

Why not build it?

Lamalo is a small studio of engineers and designers led by Jonathan Lam. We build AI-powered web and mobile products, help businesses put AI and IT to work, and teach people to make things — backed by nearly two decades of engineering in defence, telecom and nuclear science.

Tell us what you want to build Get AI or IT help
Products shipped
8+
Web, mobile & AI — idea to production
Idea → live
1 wk
Our fastest launch: Quest 4 Religious Truth
Engineering since
2007
RF, nuclear instrumentation, defence AI

Tools we use most

  • Next.js
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • Vercel
  • OpenRouter
  • Python
  • Docker
  • Linux
01 — What we do

Four things, done with care. No fluff, no buzzwords.

01

AI for your business

Assistants, automations and AI features grounded in your own data — not generic guesses. We start small, prove the value, then grow it.

  • Assistants
  • Automation
  • RAG
02

Web & mobile products

Full-stack web apps, websites and iOS/Android apps — and the hardware they talk to. MVPs usually go live in 3–4 weeks.

  • Web
  • Mobile
  • Embedded
03

IT support

Practical, no-jargon help when your setup is fighting you. Audits, support, managed IT, backups and security — sorted, properly.

  • Audit
  • Fix
  • Maintain
04

Workshops & 1:1

Hands-on sessions for schools, youth groups, teams and curious adults. Build something real in a few hours — no slides, just making.

  • Schools
  • Teams
  • 1:1
02 — AI & IT help

Stuck with AI or IT?
Start here.

Plain-language help from engineers who have kept defence, telecom and production systems running. We tell you what is worth doing, do it properly, and leave you with something you understand.

AI

Put AI to work — safely.

  • Discovery session Find the one to three automations that will actually pay off — before anyone writes code.
  • Assistants & chatbots Grounded in your own documents and data, with clear hand-offs to a human.
  • Workflow automation Connect your tools, APIs and data so repetitive work runs itself.
  • AI inside your product Search, summaries, extraction and agents — with structured outputs, tool calling and RAG.
  • Tuning & care Monitoring, prompt and cost optimisation as usage grows.

~40% lower inference cost from multi-model routing with provider fallbacks, in production.

Book an AI discovery session
IT

Keep your IT boring — in a good way.

  • IT audit Devices, network, backups and security risks, reviewed and explained in plain English.
  • Remote & on-site support Computers, Wi-Fi, email and apps — plus same-day help when something critical breaks.
  • Managed IT Ongoing support and maintenance for solo professionals, small teams and growing businesses.
  • Backup & security Backup and recovery plans, MFA, device hardening and staff training.
  • Cloud & websites Migration to Google or Microsoft, and care plans that keep your site updated and online.

1,500+ telecom systems analysed, fixed and upgraded — and business infrastructure run with reliability first.

Get IT help
03 — Selected work

Built things,
not slide decks.

Real products, live right now — open them and try them. Case studies tell the story; the live apps page lets you click straight in.

EducationWebAccessibility

Quest 4 Religious Truth — from idea to a live learning site in one week.

Five-minute lessons, quizzes, a listen mode and free printables that compare Judaism and Christianity side by side — accessible by design.

  • Idea → live in 1 week
  • 8-stop lesson trail
  • Listen mode
Case study
CommunityFull-stackPWA

Kosher CoShare — a calm social network for kosher recipes.

Post, upvote, save and search recipes with dietary labels. Accounts, image uploads and a social feed — fast enough to feel like an app.

  • Social feed + upvotes
  • Database-backed
  • Installable app
Case study
AI searchData pipelineAgents

Flowcait — scrape, store and search classes in plain English.

A data pipeline gathers class listings into one database; people search with filters or free text answered by a low-cost AI agent.

  • Scrape → store → search
  • Free-text AI search
  • Low-cost agent
Case study
AIAssistantsLead capture

Website AI Chatbot — the assistant on this page. Go on, ask it something.

Layered intent routing, memory, lead capture and form hand-off, grounded in a curated knowledge base instead of model guesswork.

  • Multi-model routing
  • Grounded answers
  • Live on this site
Case study

All case studies → Open the live apps →

04 — Who we are

A small team.
A long engineering record.

Lamalo is a small team of engineers and designers led by Jonathan Lam — nearly two decades of engineering, from defence radio and nuclear instrumentation to AI products in production.

  1. 2007 – 2009 · Ottawa

    Trained where “probably” isn’t good enough

    Military-grade digital RF filters in C++ at Canada’s Communications Research Centre, then hardware, software and real-time data for 50+ radiation detectors at Health Canada during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics — and co-authored, peer-reviewed research. The rule we still work by: trust only what can be verified. Case study →

  2. 2009 – 2023 · Consulting

    Fourteen years of systems that had to work

    Compton-imager simulation for Defence R&D Canada, sub-150 ms ESP32 camera firmware for law-enforcement teams, and support and upgrades across 1,500+ commercial telecom systems — plus web, email and data infrastructure for business clients. Firmware → IT & telecom →

  3. 2023 – 2024 · Ottawa / Montreal

    Machine learning in production

    Real-time noise cancellation on FPGA for a defence client, predictive maintenance for a manufacturer, and an AI-readiness review for an air-defence organisation. FPGA → Predictive maintenance →

  4. Today · Canada & Israel

    Lamalo

    Jonathan leads a small team of engineers and designers. We have shipped 8+ web, mobile and AI products — including an Android point-of-sale app used by 1,000+ people and a language-learning app serving 500+ learners. MVPs usually go live in 3–4 weeks, and multi-model routing has cut AI inference costs by about 40%. See what’s live →

  • 2007Engineering since
  • 50+Radiation detectors, Vancouver 2010
  • 1,500+Telecom systems maintained
  • 8+Products shipped at Lamalo
  • 1,000+People using one of our apps
  • ~40%Lower AI inference cost
05 — Workshops

Learn by building
— not by being lectured at.

Workshops are loud, occasionally messy, and the best way we know to teach. Each session starts with a working example and ends with something you actually made.

  • Schools & classrooms — curriculum-friendly half-day or multi-week formats
  • Teams — practical AI and tech training days with real exercises
  • Beginners — adults who always wanted to try, never had time
  • 1:1 sessions — focused, paced to you, no group to wait for
Book a workshop Request a custom format
06 — Bring your idea

Bring the idea.
Let's shape it.

You don't need a finished product spec, a deck, or a team. You need a first honest conversation and a clear next step. That's where this starts.

  1. 01

    Talk it through

    A real conversation — not a sales call. We figure out what you're actually trying to make and why it matters to you.

  2. 02

    Map the path

    A short, plain-English plan: what's possible, what's tricky, what to build first, and what to defer.

  3. 03

    Build the prototype

    Hands on the hardware and the code. Small, working pieces, faster than you'd expect — sometimes in a single week.

  4. 04

    Iterate & ship

    Test it with real people. Refine. Decide if it's a product, a project, or a great story to tell. All are valid.

The hardest part isn't the technology. It's the courage to start before everything is figured out. We start there, with you.

07 — Community Coming soon

A workshop with the door open.

Coming soon. We are building Lamalo into a place for builders, learners, teachers, and people who like the smell of solder. There are no dates yet — leave your email and we will tell you when the first evening is on.

What we are planning:

  • Open builds & show-and-tell evenings
  • Project swaps between students and makers
  • Quiet help when a project gets stuck
  • Collaborations with people doing meaningful work
Tell me when it launches →
08 — Philosophy

למה לא — why not?

Lamalo comes from the Hebrew phrase for "why not." It's a two-word permission slip: to start, to try, to ask the obvious question, to make the thing before you're certain it'll work.

The studio is built around four values that aren't decoration — they're the operating system.

/01

Curiosity

Take the question seriously. Ask the next one.

/02

Courage

Start before it's perfect. Especially then.

/03

Craft

Make it well. Verify it. The details are the work.

/04

Collaboration

Build with people. For people. Toward better.

09 — Start something

Tell us what you
want to build.

An idea, an AI question, a workshop, a stuck project, or a server that won't behave. Send a few lines — a real person on our team reads every message.

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