Portfolio

Every venture started here

Arc Labs is not an investor. Each of these was picked, built and operated by us, from Oslo, for Norway and the United States.

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Dishy

dishy.no

Sector
Consumer services
Market
Norway

Everyday household help, on demand.

Dishy started from a small, stubborn observation: the jobs that pile up at home are rarely big enough to plan around, but they are more than enough to ruin an evening. Dishes, laundry, the flat before guests arrive. Traditional cleaning services are built for recurring contracts and long lead times, which is the opposite of how the need actually arrives.

Dishy books household help the way you would book anything else you need today. Clear pricing before you commit, vetted people, and no subscription to escape from later. It runs in Norwegian, for Norwegian homes, with the payment and scheduling conventions people here already expect.

Snakke

snakke.app

Sector
Education
Market
Norway

Learn Norwegian, properly.

Most language apps are very good at making you feel like you are learning Norwegian and not especially good at making you able to speak it. They optimise for streaks and vocabulary counts, because those are easy to measure. Meanwhile the learner still freezes at the checkout counter.

Snakke is built around the parts that actually block people: pronunciation people can hear, sentence patterns you will genuinely reuse, and the gap between written bokmål and how people speak. It is designed for the person who has been in Norway for two years, understands more than they can say, and wants that to stop being true.

LeadRadar

leadradar.no

Sector
Sales software
Market
International

AI powered lead discovery on Reddit.

Somewhere on Reddit, right now, someone is describing your product category as a problem they have. They are not searching for a vendor. They are complaining, or asking for advice, or comparing two things they half understand. That is the earliest and most honest buying signal there is, and it is almost impossible to monitor by hand.

LeadRadar watches for those conversations and surfaces the ones that genuinely match what you sell, with enough context to reply like a person rather than a bot. It is aimed at founders and small sales teams who cannot afford to buy attention and have to earn it instead.

Xtell

xtell.io

Sector
AI infrastructure
Market
International

Deploy a trained chatbot in 60 seconds.

Every business that has ever looked at adding an AI assistant has hit the same wall: the demo takes a minute and the deployment takes a quarter. Somewhere between the two sits data plumbing, prompt tuning, and a integration nobody scoped.

Xtell collapses that. You point it at what you already have, your site, your docs, your existing help content, and it produces an assistant that answers from your material rather than inventing an answer. The target is the small business that needs this to work on a Tuesday afternoon without hiring anyone.

Avelo

avelo.no

Sector
Civic technology
Market
Norway

A navigator for Norwegian public services.

Norwegian public services are genuinely well built. They are also close to impenetrable if you did not grow up here, do not have the vocabulary, and do not already know which agency owns your problem. The information exists. Finding the path through it is the hard part.

Avelo turns that into something you can follow. What applies to you, which body handles it, what you need to have ready, and what happens next. It is aimed squarely at newcomers to Norway and at anyone who has ever lost an afternoon to figuring out which form was the right form.

IndexAppeal

indexappeal.com

Sector
Property technology
Market
Texas, United States

Property tax appeals, Texas.

Texas homeowners receive a notice of appraised value every year, and most of them file it away. A large number of those assessments are wrong, or at least higher than comparable properties nearby, and Texas law gives you a genuine route to contest that, including on the grounds that your property is appraised unequally relative to similar homes.

IndexAppeal builds the case. It assembles the comparable properties, works out what the evidence actually supports, and produces the packet a homeowner needs to protest properly rather than showing up and arguing from feel.

JerseyAppeal

jerseyappeal.tax

Sector
Property technology
Market
New Jersey, United States

Property tax appeals, New Jersey.

New Jersey has the highest effective property tax rates in the United States, which means an over assessment costs more there than almost anywhere else, every single year it goes unchallenged. The appeal process is real and open to homeowners, but it runs on its own calendar, its own county boards, and its own evidentiary conventions.

JerseyAppeal is IndexAppeal rebuilt for those rules. Same idea, different statute book: work out whether the assessment is defensible, and if it is not, produce the evidence that says so.

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GetYaBag

getyabag.com

Sector
Commerce
Market
International

A handbag label with a sense of humour.

Not everything we build is software. GetYaBag is a direct to consumer handbag label with an opening collection of six, and a tone that does not take itself entirely seriously while taking the product completely seriously.

The joke is on the label. The specification underneath it is not: materials, dimensions, strap length, interior pockets, closure, and what happens if you want to send it back. Every listing has to pass the same quality check before it goes up.

AlphaEngine

catherina.ai

Sector
Financial technology
Market
United States equities

Automated trading, tested before it is trusted.

AlphaEngine is a short horizon trading system for US equities. A model reads and grades the news catalyst; deterministic code decides position size and places the order. The risk gate cannot be overridden by the model, only tightened. That split is the whole design: the language model is allowed to have an opinion, and is not allowed to touch the money.

It is not live, and we will not pretend otherwise. It is in backtesting and paper trading against a decade of market data, and it has to clear a fixed ladder of statistical checks before it trades real capital at any size. Most trading systems that look profitable on paper are not. Finding that out cheaply is the point of this phase.

Morganwell

morganwell.com

Sector
Property technology
Market
United States

Property tax appeals, unified across the United States.

IndexAppeal and JerseyAppeal taught us the same lesson twice: the legal grounds for a property tax appeal rhyme from state to state, but the deadlines, the evidence standards, and the bodies that hear you do not. Building a separate product per state does not scale, and neither does pretending one national product can ignore the differences.

Morganwell is the version that takes both facts seriously. A single platform, with the state specific rules encoded properly underneath, opening one state at a time rather than claiming fifty on day one.