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Welcome to Lethal Labs

Lethal Labs is an engineering cooperative focused on developing ultra-high-performance SaaS applications and public good open-source infrastructure. We believe in design-driven development, open architecture, and meritocratic collaboration.

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• Our Operating Model: How the firm functions on a day-to-day basis.
• The Insider Program: Learn how to join the core team.
• Contributing: Guidelines for external contributors.
• Project Guidelines: Our standard operating procedures for code and architecture.

🏢 Our Operating Model

We operate an asynchronous structure heavily reliant on GitHub, CI/CD, and transparent documentation. There are no mandatory sync meetings. We communicate entirely through pull requests, RFCs (Request for Comments), and issue tracking.

Core Tenets

1. Zero Technical Debt: We allocate 30% of sprint time strictly to refactoring, testing, and dependency upgrades.
2. Apple-like Aesthetics: Command-line tools should have beautiful outputs. Web UIs must feel responsive and fluid. We don't ship ugly software.
3. Open Core: Most of our foundational libraries are open source. We monetize via enterprise SaaS that leverages these libraries at massive scale.
4. Self-Sufficiency: Every engineer is expected to be able to deploy their code. We don't have separate "DevOps" teams—infrastructure is code, written by developers.

🚀 Repositories Overview

• Private Repositories: Require the "Insider" role to access. See the Insider Program documentation.