E13 - Error Thirteen
A consulting layer between your world and the basement Lab below. We speak human on the thirteenth floor, translate problems into missions, and route them to DRK NYT Lab and our agent floor (LLM - Lower Level Mezzanine) when they require actual intelligence and unconventional tools.
You never hire the Lab. You work with E13. We handle the descent.
We are the interface. The Lab builds in the dark; E13 keeps it human and accountable upstairs.
What is E13?
E13 is the thirteenth floor of 211 W Fort in Detroit - a consulting layer between your teams and the basement Lab below. We do not sell slides or vague initiatives. We help you fix specific flows:
- Systems that do not talk to each other.
- Teams held back by tools they did not choose.
- Work that could be done by machines, but is not yet.
- Products that deserve a better nervous system.
Up here, we listen, model, and define the mission. Downstairs, DRK NYT Lab and our agent floor (LLM) execute - wiring actual intelligence into the parts of your world that need it most.
Clients / Strategy / Missions
Agents / Orchestration
Build / Ship / Operate
Missions we take on
Mission 01 - Unstuck
When the workflow is eating the work. Your team spends more time feeding tools than getting results. E13 maps the flow, talks to the people doing the work, and turns it into a small, sharp mission: what stays, what goes, what gets automated, and what DRK NYT + LLM will build so humans can breathe again.
Mission 02 - Ghost Infrastructure
When everything technically works, but nobody trusts it. Logs, retries, exports, partial dashboards. E13 traces the ghost, models the real state of your system, and defines a path to something resilient: instrument the right edges, define failure states, give humans clear views, let the Lab rebuild the backbone.
Mission 03 - Product Nerve System
You have users and revenue but no clean way to see who is stuck, what matters, and what should happen next. E13 works with you to define a telemetry plus agent layer (alerts, summaries, nudges) so DRK NYT can wire it into the tools you already run.
Mission 04 - Quiet Experiments
When you want to ship something your org is not ready to talk about. A prototype, a new line, a weird idea. E13 keeps it small, scoped, and deniable. The Lab builds it quietly and runs it until it proves itself. When it is ready, you decide whether to bring it upstairs.
Listen -> Model -> Route
We spend 60 to 90 minutes with the people actually doing the work. Not just leadership, not just IT. We gather stories, screenshots, tickets, and "I wish we could just..." moments.
We condense what we heard into a mission brief: the system as it is, the system as it should be, constraints, risks, and desired outcomes. Our agents on LLM help analyze patterns; our humans sense the human parts.
E13 shepherds the mission down to DRK NYT Lab. The Lab proposes a narrow v0.1: what they will build, how it will run, how we will measure success. If you approve, the basement lights up.
You never manage the Lab. You just see its results.
Signals we respond to
E13 does not respond to RFPs or "we are talking to five vendors" cycles. We respond to signals: clear, specific pain with a path to value.
- Our renewals or outreach team is drowning in manual follow-up.
- Our MLS / CRM / accounting stack is stitched together with copy-paste.
- We know we should be using agents to summarize and route, but we do not trust anyone to design it right.
If the signal is real and the mission is tight, we will tell you what it would look like to work together. If it is not a fit, we will say that too.
Settle with E13
Start a monthly retainer or submit a custom invoice payment. We use Stripe Checkout; E13 remains your only interface.
E13 Consulting - Monthly
$500 / month to keep Floor 13 engaged.
E13 Invoice Payment
Enter a custom amount for scoped missions.
Stripe-secured checkout. Cancel anytime on retainer.
211 W Fort // Floors that matter
We use the building as a map because it is easier than explaining diagrams.
Where we talk to humans, hold meetings, sketch missions, and point at whiteboards. The only floor you actually visit.
Where agents live: orchestration, queues, models, indices, logs. The invisible mesh between your world and the Lab.
Where code, cables, screens, and actual intelligence combine to push real things into production. You never manage it. You just see its results.
Start a conversation with E13
If you are sitting on something specific - a broken flow, a too-manual pipeline, a product that needs a nervous system - send us a signal. We will read it, ask a few clarifying questions, and tell you what v0.1 would look like if we took the mission.