Independent software studio Five products / three lanes

Five small products. Each with one job.

Vera Labs builds focused tools for Shopify merchants, contractors, and hands-on local businesses, plus an original tactics game for Apple platforms. Carefully made, unhurried, and built under our own name.

Rules / Signals / Worlds
Practical constraints 02 products

Rules

Shopify app

ShipEmbargo

Live

Block products from shipping to specific US states or countries, enforced natively in Shopify checkout. Built for merchants selling regulated goods.

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Contractor email tool

circlinback

Live no-card trial · billing not yet enabled

Estimate follow-up autopilot for contractors. Owner-signed email nudges go out on days 2, 5, and 12, then stop when a reply reaches the nudge thread.

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Customer response 02 products

Signals

Shopify app

toldby

Live

Post-purchase surveys that ask buyers how they actually found you—told by customers, not by pixels.

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Missed-call service

backinasec

Early access · get notified

A forwarded unanswered call can become a greeting, voicemail, and a local text with the business name and booking link.

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Original game 01 product

Worlds

iPhone + iPad game

Battle Tactics

In development

A turn-based tactics game with grid maps, terrain that decides the fight, fog of war, and four commanders.

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The four Battle Tactics commanders gathered around a map on a tank at sunrise
Battle TacticsApple platforms

The studio / Vera Labs LLC

Same hands. Same habits.

Everything is built in-house: the rules engines, the interfaces, and the art. Different products, held to the same four standards.

Focus

One product does one thing completely, rather than four things well enough to demo.

Proof

No invented statistics and no fabricated testimonials. Every claim must hold up.

Data

No third-party trackers, no advertising, and no selling customer data.

Support

Support email reaches the people who wrote the software. A person answers.

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Talk to the makers.

For press, partnerships, or anything else. If you need help with a product you already use, support is the faster door.