Fete Labs

Three specs. No fluff.

A sound system is judged on three things, and so is a build. We wrote ours down so you can hold us to them.

LOUD

→ Scalable architecture & market presence

Architecture that holds when the crowd arrives, and a search presence that puts you in front of it. We build for the night everybody turns up at once, not the Tuesday afternoon you tested on.

PRECISE

→ Optimised, type-safe, low-latency code

Typed end to end. Money as integer minor units with a currency attached, and queries measured in buffers rather than vibes. We once took a policy check from 160 ms to 1.5 ms by asking the caller once instead of once a row.

RUN ALL NIGHT

→ Infrastructure that stays up when you are asleep

Edge-deployed and monitored, and built so the browser is allowed to leave. Anything that must finish is finished by the server, because the participant guaranteed to disappear mid-transaction is the phone in somebody's pocket.

Modules out the lab

Each one is a module we can lift into your project. That is why the hardware and the app already talk to each other.

FetePASS

Tickets, food, bookings and a local feed across twenty-nine island editions, on one pass.

Private preview

Island content engine

3,000+ items pulled hourly from 180 publisher feeds across 29 islands, deduplicated, dated and moderated before anything reaches a screen.

Running

FetePASS WiFi

Outdoor hotspot hardware and the agent network that runs it. Lab Release 01, the one you can touch.

Shipping

Gate authority

Admission codes that rotate every thirty seconds and are spent the instant they match, so a screenshot of a ticket is worth nothing.

Built

Multi-currency money layer

Every amount an integer in minor units with its currency attached, a fee schedule per territory, and a payment rail that is a row in a table rather than a branch in the code.

Built

This ecosystem map

Twenty-nine territory pages generated from one dataset, each with its own currency, peg, clock and schema. The SEO layer we sell, running on ourselves.

Live

The ventures studio · THREE TIERS

One lab. Three tiers.

Fete Labs builds for clients, ships its own hardware, runs its own seed-stage product, and puts new Caribbean businesses online. One stack under all four, so each one makes the next one cheaper.

Tier 1 · The high end

Fete Labs: custom engineering

High-performance software for businesses and institutions that have outgrown the template. Product engineering, back offices, payments, booking and ordering systems, the data layer underneath, and the infrastructure it all sits on.

Web apps and platforms, server-rendered and fast on island bandwidth
Payments and reconciliation across a dozen regional currencies
Booking, ordering and ticketing engines
Data pipelines, search, and the boring parts that decide whether it works

Send a build brief

Where it has already been proved

Every module in the Lab above came out of paid or in-house work on this stack. The gate authority that protects a ticket, the engine that reads 180 publisher feeds, the fee arithmetic that never stores money as a float. None of it is a demo.

Engagements start with a brief, not a proposal deck. If the shape is wrong we will say so before you spend anything.

Tier 1 · Seed stage

FetePASS: one pass for every fete

The lab's own product, and the proof that we can carry something from an empty repository to a live ecosystem. Tickets, food, bookings, a local feed and a wallet pass, across twenty-nine island editions, on a single pass.

Admission codes that rotate every thirty seconds, so a screenshot admits nobody
A wallet pass that recomputes its own barcode on the device
Per-island currency, per-island clock, per-island feed
Built to take money without ever holding somebody else's

Why it is on this page

Because an agency that has never had to live with its own decisions is guessing. FetePASS is where we find out which patterns survive a real ticket, a real gate and a real Saturday night. Those are the patterns we bring to your build.

Private preview: the software is finished, the company around it is not. We would rather say that than call it a launch.

Tier 2 · Hardware

FetePASS WiFi: Lab Release 01

Physical infrastructure for outdoor hotspots: venues, events, yards, beaches and public spaces. It is the first thing this lab released into the world that you can drop, and it is here because merging hardware with software is the hardest case study an engineering studio can offer.

Outdoor hotspot units built for heat, salt air and a wet season
A captive portal that is a product surface, not an afterthought
An agent network: run hotspots in your area, we handle the rest
The same account system as the app, because it is one stack

Release 01 as a case study

Anybody can ship a website. Shipping a box that has to survive a Caribbean summer, authenticate against the same database as the app, and be operated by an agent who has never seen a terminal. That is the range we are selling in Tier 1.

Agents wanted across all twenty-nine territories. Priority right now: Anguilla, Grenada, St. Kitts & Nevis.

Tier 3 · Starter Lab

Starter Lab: young entrepreneur specials

Entry-level digital acceleration for new Caribbean businesses. Two ways in, and the only difference between them is who holds the keys at the end.

Managed lease: rent a domain

We hold it. You run it.

A domain registered and renewed by us
Site built, hosted, monitored and maintained
Email, forms and analytics set up and kept working
One agreement that renews with you. Nothing to configure, nothing to forget

Start a managed lease

Custom launch: bring your own domain

You hold it. We build it.

You own the domain from day one, on your own account
We design, build, deploy and hand over the keys
Full source, full access, no lock-in and no ransom
Maintenance afterwards is optional, not assumed

Book a custom launch

Why this tier exists. A new business in the Caribbean does not need an enterprise engagement. It needs to exist online this month, on a domain that will still be there next year. Starter Lab is the same engineering standard at the smallest size we can honestly ship it.

The authority map · 29 TERRITORIES

From Anguilla to Trinidad

Twenty-nine Caribbean territories, twelve currencies, four working languages, and one clock that is wrong for half the year if you hardcode it. Every territory has its own page, with the parameters we actually build against.

Open the full ecosystem map Integration guides

Got a scope? Send it.

For clients who already know roughly what they need. Fill this in and the scientist reads it before he replies. The first answer you get is an actual answer, not a discovery call.

Just want a vibe check? Call Scientist at the top of the page splits into WhatsApp and email. Both reach the same person.

Your name Business or project Email WhatsApp (optional) Territory What you need When you need it The scope Detail helps. If it is already written down somewhere, paste it. Every engagement is scoped and priced on its own, so the more we know here the sooner you get a real number back.

Fete Labs may contact me about this brief.

Goes straight to the lab. If sending from here fails, your email app opens with the brief already written.