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LASERRAPTOR

The lab

The mothership.

LaserRaptor is the name the products ship under, and the lab that builds them. Gavel and Broomy are not side quests — they are the line.

One brand, several products. Each one gets its own domain and its own audience, so it can be judged on what it does rather than on a logo. What they share is the standard: official data, one schema, a fast front end, and copy that says something.

The name is a brief. A raptor is a pack hunter — small, fast, and considerably smarter than the fossil record first suggested. Add a laser and you get the house style: precision with a sense of humour.

Everything is built in the Netherlands, in a homelab, by a small team that ships its own work. No agency layer, no account manager, no deck. If a page is slow, it gets fixed; if a number is wrong, it gets traced back to the source.

The aesthetic is not a mood board bolted on afterwards. The 1980s taught a generation that software could be a place: a grid you ride on, a city you fly through, a dashboard with chrome. We build in that direction on purpose.

Base
Den Haag, NL
Products
Gavel · Broomy
Model
Independent
Status
Shipping
Ink drawing of a raptor in a red leather jacket carrying a railgun on a ruined highway, DeLorean parked behind
Field notes — ink, paper, one red jacket

Reference material

Five things that shaped the house style.

  1. 1981 · 88 MPH

    DMC-12

    Stainless steel, gull-wing doors, a flux capacitor in the back. The only car that treated a speed limit as a design goal.

    01
  2. 1982 · THE GRID

    Light Cycle

    A ribbon of light, a grid with no edges and a soundtrack by Wendy Carlos. Still the cleanest interface metaphor ever filmed.

    02
  3. 1988 · NEO-TOKYO

    Kaneda's Bike

    A red slide through a city that never stopped glowing. The reason every dashboard since has wanted neon.

    03
  4. 1974 · 43 QUINTILLION STATES

    3 × 3 × 3

    One solved state out of 43 quintillion. The original state machine, and still the cheapest way to teach commitment.

    04
  5. 75 M BC · NAMESAKE

    Velociraptor

    Pack hunter, apex predator, featherweight. Small, fast, and smarter than the fossil record first suggested.

    05

“Small, fast, smart — and armed with a laser. The name does most of the explaining.”

House doctrine, line 01

See what the lab ships.

Two products live under the brand, one more in the bay.

The line