Ember Agentic Labs
Human creativity, amplified.
A studio for agentic AI systems applied to real-world domains. Tools where AI agents do real work on real problems — with structure, memory, and quality gates that compound across sessions instead of evaporating with the chat window.
What we're building
A substrate that compounds.
The bottleneck for AI in real work isn't the model — it's context. What's been decided, why, against which constraint, with which trade-off accepted. Most tools throw all of that away at the end of every chat.
Ember's bet: a structured substrate that grows with the work — artifacts, decisions, and history as linked first-class entities — is what lets AI work productively at the scale humans actually build at.
Crucible proved it under load — built using itself. Read the story →
Products
What we're shipping.
Crucible is the first project. Two more are in active development.
Crucible Alpha
Free DownloadStructured AI development for large codebases. Task management, knowledge graph, persona workflows, and quality gates — on top of Claude Code.
Visit crucible.emberagenticlabs.com →- VS Code extension
- MCP-native task management
- Knowledge graph & persona workflows
- Quality gates between phases
- Built on Claude Code
Crucible Pro
In developmentMulti-LLM orchestration. Adaptive selection across providers for speed, cost, and quality — with persistent sessions per persona and enforced process structure.
- Multi-provider model orchestration
- Cost / quality routing per task
- Persistent sessions per persona
- Agent swarming & auto-scaling pools
- Enterprise deployment options
Visualist
In developmentA visual storytelling assistant and content management system. The same substrate — linked artifacts, persistent memory, structured workflows — applied to narrative, design, and visual communication.
- Story-graph editor
- Asset and brand management
- Scene and sequence orchestration
- Cross-medium publishing
- Narrative continuity across projects
Enterprise AI
ExploringApplied agentic systems for finance, legal, ERP, and R&D. The same patterns — structured agents, linked artifacts, knowledge that compounds — extended into the domains where they create the most leverage.
- Semantic financial pipelines
- Code-to-compliance mapping
- Business rule extraction from legacy systems
- Cross-disciplinary research agents
- Partnership-driven engagements
Focus areas
Where these patterns apply.
Each domain has the same shape: knowledge-heavy work, multi-step decisions, outputs that have to stay coherent over time. That's what agentic substrates are for.
Software Development
Multi-agent development workflows, executable specifications, and self-improving pipelines. Live today via Crucible.
Visual Storytelling
Narrative, design, and content systems where decisions, assets, and continuity have to hold together across long projects. Visualist will live here.
Enterprise Finance
Semantic financial pipelines, proactive anomaly detection, capital structure risk analysis, and automated COA consolidation across complex portfolios.
Knowledge Management
Idea routing, cross-disciplinary insight discovery, and communications alignment for distributed teams.
Enterprise Architecture
Business rule extraction from legacy systems, hybrid control gateways for legacy-to-cloud transitions, and agentic ERP integration.
Compliance & Legal
Code-to-compliance mapping, automated tech transfer licensing, and real-time audit documentation generation.
Scientific R&D
Cross-disciplinary meta-learning agents, sensor data pipelines, and knowledge compounding for deep tech research.
Founder
Tony Gibbons.
Full-Spectrum Systems Builder & Architect bridging the gap between foundational engineering and enterprise-level strategy. Anchored by a BS in Computer Engineering, an MBA, and a Master's in Data Science, with experience spanning the entire technological stack. This includes ASIC hardware design, hyperscale data center R&D and operational optimization, petabyte-scale data engineering, neuroscience research, AI application design, venture capital, and investment portfolio management. Motivated by opportunities to architect technical solutions that drive financial and operational ecosystems.
Get in touch
Want to try Crucible, or talk about what's next?
Crucible Alpha is free to download. For partnerships, Visualist updates, or anything else — email goes straight to me.