About

We help small businesses
run on AI.

Manhattan Labs builds practical AI automation for the businesses that need it most — the ones without a tech team, a big budget, or time to waste. We make the tools, set them up, and leave you running smoother.

The problem

AI is everywhere, but most small businesses aren't using it. Not because they don't want to — because it's complicated, disconnected, and nobody's explaining it in plain English.

Our answer

Five targeted modules that cover the highest-leverage parts of running a business — qualifying leads, onboarding clients, reading documents, answering staff questions, and reporting on what matters.

How we work

We deploy against live demo tenants — fictional firms where every solution is running end-to-end. You see exactly what you're getting before you commit a dollar.

Origin

Why we built this.

Every small firm I talked to said the same thing: "We know AI is a big deal, but we don't have time to figure out which tools to buy, how to wire them together, or what's safe with our client data."

So they kept doing the work by hand — qualifying leads in a spreadsheet, onboarding clients in five steps spread across DocuSign / Gmail / Drive / a CRM no one logs into, reading every contract from scratch.

Manhattan Labs is the answer to that. One platform. Real integrations to the tools you already pay for. An assistant that actually checks your inbox before it answers. Built specifically for the firms the AI industry has been talking past.

See it live

Two live tenants. Open right now.

Every module deployed end-to-end against real-looking data. Click in, poke at anything.

People

The team

RM
Raenen Mathen
Founder · Manhattan Labs

Engineer turned founder. Spent years watching small firms try to bolt on AI by hand and lose. Built Manhattan Labs to ship the orchestrated version of that — modules, integrations, and an assistant that actually does the work, not just suggests it.

Ready to see it working?

Book a 30-min walkthrough — we'll open a live tenant and show you what fits your firm.