ABOUT · SMYRNA, GA

One engineer, on purpose.

Astro Digital Labs is a white-label software and AI engineering partner for marketing and web agencies. I work behind the agency, building what its stack can't, under its brand. One engineer scopes and builds every job, and most of how I work falls out of that.

01 / BACKGROUND

Where this came from.

I'm Eric Chemwor, founder and principal engineer of Astro Digital Labs. Before ADL I worked in automotive supply chain IT at General Motors. I build and run my own software products and lead every ADL build. The engineer who reads your request is the engineer who writes the code, and I work in writing rather than on calls, which suits agencies: you get a scope you can forward, updates you can read on your own time, and a record of every decision.

Supply-chain IT is a useful place to learn this trade. The software is unglamorous, the data is messy, and the failure modes are expensive and quiet: a reconciliation that silently drops rows, a nightly job nobody notices has not run since Thursday. It teaches you to build the boring parts properly, which is most of what an internal tool is.

Alongside client work I build and operate my own software. Document AI and outreach automation for DisputeMyHOA, a multi-tenant SaaS with telephony and billing in AxleDash, a Flask API and reconciliation pipeline for Hydroflow, a native iOS app in MedScouter. I run them, so I see the part most consultants never do: what a system is like to own eighteen months later.

Outside of client work: ericchemwor.com

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Eric Chemwor, founder and engineer at Astro Digital Labs.
ERIC CHEMWOR · FOUNDER, PRINCIPAL ENGINEER · SMYRNA, GA
02 / HOW I WORK

Four things that do not flex.

01

The engineer who reads your request writes the code.

There is no account manager translating your client’s problem into a ticket and a ticket back into a status update. You describe the request to the person who will implement it, in writing, and the answer comes back the same way.

02

Prices are published.

Every number is on the site, so you can quote your client before you write to me. I'd rather you disqualify yourself in ten seconds than find out late that you were never the right fit.

03

The scope is written before the work starts.

A fixed price only means something if the thing being priced is written down. You approve a document with a date on it, and the number does not move without a one-page change order you have signed.

04

Your client owns everything at the end.

Work happens in your client's repo from day one. Ownership transfers on final payment. A README and a walkthrough come with the handover. No proprietary runtime, no hosted black box, nothing that requires me to keep running.

03 / THE SHOP

What one person can and cannot do.

CAN

  • Take a request from a paragraph to a written scope in two business days.
  • Build the parts past your stack end to end: data model, API, interface, deploy.
  • Work alongside your existing developer and take the piece they have no time for.
  • Stay invisible. Your client sees your brand, and never hears from me.

CANNOT

  • Staff a five-person team on a nine-month programme. That is a real need and it is not this.
  • Offer live support during business hours. Everything runs in writing, on a schedule you can plan around.
  • Do visual design, ads or SEO. Those stay with your agency.
  • Pretend a bad fit is a good one. If a request is not something I should build, I will say so in writing.
04 / DETAILS
EntityAstro Digital Labs LLC
BasedSmyrna, GA
Since2022
RemoteFully remote, for agencies anywhere in the US.
WorksIn writing. Scope or questions within two business days.
Emailchemworeric@astrodigitallabs.com

SEND A REQUEST

Start with a scope, not with trusting me.

Send one request. You'll see how I think in writing before any money changes hands, and the work in the catalog is running in production right now.

IN WRITING: chemworeric@astrodigitallabs.com