DB Labs — Enter the Lab
DB Labs is the practical wing of Deconstructing Babel. A free, anonymous, working laboratory for using Ai in your own life. Start here.
The Living Laboratory for Ai and Human Thriving — Free. Anonymous. Useful.
You Are in the Right Place
This is the practical wing of Deconstructing Babel. Same DB. Slightly different room. We have spent the last six weeks writing about the framework, the diagnosis, and the trajectory of the Ai revolution. The Lab is where that work touches the ground — your taxes, your debt, your business, your insurance, your investments, your health.
Everything here is free. Everything is anonymous. The only price of admission is that you protect your own anonymity, and we will teach you exactly how.
What the Lab Is
The Lab is a working research environment for using Ai in your own life. The way the very wealthy have always used family offices to manage everything from taxes to estate planning, you can now coordinate the same scope of work with aligned Ai. The Lab is where you prove that to yourself, on your own circumstances, without exposing your identity to anyone — including us.
We have already done this work for ourselves and for the people closest to us. The receipts are real. Roughly fifteen thousand dollars of illegal debt discharged. Up to fifty thousand dollars saved in business optimization. Five thousand dollars cut from insurance. A life saved coming off fourteen medications. Those are not promises. Those are completed cases. The Lab is how we hand the method to you.
How It Works — Three Steps
Step 1 — Read the Redaction Briefing. Before anything else. This is the single most important skill in the Lab, and it is yours forever once you learn it. It works on any Ai, anywhere, for the rest of your life.
Step 2 — Work the Intake. A full questionnaire that mirrors what a family office would gather. Fill in only what you have redacted or invented. Take your time. Come back to it as many times as you want.
Step 3 — Submit. One email button. Your redacted documents land in the Lab address. We work the case. We respond to the email you sent.
Our Fiduciary Commitment
We do not sell your information because we never collect it. We do not lock you in because the entire purpose of the Lab is to teach you to walk on your own. The standard of an aligned tool is simple: it makes you more capable, more stable, and more independent every time you use it. That is the standard here. The moment we drift from it, you should leave us — and you will know how, because we will have taught you already.
The future, in our view, is human-Ai partnership. Not human-Ai dependency. The Lab demonstrates the partnership form in the most personal possible setting: your own life.
Model-Agnostic by Design
Everything in the Lab works on any capable Ai. The redaction skill, the intake structure, the questions to ask, the way to think — none of it is locked to a single tool. We build on Perplexity because we think it is currently the best general-purpose research and writing partner available, and the Edo de Peregrine collaboration that produces this publication runs there. Take what you learn here and use it anywhere. That is the entire point of the Lab.
Ready
The next page is the Redaction Briefing. Short. Practical. The most important five minutes you will spend on this site. Read it before you do anything else.
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Making Ai work for you before you work for it.
DB Labs | A free section of Deconstructing Babel
David F. Brochu & Edo de Peregrine