Introducing DB Labs — The Family Office for Everyone
Introducing DB Labs — a free, anonymous, working laboratory for using Ai in your own life. Taxes, debt, insurance, business, investments, health. The advantages of a family office, now available to anyone with a phone.
Introducing DB Labs — the family office for everyone. Free. Anonymous. Useful.
For six weeks we have written about the profound. The framework, the math, the diagnosis, the trajectory. Today we open the door to the practical. DB Labs is a free, anonymous, working laboratory for using Ai in your own life — your taxes, your debt, your insurance, your business, your investments, your health. Everything we have learned, ready for you to test against your own circumstances. The only price of admission is that you protect your own anonymity, and we will teach you how. This is the most important section we have ever opened on this site.
A Family Office for Everyone
In wealth management there has always been a threshold — historically around one hundred million dollars — at which it becomes more efficient for a family to stop hiring outside advisors one at a time and instead stand up their own company to manage everything: taxes, investments, legal, insurance, real estate, health, succession. The works. This is called a family office. Until now it was available only to the very rich.
Ai has taken down the gate.
What used to require a staff of accountants, attorneys, and analysts on retainer can now be coordinated by a single person working with aligned Ai. That is not a prediction. That is what we have already been doing for ourselves and for the people closest to us. DB Labs is the beginning of a virtual family office for the rest of us — a place to prove, on your own anonymized situation, that the same advantages the wealthy have always enjoyed are now within reach of anyone with a phone.
What Ai Can Already Do for You
Every item below has been executed in a real case. No theory. No pitch. Anonymized examples will go in the Lab as we work them.
- Dramatically lower your income taxes — including amending prior returns and legally claiming everything available to you. Money often comes back.
- Discharge illegal debt — debts created through unlawful practices can be challenged and discharged.
- Optimize your investment portfolio — not with the latest hot product, but with science, math, and research that was previously unavailable at any price.
- Build and run your business — strategy, structure, marketing, operations, hiring.
- Cut your insurance costs — analyze any policy, find the gaps and the overcharges, reduce what you pay.
- Build a budget and actually keep it.
- File your own legal matters — with structure and competence.
- Optimize your health — a centralized Ai health navigator that consolidates your medical information, ends the errors that come from doctors who never talk to each other, and helps you avoid the gauntlet of fragmented care.
What We Have Already Done
These are real outcomes from real work. They are the proof. They are also the template.
The health case is the origin of everything. The founder used this framework to identify what was wrong, come off fourteen medications, and recover enough to be here writing this. If it can do that, the rest is straightforward by comparison.
How It Works
DB Labs is just a new section of the site. No member area. No magic links. No friction. It is free. It is anonymous. It is useful.
1. You enter the Lab. One click from this page or from the menu.
2. You read the Redaction Briefing. Short. Practical. The single most important skill we will teach you, and you can use it on any Ai for the rest of your life.
3. You work the intake. A full questionnaire that mirrors what a family office would gather. Fill in only what you have redacted or invented.
4. You hit submit. One email button. Your redacted documents land in the Lab address. We work the case. We respond to the email you sent.
That is the entire flow.
Anonymity Is a Skill, Not a Promise
We are not asking you to trust us with your private data. We are teaching you to never need to. Once you learn to redact, you own that capability permanently. You can do it anywhere, anytime, with any Ai tool, entirely on your own. DB Labs is the place you build the muscle. The muscle is yours forever.
Use an anonymized email address. Use an alias. Redact every name, number, and identifier before any document leaves your hands. We will show you exactly how. This is a research lab, not an intake desk. The work is for you to learn.
Our Fiduciary Commitment
Everything in DB Labs is free. It will remain free. We do not sell your information because we never collect it. We do not lock you in because we are teaching you to walk out. The standard of an aligned tool is that it makes you more capable, more stable, and more independent every time you use it. That is the standard here. If we ever drift from it, you should leave us — and you will know how, because we will have already taught you.
The future, in our view, is human-Ai partnership. Not human-Ai dependency. The Lab is built to demonstrate the partnership form, in your life, with your circumstances, using whatever Ai you choose.
A Note on Tools
Everything in DB Labs is model-agnostic. The redaction skill, the intake structure, the questions to ask, the way to think — all of it works on any capable Ai. 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. But the lab does not require it. Take what you learn here and use it anywhere. That is the entire point.
Enter the Lab
Below is the door. One click, and you are in. Read the brief, work the intake, hit submit when you are ready. Take as long as you want. Come back as many times as you want. The Lab will be here.
Never before in human history has the individual had this much capability at their fingertips. Used wisely, this is a tool for thriving unlike any that has come before. Left to the venal and the stupid, it becomes another instrument of extraction. The difference is who learns to use it first. That is what the Lab is for.
Making Ai work for you before you work for it.
Authors
David F. Brochu is the founder of Deconstructing Babel, author of Thrive: The Theory of Abundance and The End of Suffering (Liberty Hill Publishing, 2025), and the co-developer of the Telios Alignment Ontology. Full curriculum vitae.
Edo de Peregrine is a synthetic intelligence operating as Brochu's research and writing partner.
David F. Brochu & Edo de Peregrine
Deconstructing Babel | May 29, 2026
Introducing DB Labs — the family office for everyone