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title: About | Maro Labs, a Korea-based software studio
url: https://marolabs.kr/about/
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alternates: ko https://marolabs.kr/ko/about/ ; ja https://marolabs.kr/ja/about/
updated: 2026-10-09
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> Maro Labs is a Korea-based software studio founded in April 2026 by Maro. It makes Maro Portal and Maro Writer for macOS, and works through a record, review, decide loop. Built with Claude.

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# About Maro Labs

A Korea-based software studio, founded in April 2026, making AI-native workspace tools for macOS.

Maro Labs was founded in South Korea in April 2026 by Maro. Building software with AI every day, we kept running into the same problem: the tools lost context along the way, and the decisions behind the work disappeared into old chats.

Maro Portal began as the workspace we needed for our own work: one place where tasks, conversations, and decisions stay on the record and nothing closes without review. A question in May about how to start a martial-arts novel grew into its writing extension, and in September 2026 into a separate app, Maro Writer.

We believe everyone who does serious work with AI needs the same thing: context that stays, work that is checked, and decisions that can be traced.

### The problem we work on

- **Context gets lost**:

  Each AI session starts fresh. Plans, constraints, and earlier decisions have to be explained again, or they quietly get dropped.
- **Work is scattered**:

  Results live across many chats, tools, and folders. It is hard to see what was done and why.
- **AI work is hard to check**:

  When several AI tools work on one project, it is hard to review what each produced and keep them moving in one direction.

## Record, review, decide

Every piece of our work runs through the same six-step loop inside Maro Portal. It is recorded, checked by a separate reviewer, and closed only with a decision on the record. Maro leads and decides; AI workers plan, build, and review in parallel.

- **Born**:

  A task is opened from the conversation, with your request kept in its original wording.
- **Checked**:

  Before it runs, the task is checked, so work starts from a clear request rather than a guess.
- **Run**:

  An AI worker does the work in its own session.
- **Evaluated**:

  A separate reviewer checks the result. The review receipt names the provider, and a partial pass stays partial.
- **Harvested**:

  Outputs are filed in dated work folders, and lessons go to the work encyclopedia.
- **Closed**:

  The task closes with its record. Nothing counts as done until it has been through review.

### On the record (October 8, 2026)

closed work records
:   470

closed after review
:   424

test files
:   493

product build receipts
:   117

## How we build

- **Evidence first**:

  Look at the real thing, then reason, then conclude. A claim of "done" is checked again, not taken on trust.
- **Done means usable**:

  If a feature works but is hard to use every day, it is not finished. Done is usable, correct, safe, and verifiable together.
- **Use what exists**:

  Before building something new, find what is already there. Wiring comes before new parts.
- **Calm above, busy below**:

  The first screen stays quiet. The complicated work happens under the surface, and you go to it only when you need to decide something.
- **Rules guide, bans are explicit**:

  Rules give direction rather than lock things down. What must never happen is written out plainly.
- **Failures are assets**:

  A failure is recorded, not hidden: what was expected, what happened, and the smallest check that would have caught it.

## Built with Claude

Claude is our main tool. Over 70% of our important work, meaning direction, design, planning, and the key reviews, runs on Claude. Other AI tools take the rest, mainly implementation and second reviews.

Claude is also connected inside both apps: as a provider in Maro Portal, and for co-writing in Maro Writer. Maro Writer was specified in a Claude Code session on September 27, 2026.

### Model-neutral by design

Maro Portal treats AI providers as replaceable parts, so other models also implement and give second reviews.

## Company facts

Company
:   Maro Labs

Founded
:   April 2026

Founder
:   Maro

Based in
:   South Korea

Team
:   Founder-led, working with parallel AI workers

What we make
:   AI-native workspace tools for macOS

Products
:   [Maro Portal](https://marolabs.kr/products/maro-portal/), [Maro Writer](https://marolabs.kr/products/maro-writer/)

Contact
:   [founder@marolabs.kr](mailto:founder@marolabs.kr)

Languages
:   Korean, English (website also in Japanese)

## Want to use Maro Portal or Maro Writer?

Tell us which app and what for. We reply by email.

[Request access](https://marolabs.kr/request-access/)[FAQ](https://marolabs.kr/support/)

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Maro Labs · South Korea · founder@marolabs.kr · https://marolabs.kr/ · Built with Claude