We teach,
we make,
and we create.
Courses, live cohorts, team workshops and software, all made in Porto. Seven courses rated 4.7 out of 5 by more than 5,000 students. Another 500 engineers trained inside their own teams.
Three lines.
Different jobs, one standard. Make it simpler, and make it last.
We teach.
Developer education is the core of the business. Three ways in, depending on how you learn and who's paying.
We make.
Software that simplifies a developer's work. One product so far, and it's early. This is the line we're betting on.
We create.
None of this is for sale. It's where the teaching happens in public, and it's how most people find us.
Watching doesn't change how anyone writes code. Curiosity does. So we build for the moment a developer stops watching and starts trying.
Craft over volume
Ship fewer things, made well. We show the real moves that survive production, not theory and not hype.
Honesty earns trust
Say what's true, teach what works, and admit what doesn't. Trust is the whole asset, so we never trade it for a sale.
Teach to empower
Show what the technology can do, then show exactly how to do it, so people leave more capable and more free than before.
Everything the company makes, in one list.
Half a day to two days on your stack. Then a call at 30 days, to find out what stuck.
Build Your First AI Agent in .NET
Two days building an agent that reasons, uses tools and holds a conversation, in your stack.
02Designing Tests That Survive Refactorings
Half a day on why the test suite breaks every time someone refactors, and what to do instead.
03Mastering Test-Driven Development in C#
Two hands-on days turning TDD from a thing the team has read about into a thing the team does.
“The training stood out for its strong hands-on component and structured approach. Complex topics were made practical and directly applicable to daily work.”
Everything starts
with an email.
Gui Ferreira is the public face across all three lines. Black Lab Studios is the company behind them, and the name on the contract.
hello@blacklabstudios.comWe reply within two working days.
