Yes Labs, Inc. · Austin, Texas

Yes Labs builds AI with AI.

Our current strategy is to turn vast public records into products people pay for. We've designed and built two, and both are working on real public data today.

Sightwater™, a true AI fishing app, is being built to be a fishing guide in your pocket, armed with maps that give you 3D visibility of your lake like no other.

Bill‑y™, an AI legislation screening and analysis platform, reads every bill filed in the legislature to determine, through a customized AI Lens, whether it affects your organization.

One founder built both by directing AI agents through more than 1,600 coding sessions.

Sightwater Bill‑y
Sightwater on a phone, looking along a rise on the bottom of Lake Buchanan from the boat

The idea

Public data is the raw material. Yes Labs uses AI to make that data sing.

Governments publish useful data sets by the thousands. Satellite images, weather data, lake surveys, topographic maps, bills, laws, fiscal notes, hearing records, and much more. Most of that data never reaches the people who need it in a way they can use it. Yes Labs picks fields where this "free" public data is rich and complex, builds AI tools to analyze, make use of and present the data, and ships the result as a product.

Why Sightwater™ and Bill‑y™ first

Yes Labs' founder knows both fields very well, and both have a public record deep enough to build a legitimate product with no outside capital.

Why Texas first

Texas is the top state for freshwater fishing and has one of the largest legislatures, with some of the best public data in the country.

Where we go from here

Both Sightwater™ and Bill‑y™ are designed to move to other states. Texas is the proving ground, but the plan is to go national.

Sightwater

As if the water in the lake were clear.

Fishing apps show a flat map from above. Sightwater™ shows the lake in three different 3D points of view, from the boat, from overhead, and from under the water.

From the boat, with the channel lights ahead.

From overhead, with structure switched on.

Along the bottom, under the water.

SIGHTWATER™

Lake maps with features like no others

About Sightwater™ What the app is and how its maps are made. Choose a lake Switch to another lake. Lake map The whole lake as a map. Layers Hill shade, place names and the other map layers, on or off. Structure Points, humps, ledges, drop-offs and flats, marked on the bottom. Mini map Where you are on the lake. Tap it for the lake map. Depth gauge The depth under the boat, in feet. Throttle How fast the boat goes. Steer The arrows turn the boat left and right. Planning or Fishing Planning mode lets you drive anywhere on the lake from anywhere else. Fishing follows your phone's GPS on the water, so the boat on the screen is your boat. Under the water Drive a small sub along the bottom. On the water Drive the boat on the surface. Boat finder Shows where the boat is. Channel markers Red and green lights along the river channel, on or off. Zoom Slide up to look closer, down to see more of the lake. Behind the boat The view from above and behind the boat. Straight overhead The view from straight above, to scale. GO Starts and stops the boat. 123456789101112131415161718
  1. 1About Sightwater™ What the app is and how its maps are made.
  2. 2Choose a lake Switch to another lake.
  3. 3Planning or Fishing Planning mode lets you drive anywhere on the lake from anywhere else. Fishing follows your phone's GPS on the water, so the boat on the screen is your boat.
  4. 4Lake map The whole lake as a map.
  5. 5Layers Hill shade, place names and the other map layers, on or off.
  6. 6Structure Points, humps, ledges, drop-offs and flats, marked on the bottom.
  7. 7Channel markers Red and green lights along the river channel, on or off.
  8. 8Boat finder Shows where the boat is.
  9. 9On the water Drive the boat on the surface.
  10. 10Under the water Drive a small sub along the bottom.
  11. 11Mini map Where you are on the lake. Tap it for the lake map.
  12. 12Zoom Slide up to look closer, down to see more of the lake.
  13. 13Depth gauge The depth under the boat, in feet.
  14. 14Behind the boat The view from above and behind the boat.
  15. 15Straight overhead The view from straight above, to scale.
  16. 16Throttle How fast the boat goes.
  17. 17Steer The arrows turn the boat left and right.
  18. 18GO Starts and stops the boat.

Depth maps are built for 67 Texas lakes, and 3D lake packs for 43 of the 50 launch lakes.

SIGHTWATER™In development

As if you had the smartest fishing guide in Texas in your pocket

Ask Sightwater™ where to start and it answers the way a guide would. It works out where fish should be from biology, forage, water conditions and the shape of the bottom, then gives you a short list of places, how deep to fish them, and why. All this based on your target species.

Tap a recommended spot and its card tells you why it is on today's list (or this weekend's).

The engine behind these answers is built and tested as code. The chat and the spot card shown here are design previews of what comes next.

Design preview of a chat between an angler and Sightwater about where to start on Lake Buchanan

Ask Sightwater™. Design preview.

A recommended spot and why. Design preview.

SIGHTWATER™Coming

A desktop Sightwater™ command center for planning your next fishing trip

Having Sightwater™ on your phone while you fish is useful and cutting edge. Having Sightwater™ on your desktop as a planning tool is revolutionary.

Design preview of a desktop Sightwater screen with the chat at left, the 3D lake in the centre, and the lake map and trip plan at right

Design preview, built from the app's real 3D view and lake map.

See more of the lake

A big screen shows far more of the bottom at once than a phone can.

Map and 3D together

Keep the lake map beside the 3D view, so you see where you are and what is under you.

Everything open

Leave Layers and Structure open while you work, and compare lakes side by side.

Plan from your desk

No boat and no GPS needed. Drive anywhere on the lake before you tow the boat there.

Today's water

Check the lake level before you leave the house.

A trip plan in order

Mark your spots, set the order, and keep wind and weather beside them.

Bill‑y

Thousands of bills are filed each legislative session. Bill‑y™ reads every one against what matters to your organization.

What the AI does

Bill‑y™ reads every bill in full against your organization's own Bill‑y™ AI Lens, a custom, comprehensive corpus of the details that make your organization what it is. Start your Lens from one of Bill‑y™'s templates or have the AI interview you and draft one for you.

Bill‑y™ flags proposed bills that have a direct or indirect effect on your organization and explains why.

Bill‑y™ spots re-filed bills that return from earlier sessions.

Bill‑y™ listens to the committee hearings the House and Senate broadcast and alerts you when your organization or something you care about is named. And it tracks every posted committee hearing that has one of your flagged bills on its agenda.

Bill‑y™ briefs you morning and evening, helps you draft bill impact statements and is there at any hour to discuss any bill you have questions about.

Our product closest to revenue

Solo

$99 / month

One lobbyist, consultant or staffer.

Team

$3,600 / year

An association, a firm, a city or county office.

Organization

$9,000 / year

A large city, an agency, a government affairs team.

In pilot since pre-filing opened on November 9, 2026. The 90th Texas Legislature convenes January 12, 2027. Prices are set, and paid accounts are the next switch to turn on.

What Bill‑y™ can do for you.

8 screens from the working app. Pick one above the picture, or step through them with the arrows or the Next button.

Home

Home

Screen 1 of 8
  1. 1Bills needing review The bills Bill‑y™ flagged, waiting for your team's read
  2. 2Mentions in committee hearings Every time your watch words were said, opens Said at the Capitol
  3. 3Impact bar Every flagged bill sorted by how it would affect you
  4. 4Where the session stands The whole session at a glance, filed, screened, flagged
  5. 5Bills you are tracking One shared priority list the whole team works from
  6. 6Said at the Capitol The latest things said about your programs, right on Home

Screens from the working pilot build, shown in Bill‑y™'s branding. 2025 Texas session, client names blurred.

The chat panel, always one click away.

The chat panel open beside the Home page with numbered callouts
  1. 1Ask Bill‑y™ Ask anything about your bills, any time
  2. 2Your Bill‑y™ chats Your own questions, kept as topics to return to
  3. 3Channels Team-wide rooms, like General and News
  4. 4Direct messages and groups Private talk with colleagues, inside the app
  • Ask about any bill. Answers come from the bill's own text and your Lens, with the quoted passages linked.
  • Two kinds of question. What a bill does to your programs, and how you might respond.
  • Private chats kept by topic, so you can pick one up later.
  • Team channels, direct messages and groups, plus a thread for every bill.
  • Ask in front of the team by mentioning the assistant in a channel or a bill thread.
  • Saved questions your organization keeps ready.

How we build at Yes Labs

We call ourselves "AI Whisperers." Here is what that means.

We don't just use AI to write code. We built a system that lets AI build products with us, with surprising speed and accuracy.

We built YesDo, a unique, AI-facing task and project tracker, to help AI work better with us.

Most AI agent tools are made for engineers. YesDo is made for sharp people who know what needs to be done but don't write the code themselves. YesDo makes it easy to direct (and track) work in plain English, and turn it into shipped software.

An AI chief of staff runs the team.

YesDo's Primus is the AI the founder discusses projects with and delegates to. Primus coordinates many AI coding agents at once and keeps each one on its assignment. It manages resources, sends every change through its checks, and works through the night when needed.

Work plans that don't go stale.

Every session card in YesDo involves two stages.

Intent. The card states what's needed and why it matters, plus a clear test for when the session is "done."

Prompt. Exact instructions for accomplishing the work, based on the current state of the project and code base, are written on the card immediately before the AI begins work.

AI across the whole business, not just the coding part.

The same approach runs our product research (multi-source reports that feed product decisions), our planning, marketing, and more.

Sightwater™ work in YesDo

YesDo coding tasks for Sightwater with numbered callouts
  1. 1Flight Plan What runs today and tonight, placed there by Primus
  2. 2A stack and its progress One goal in ordered steps, 36 of 49 done
  3. 3The next step The card the next coding session picks up
  4. 4Write the prompt An intent card, waiting for its full instructions
  5. 5Another Sightwater™ stack The app page itself, 32 of 53 steps done

The results, June 1 to November 10, 2026

1,600+AI coding sessions completed
6,900+code commits in our six busiest code repos
1,100product updates merged and shipped
300+unattended runs launched by Primus

A card at the Intent stage

A YesDo card at the Intent stage with numbered callouts
  1. 1Intent card Stage one, what is needed and why
  2. 2Serves Who it is for, the fisherman, and the demo
  3. 3Done when The test that says the work is finished
  4. 4Run with Which AI model, how hard it thinks, how heavy
  5. 5Its place in the stack Step 30 of 49 in the investor stack

The same kind of card at the Prompt stage

A YesDo card at the Prompt stage with numbered callouts
  1. 1Prompt card Stage two, the full written instructions
  2. 2Written against Stamped with the exact version of the code it was written for
  3. 3On the Flight Plan Primus put it on today's plan
  4. 4The instructions About 21,000 characters a coding session works from

What capital brings

Ready for more.

Yes Labs

More features

For Sightwater™, that means completing the AI recommendation engine, building the chat, and finishing the fishing-report checks.

For Bill‑y™, that means adding video to the "said at the capitol" feature.

More speed

For Sightwater™, that means running our map builds, physics models, satellite and weather data routines, and AI analyses on faster machines.

For Bill‑y™, that means running our bill analyses more quickly on faster machines and the ability to explore features like "people webs."

More states

In a nutshell, go nationwide. For Sightwater™, that means more lakes offered in more states.

For Bill‑y™, that means more coverage in more state legislatures. And then Congress, if desired.

More marketing

Neither product has been marketed yet. Marketing awaits.

More products

We keep getting better and better and faster and faster. Next.

SIGHTWATER™Live demo

To get a taste, take Sightwater™ for a spin on a Texas lake.

Pick a lake and drive it right here. Press GO, steer with the arrows, and slide the throttle.

Each lake is drawn in your browser from tens of megabytes of survey data, so the first load can take a minute. Lake Georgetown is the quickest. Best on Wi-Fi.

Open Lake Buchanan in its own tab