Verdict desk · ten labs.llc tools
Ten tools on the bench. Twenty checks each, every mark shown.
THE BENCH sets tools from labs.llc beside named alternatives on the open web. Each review opens with a scorecard: five bars of four yes-or-no checks, every check tied to a line of source code or a measurement with its time in UTC. No stars, no averaged opinions, and a named shortcoming in every verdict.
Who is judging. the.com.im is published by LABS, the studio that builds labs.llc. The bench tests our own instruments — how the scorecard accounts for that.
Bench reading · all ten
Rubric153 of 200 checks met across the docket. No tool has yet met R3: every one of the ten is narrower than the broadest rival we set it against, and each review says where.
The docket
Every verdict, one line each
Ten tools drawn at random from the labs.llc catalogue on 27 September 2026, listed in the order the draw dealt them rather than by score. Read the five bars, not only the total: a live market desk cannot be self-contained, and its Footprint bar says so by design.
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01
Diversions · Sound
Laband
A real turntable model in a tab; one deck, no sync, and an About paragraph the page contradicts.
16/20checks met -
02
Diversions · Words
Books
A clever shelf over a public catalogue; unfiltered, most of what it deals cannot be read.
14/20checks met -
03
Live Intelligence · Earth
The Moon
Computes the moon from Meeus and matched the Naval Observatory to the minute; knows nothing of where you stand.
18/20checks met -
04
Studio & Tools · Design
Logo Lab
Reproducible marks and candid exports; the SVG does not outline the type its catalogue line says it does.
15/20checks met -
05
Markets & Capital · Markets
Card
A watcher forbidden to write bonuses; thirteen cards, a three-week-old check and one known stale headline.
13/20checks met -
06
Studio & Tools · Design
Multipics
Sixteen presets compose finished blends on their own; no layer control, no undo, PNG only.
13/20checks met -
07
Live Intelligence · Internet
Routing
A readable window on BGP whose count matched Hurricane Electric's; no RPKI, and one source only.
16/20checks met -
08
Live Intelligence · Utilities
Diff & Crate
Its script makes no network request and its CRC-32 checks out; no paste box, no side-by-side view, ZIP only.
18/20checks met -
09
Studio & Tools · Utilities
Paper Tape Calculator
Eleven calculators on one exportable tape, decimal-clean in our run; its currency rates are examples, not live.
18/20checks met -
10
Markets & Capital · Markets
Finance
Primary sources, named, and a working Form 4 decoder; no portfolios, and a yield curve without the two-year.
12/20checks met
The rubric in brief
Five criteria, twenty checks
A check is met only when the evidence we hold shows it. Anything we could not see scores nothing, and the review says so.
Sources
Where the figures come from. Four checks, S1 to S4.
Candour
What it admits. Four checks, C1 to C4.
Proof
What our test showed. Four checks, P1 to P4.
Footprint
Where the work happens. Four checks, F1 to F4.
Reach
How far it goes against the field. Four checks, R1 to R4.