Building software for teams that have outgrown spreadsheets.
L&Q Lab is a product R&D company. We study how growing businesses manage their people — and we build the tools to make it simpler, faster, and compliant from day one.
Most growing teams manage HR
the way they manage everything else.
They improvise. It works until it doesn't — and by the time it doesn't, the cost is high.
Stuck between spreadsheets and enterprise software
Systems built for 500+ employees don't fit a 50-person team. They're expensive, slow to deploy, and require dedicated IT. The alternative is manual work — and growing compliance risk.
Compliance is a full-time job nobody signed up for
Navigating employment rules across countries — leave entitlements, payroll tax, notice periods — is complex and constantly changing. Most SMEs don't have a dedicated HR person to own it.
Setup that takes months — time SMEs don't have
Traditional HR software implementations drag on. By the time the system is "live", the team has already moved on. Growing businesses need to be operational in days, not quarters.
A product company built on
deep engineering expertise.
L&Q Lab Private Limited is a software product company incorporated in January 2025. We build products for markets, not for clients. Our first focus: the HR and people management needs of growing businesses.
We operate lean and research-first. We talk to the people who live with this problem before we write a line of code. Everything we build is designed to get a real team operational — not to win a demo.
R&D-first mindset
We invest time upfront studying the problem — talking to founders, ops managers, and HR leads across 9 markets — before committing to a solution. Products that aren't needed don't get built.
Built for global SMEs from day one
Our target market spans India, Malaysia, Singapore, UAE, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland. We're not building for one country and retrofitting the rest.
Deep engineering at the core
Founded by engineers with 13+ years building enterprise software across IoT, FinTech, Cloud, and Mobile for global clients. We know what it takes to build systems that actually hold up.
13+ years building enterprise software for global clients across IoT, FinTech, Cloud, and Mobile.
Beta rolling out region by region.
We're in active development. Beta access opens market by market — follow along on LinkedIn for updates.