Rupture Labs is a product venture studio. We build compliance infrastructure, founder tools, and platforms designed to dismantle systems that extract value from workers, creators, and communities — and return it to them.
Who is this extracting from — and how do we stop it?
The compliance industry sells fear and charges by the hour. We build operating systems for compliance teams that make doing the right thing the default path — not the expensive one.
The tools that track equity, credit labor, and manage the paperwork of building something real — they don't exist for small teams. We build them because we need them ourselves.
Streaming platforms, gig apps, data brokers — they extract and redistribute upward. We design platforms with the payment structure inverted: value flows to creators and workers first.
The BSA/AML framework took decades to build. AI is reshaping how harm scales and spreads — and there's no equivalent architecture yet. We think that's a product problem worth solving.
We run a focused portfolio. Each project disrupts a specific extractive system.
A full compliance operating system for fintech and financial services teams. Integrates risk scoring, issue management, testing protocols, and regulatory intelligence in one platform.
Flagship · In DevEquity and labor tracking for co-founder teams. Logs hours, calculates deferred compensation, and surfaces the financial picture of what you've each actually contributed.
MVP BuiltAn AI-powered productivity and focus system designed for high-complexity cognitive work — adaptive scheduling, distraction architecture, and flow state optimization.
In SpecA music platform that pays artists at above-market royalty rates, funded by a community ownership model. Built for listeners who believe the people who make music should benefit from it.
ExploringDating infrastructure built compliance-first. AI matching, conversation coaching, and a trust and safety architecture that treats user protection as a product requirement, not an afterthought.
ConceptA legislative and regulatory architecture applying BSA/AML principles to AI and social media platforms — accountability infrastructure for the systems that now shape public reality.
Policy · ResearchRupture Labs was founded by Andres Garcia and Chris Albert — a compliance leader and a software engineer who got tired of watching the same extractive patterns repeat across every industry they worked in.
"The tools that should exist for the people doing real work — they just don't. So we build them."
We operate out of San Francisco. We meet every Wednesday. We ship things that matter.
Get in Touch10+ years in fintech risk and compliance. Former Head of AML at Interactive Brokers, compliance leadership at Block/Cash App and Bluevine. JD, CAMS. Builder of the FORTRESS, COMPASS, and SENTINEL compliance frameworks.
Software engineer and systems architect. Brings the technical depth to turn compliance frameworks and product concepts into working infrastructure. Co-architect of the Rupture Labs platform stack.
We're early and focused. If you're a potential customer, partner, investor, or collaborator — we want to hear from you.