Houston Labs landing page

Professional/futuristic single-page site for Houston Labs LLC.
Static index.html + styles.css; push to main auto-deploys via Forgejo hook.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# houstonlabs.us
Landing page for **Houston Labs LLC** — a New York technological R&D company.
Static site: plain `index.html` + `styles.css`, no build step.
## Deploy
Push to `main` on `git.us-ea.st/butler/houstonlabs.us` **is** the deploy.
A Forgejo webhook hits `deploy-hook.service` on us-east, which runs
`git pull --ff-only` in `/var/www/houstonlabs.us` and re-chowns to `www-data`.
nginx serves it at https://houstonlabs.us. No restart, no rebuild.
Verify a deploy: `ssh us-east 'journalctl -u deploy-hook -n 20'`
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<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Houston Labs — Technological Research &amp; Development</title>
<meta name="description" content="Houston Labs is a technological research and development company building the tools, systems, and ideas where advanced technology meets human creativity.">
<meta name="theme-color" content="#070810">
<!-- Open Graph -->
<meta property="og:type" content="website">
<meta property="og:title" content="Houston Labs">
<meta property="og:description" content="Engineering the future of creative technology. A research &amp; development company by Lambert Houston.">
<meta property="og:url" content="https://houstonlabs.us/">
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<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Space+Grotesk:wght@400;500;600;700&family=Inter:wght@400;500;600&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css">
</head>
<body>
<div class="field" aria-hidden="true"></div>
<header class="nav">
<a class="brand" href="/">
<svg class="brand-mark" viewBox="0 0 32 32" width="26" height="26" aria-hidden="true">
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<span class="brand-name">HOUSTON&nbsp;LABS</span>
</a>
<nav class="nav-links">
<a href="#focus">Focus</a>
<a href="#founder">Founder</a>
<a class="nav-cta" href="mailto:contact@houstonlabs.us">Contact</a>
</nav>
</header>
<main>
<section class="hero">
<p class="eyebrow">Technological Research &amp; Development</p>
<h1>Engineering the future of<br><span class="grad">creative technology.</span></h1>
<p class="lede">Houston Labs is a research and development company building the tools, systems,
and ideas at the frontier where advanced technology meets human creativity.</p>
<div class="cta-row">
<a class="btn btn-primary" href="mailto:contact@houstonlabs.us">Start a conversation</a>
<a class="btn btn-ghost" href="#focus">See our focus →</a>
</div>
</section>
<section class="thesis">
<p><span class="thesis-lead">The next era of creative work</span> will be defined by the technology
built to serve it. We research that frontier, prototype what it makes possible, and ship the
systems that bring it into the real world.</p>
</section>
<section class="focus" id="focus">
<div class="section-head">
<span class="label">/ What we do</span>
<h2>Four ways we work</h2>
</div>
<div class="grid">
<article class="card">
<span class="idx">01</span>
<h3>Applied Research</h3>
<p>Exploratory R&amp;D at the edge of emerging technology — taking ideas from first
principles to working prototype.</p>
</article>
<article class="card">
<span class="idx">02</span>
<h3>Creative Technology</h3>
<p>Systems and tooling built for storytellers, studios, and the people shaping the
future of visual media.</p>
</article>
<article class="card">
<span class="idx">03</span>
<h3>Product &amp; Ventures</h3>
<p>Turning research into products and ventures — with a clear, deliberate path from
the lab to the market.</p>
</article>
<article class="card">
<span class="idx">04</span>
<h3>Advisory</h3>
<p>Strategic guidance for organizations navigating the shift to AI-native creative
pipelines and production.</p>
</article>
</div>
</section>
<section class="founder" id="founder">
<div class="section-head">
<span class="label">/ Leadership</span>
<h2>Founded on a rare vantage point</h2>
</div>
<div class="founder-body">
<p>Houston Labs is founded and led by <strong>Lambert Houston</strong>, Chief Executive Officer.
A career in the film industry gave Lambert a firsthand understanding of how creative work
actually gets made — and an instinct for where technology can take it next.</p>
<p>That perspective is the company&rsquo;s foundation: an R&amp;D firm that understands the future
of creative technologies because it has lived the craft those technologies are built to serve.</p>
</div>
</section>
</main>
<footer class="foot" id="contact">
<div class="foot-top">
<a class="btn btn-primary" href="mailto:contact@houstonlabs.us">contact@houstonlabs.us</a>
</div>
<div class="foot-meta">
<span class="brand-name">HOUSTON&nbsp;LABS</span>
<span>Houston Labs&nbsp;LLC · A New York Limited Liability Company</span>
<span>© 2026 Houston Labs LLC. All rights reserved.</span>
</div>
</footer>
</body>
</html>
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