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Practical ventures for people on the grind.

Explore what we're building
Street-level movement and city life in New York.

Who we build for

Built for the grinding class.

The people trying to make a way. Build something. Own something. Protect something. Move themselves and their people forward.

They don't need us to carry them. They need fewer things standing in their way.

That's where we work.

Ownership
Preparedness
Civic access
Public-sector revenue

What we're building

Different problems. Same commitment to getting people moving.

01 Venture

COSTSNYC

Public information you can actually use.

Tools that make government information easier for everyday New Yorkers to understand and act on.

Civic access New Yorkers
Status: Live costsnyc.com
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CostsNYC venture interface mockup.
02 Venture

KEE PLANNED

Serious adulting, made practical.

Simple ways to get important life and estate preparedness handled without making it harder, more intimidating, or more expensive than it needs to be.

Preparedness Working households
Status: In build keeplanned.com
Explore KEE Planned
KEE Planned venture interface mockup.
03 Venture

OUR VENDORS

A clearer path to public-sector revenue.

Market intelligence and practical tools that help small businesses understand government buyers, find opportunities, and make their next move.

Public buying Small business
Status: In development ourvendorsnyc.com
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Market signals Active map
Buyers
Opportunities
Next moves
Clearer buyer paths
Smarter opportunity triage
Practical revenue decisions

How we work

We stay close to the friction, then build practical ways through it.

01

Start where the pain is real.

We begin with recurring obstacles people already know too well, not with abstract market theatre.

02

Look for leverage, not noise.

We focus on places where better information, better tools, or better workflows can materially change what happens next.

03

Build usable first.

The work has to be clear enough to finish, practical enough to trust, and grounded enough to survive contact with real life.

04

Learn in public.

Each venture sharpens the shared thesis and shows where the next piece of work should go.

Why

Too many important systems stay confusing, expensive, or effectively absent.

That is not because ordinary people lack seriousness. It is because too many tools are built far from the people who actually have to live with the consequences.

We care about the places where better execution can protect time, unlock opportunity, and make ordinary forward motion less fragile.

Too unclear
Too expensive
Too slow
Too thin

Who is behind it

Led by Colinford King Mattis.

King Movement Labs is the studio where judgment gets tested against real products, real systems, and real constraints.

The founder sets the thesis, but the point is not personality. The point is building ventures that earn trust by being useful.

More writing - For longer-form thinking beyond the studio site.

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Stay close to the work.

Occasional notes on what we are building, what we are learning, and where the work is moving next.

If any of this sits close to your world, reply when the notes land.