Chnai Lab is a small Cambodian product studio. You will help finish real owned products and may contribute to one of two tightly scoped client pilots—never an endless agency queue.
A verified lab-owned product can have an accountable lead with a written stake. Client work earns learning and accurate credit; it does not create ownership in the client's site or automatic lab equity.
Products can adopt shared AI capabilities when the use case and safety boundary fit. You learn to reuse working infrastructure without forcing AI into every build.
We measure progress by verified outcomes. Owned products carry “Made by CHNAI LAB”; client work carries “Powered by CHNAI LAB” only with approval.
Each track is mentored by the founder who leads it. You start with a small, real task and grow toward owning a subsystem.
Build features on live products (TypeScript, Next.js, Nuxt, Cloudflare). Mentored by Vatana.
Work on our Khmer-first AI capability — retrieval, prompts, voice. Mentored by Hongleng.
Harden auth, review integrity, threat-model our products. Mentored by Pagna.
Buyers, grants, go-to-market for products people actually use. Mentored by Geksim.
There's almost no cash right now — we're bootstrapped, and the first two client pilots are proposed as pro-bono learning collaborations. What there is, is real ownership on eligible lab products, accurate credit, and a written record of what you built.
That's a fair offer to a friend. Pretending cash is coming soon is not — so we don't.
You're genuinely good (or hungry to be) at one thing the products need.
Steady, sustainable part-time presence — not a burst then silence.
You can turn a vague idea into a short written spec.
You post an honest weekly check-in — including the bad news.
Students welcome. We plan in real hours and protect your studies — exam season is a sanctioned slowdown, written into how we work. Going quiet for finals is not ghosting.
Email us with your track and one thing you've built or want to build.
If it's a fit, the founder adds your email to the team workspace.
Sign up in the Portal, complete your profile, and sign your contributor agreement.
A first-week checklist, clear goals, and someone to ask anything.
Your first small contribution goes live — proof beats promises.
YOUR FIRST GOALS