First Party Labs
A research lab building tools for coordination, quality of life, and AI infrastructure. Founded by Danielle Morrill and Jonathan Kressaty. Backed by Version One, Flybridge, Ritual Capital, and Volo Ventures.
Founders
Danielle Morrill
First employee at Twilio. YC S12 solo founder. Built Mattermark ($25M raised, acquired). Recruited by GitLab's CEO to build Meltano (spun out with GV backing), then led a 70-person marketing org from $25M to $150M ARR.
Jonathan Kressaty
Co-founder and CTO. Serial founder — Twimlbin (acquired by Twilio, 2015). Marketing technology consultant for GitHub, Wikimedia, and Frame.io. Engineer and product builder across telephony, data, and AI.
Portfolio at a Glance
Products
Live In development Coming soon
Groupthink Live · Paying customers
AI meeting coordination. Named agents join your meetings, take notes, and act on your behalf.
View roadmap →Dwellsmith Live · Early access
The operating system for domestic life. Making invisible household work visible.
View roadmap →YourSiteIsDown Live
Simple, beautiful uptime monitoring. Know when your sites go down before your customers do.
View roadmap →LinkSmith Built · Deploying soon
Link management for teams. Short links, QR codes, click analytics, and link-in-bio pages.
View roadmap →StartupGraph Live · Open source
Open startup database. 6,500+ companies with funding, headcount, and technology data.
View roadmap →Cogniscape In development
Find friends through shared experiences. Books, activities, adventures — not bios.
View roadmap →Tiller In development
iOS finance companion app. Track spending, set budgets, and grow your savings.
View roadmap →Open Source
Cooking with Claude
Recipe management and meal planning with AI. Template repo anyone can fork.
View on GitHub →MCP Meeting Server
Let any AI agent join a meeting as a named, speaking participant.
View on GitHub →Dwellsmith MCP Server
Manage your household from Claude Code. 13 tools for domestic life automation.
View on GitHub →