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PRODUCT STUDIO

Useful ideas,
made real.

We build thoughtful products that remove friction, create clarity, and make everyday life a little easier.

01Small products. Meaningful change.
OUR PRODUCTS

Things we're
making useful.

We start with the small points of friction that quietly take up too much room in a person's day.

TroveTaking shape

Your whole
money picture.

Accounts, spending, subscriptions, budgets, goals and investments in one place, with dated currency conversion that keeps your history honest.

Explore the Trove personal finance app
FROM THE LAB

Two ideas
worth following.

Every product starts with a question. These are the early versions of the answers.

01 / TROVE

The spreadsheet
was telling us something

Ask someone who is genuinely on top of their money how they do it, and a surprising number will admit it comes down to a spreadsheet. Not an app with a waiting list. A grid, maintained by hand, usually a bit ugly.

This is easy to read as a failure of tooling, and mostly it is. But it is worth asking why the grid keeps winning. Each finance app tends to understand one part of your money extremely well — the current account, the card, the portfolio, the bills. The spreadsheet understands none of them well, and all of them together. When the question is "where do I actually stand", the second thing turns out to be more useful than the first.

Read how Trove approaches financial clarity
02 / VERO

What if proof
travelled with you?

A CV is a claim. A portfolio can be copied. A five-star rating often says more about one transaction, on one platform, on one day, than it does about the person who did the work.

For anyone whose reputation is attached to a recognisable employer, this barely registers. For everyone else — freelancers, contractors, tradespeople, anyone who works job to job — it is a genuine and recurring cost. You do the work, the work is good, and then you start again from zero the moment you move to a different platform. The proof stayed behind, because it was never really yours.

Read the idea behind portable proof of work
WHAT WE BELIEVE

Better products
start with real
human needs.

Vroe Labs is a product studio for useful ideas. We notice the parts of life that feel harder, noisier, or less trustworthy than they need to be, then turn those observations into focused tools.

Our products may solve different problems, but they share a point of view: technology should give people more clarity and agency, not more work. Trove is being built to help people understand their money. Vero is exploring how people can carry trustworthy proof of their work.

We build with care, stay close to the real problem, and leave room for the product to become better through use.

Small products. Meaningful change.
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