Royal Coast Rochester, New York
We build where new technology meets the institutions it will change.
We are an innovation lab and venture studio in Rochester, New York. We build software for industries in the middle of a technology shift, and turn the strongest products into companies.
Our work
One flagship in development, two products you can use today, and one system still being built.
Caddie
An AI workspace for college instructors. Caddie drafts grading feedback, study materials and lesson plans from the instructor's own rubrics and readings, and the instructor approves every word.
Student names and personal details are replaced before any AI model sees the work, so faculty get help without handing over their students.
What the instructor sees
Every Saturday I helped Abuela Rosa open her bakery. That ended the spring my brother Daniel was diagnosed with leukemia.
What the model sees
Every Saturday I helped PER-KYMF open her bakery. That ended the spring my brother PER-86FE was diagnosed with a serious illness.
PER-KYMF a token for one person a serious illness a detail generalised
The Olive Branch Review
A home for readers and writers. Members publish fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews, and enter themed competitions.
LegacyMGMT
A realism-first life and dynasty simulator for iOS. Build a fortune and a family that outlast three generations.
Simon
An autonomous trading research system that separates prediction from strategy, reports its real performance, and fails loudly when it does not know something.
Also in the lab: prototypes we build quickly to test an idea in the open, from a plain-language task organizer to tools we have not named yet.
We build from inside the industries we change.
Law, education, and medicine were built for a slower way of working, and most software aimed at them is designed by people looking in from outside. Our founder practises law, teaches at a university, and builds AI systems for legal professionals. We are not guessing at how these places work.
The name comes from the same idea. A coast is where two worlds meet and reshape each other.
Build ahead of the shift
Every product targets a change already underway, not a small improvement on how things work today.
Prove it cheaply
Ideas reach a working prototype quickly. The ones that fail their tests are shelved without sentiment.
Measure honestly
Our products report their real performance, including when they are wrong or unsure. So do we.
Founder
Regis Joseph Acosta
A lawyer, AI solutions architect and adjunct faculty member who has spent his career inside the institutions Royal Coast Labs builds for. He has deployed AI with attorneys and federal agencies, teaches at Nazareth University, and ships his own software.
The name is his, too. Regis means king, and Acosta means by the coast.
Rochester, on purpose
We build here and sell everywhere.
Rochester's universities train excellent engineers, designers, and researchers, and most of them leave after graduation. We would rather they stay and build, so we hire students from the University of Rochester, RIT, and Nazareth University into a paid cohort.
The studio was founded in 2026. Its first product, LegacyMGMT, shipped in July of that year.
Build with us
Faculty
Help shape Caddie as a design partner. We are looking for instructors in writing-heavy courses.
Investors and partners
We are glad to walk through the lab, the flagship, and what we are measuring.
Builders
Students and engineers in Rochester who want to work on real products, paid.
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