Software for companies that make physical products
Hands-on architecture and technical leadership for scientific instruments, lab equipment, industrial automation and IoT. Nearly 20 years of shipping that kind of software.
Manufacturers
DirectWe land inside large, unfamiliar codebases and become useful quickly — building across firmware, backend and interface when the problem spans the whole stack.
- Modernizing legacy products
- Performance work on slow data paths
- AI and LLM features inside instrument software
Consultancies
White-labelWe step in as the senior technical partner on your own client engagements — when a project needs depth you do not have in-house.
- White-label delivery on client work
- Pre-sales workshops and technical due diligence
- Extra senior capacity, for as long as it is needed
Nearly two decades in this kind of software — and we still write the code.
Lab Upgrade is a consultancy for measurement devices, factories and field systems, run by people who have spent their careers in it.
We work directly for manufacturers, and as senior help for consultancies on their own client work.
Architecture, modernization, instruments, AI, embedded systems.
View services →Modernize & accelerate
When the product works but the codebase or the runtime no longer keep up.
- Legacy modernization
- Performance engineering
Build the product stack
From architecture decisions to shipped software that sits on real hardware.
- Software architecture
- Full-stack product development
- IoT, embedded & system integration
Domain & intelligence
Specialist software for laboratories, instruments and AI that has to stay under your control.
- Scientific & laboratory instrumentation
- AI & LLM integration
Plus technical leadership, team building and pre-sales advisory — how we engage.
A short review of the code, a talk with the people who use it, then a written note on what we would do next.