Our Services
Consultancy for instrument and industrial software — delivered by people with nearly 20 years of hands-on expertise.
Modernize & accelerate
When the product works but the codebase or the runtime no longer keep up.
Legacy Modernization
Bringing decades-old codebases back to a state where they can be developed, tested and sold again. Recent work includes recovering a 20-year-old particle analyzer after the originating company had lost functional knowledge of its own product — with the product shipping throughout.
Performance Engineering
Measurement-driven work on the bottlenecks that make good products feel slow. Recent results include a data-processing workflow reduced from roughly 60 seconds to under 0.2 seconds, and a metal-sorting decision path engineered to complete in under 10 milliseconds from sensor reading to actuator command.
Build the product stack
From architecture decisions to shipped software that sits on real hardware.
Software Architecture
Design and implementation of scalable, maintainable architectures for complex desktop, web and embedded systems — module boundaries, data models, concurrency strategy, hardware abstraction layers and the integration seams between software and instrumentation.
Full-Stack Product Development
Taking a product from idea to something real customers use: discovery and scoping, a proof of concept that answers the riskiest question first, then web applications and APIs, multi-tenant access control, document automation and containerised production deployment.
IoT, Embedded & System Integration
End-to-end systems where firmware, networking, backend and interface have to work as one — custom ESP32 firmware, DALI, MQTT, LoRa and WiFi mesh, Siemens PLC interfacing and fleet management, proven on a street-lighting platform running on 400+ field devices.
Domain & intelligence
Specialist software for laboratories, instruments and AI that has to stay under your control.
Scientific & Laboratory Instrumentation
Deep domain expertise in the software that sits between a measurement device and its operator: microscopy, optical emission spectrometry, hardness testing, particle and surface analysis — instrument control, image processing, audit-ready result histories and licensing models.
AI & LLM Integration
Practical integration of language and vision models into products that have to be reliable — LLM features inside instrument software, OCR and structured document extraction, and self-hosted inference so that personal or commercially sensitive data never leaves your own infrastructure (GDPR-friendly by design).
How we engage
Leadership, advisory and delivery shaped around how much capacity you need and for how long.
Technical Leadership & Team Building
Interim leadership while you recruit, or building the capability permanently. Our founder has managed a technical pool of 60+ developers, QA and support staff, built a startup engineering team from scratch in under six months, and initiated more than twenty self-sustained project teams.
Pre-Sales & Technical Advisory
Support for the conversations that happen before a project is won: pre-sales workshops with prospective clients, technical due diligence, feasibility studies, effort estimation and second-opinion reviews on architecture or vendor proposals.
Engagement models
Advisory Retainer
A recurring block of time each month for architecture reviews, technical decisions and second opinions. Best when you have a capable team that occasionally needs senior input.
Project Engagement
A defined scope with agreed deliverables and timeline. Best for a proof of concept, a modernization phase or a specific feature set.
Embedded Consultant
We join your team for an extended period as architect, technical lead or senior developer. Best for sustained development work across multiple teams.
Team Assembly
For work larger than one person, we put together and lead a team, drawing on our own network and on specialized partners.
Engagements typically start with a short paid discovery: we look at the code, talk to the team, and come back with a written assessment and a recommended plan. That way both sides know what they are committing to before anyone commits.
Ready to Get Started?
Contact us today to discuss your technical challenges and project requirements.
office@labupgrade.io