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Where device meets cloud is where projects die. Not ours.

Embedded software, firmware-to-cloud integration and instrument connectivity — one team that speaks both hardware and software, fluently.

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Connected products usually fail in the gap: the firmware team and the cloud team each build their half competently, and the product dies in the seam between them — protocols that almost match, error states nobody owned, OTA updates designed last.

This is our home ground. We work from the device upward: firmware and embedded Linux, communication protocols, provisioning and fleet management, through to the cloud services, dashboards and apps that make the data worth collecting. One team, one architecture, no seam.

In a region full of companies building real physical things — instruments, devices, lab equipment — this is the capability that’s genuinely hard to hire: engineers who can read a schematic and design an API, and know how each constrains the other.

// what we deliver

What we deliver

Embedded software & firmware

Bare-metal and RTOS firmware, embedded Linux, and the device-side logic that has to work unattended for years.

Device-to-cloud platforms

Telemetry, provisioning, OTA updates and fleet management — the unglamorous infrastructure that decides whether a connected product survives contact with the field.

Instrument & lab integration

Getting data out of scientific instruments and production equipment into pipelines, databases and dashboards — serial, USB, vendor APIs, whatever it takes.

Prototyping to production

From proof-of-concept on a bench to a manufacturable, updatable, supportable product — with the software architecture planned for that journey from day one.

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Based in Cambridge and built for its economy of labs, devices and research-driven businesses — read more about software development in Cambridge.

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Web Applications

Bespoke web applications, customer portals and internal tools — built to replace the spreadsheets and stop-gaps holding your business together.

Mobile Apps

iOS and Android apps built around the thirty seconds your user actually has — not the demo that looks good in a meeting.

AI & LLM Integration

Practical LLM and machine-learning integration: document processing, triage, search and automation that pays for itself — with the hype filtered out.

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A short email is enough — what you do, what hurts, what you wish existed. We reply to every enquiry, usually within one working day.

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