Walk into any lab built in the last 30 years and you’ll find it.
Legacy software.
Often built on a 1990s codebase.
Running on a fragile Windows XP machine in the corner.
No REST API. No modularity. No way out.

And somehow, it still works.
Barely.

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🧱 The Problem Isn’t That It’s Old—It’s That It’s Closed

Software without an API in 2025 is like a phone without internet access.
You can’t automate. You can’t integrate. You can’t build on top.

We live in a world of:

• AI models that need real-time data
• Dashboards that live in browsers
• Teams that work across systems and time zones
• Scientific workflows that demand flexibility

Yet we’re still stuck exporting CSVs and manually copying log files between silos that refuse to talk to each other.

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💸 Why Don’t OEMs Just Modernize?

Because for them, software is an afterthought.

To overhaul their tools:

• It’s a multi-hundred-thousand-euro effort
• It takes years
• And it threatens to break everything they’ve built up

So instead of rethinking it, they just… don’t.

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🛠️ Engineering Software by Engineers, for Engineers

Here’s the crux of it:

OEMs approach software like hardware.
As a fixed-function engineering project.

So what do you get?

• Functional, but ugly
• Stable, but unscalable
• Built without CI/CD, without UX, without modularity
• And absolutely no API

No documentation. No plug-ins. No roadmap. Just a blinking cursor.

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🤹 Meanwhile, the Software Industry Speaks a Different Language

• Modular
• Scalable
• API-first
• UX-driven
• Built for change

Independent software vendors understand this—but lack the deep domain context to build serious lab tools on their own.

OEMs have the context—but not the software culture.

The result?
A skill gap that’s currently only serviced by independent contractors who sit in the middle.

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🧠 What We Actually Need

• APIs as default
• Real-time data access
• Open ecosystems
• Software that plays nice with hardware—but isn’t bound by it
• Agile, updateable tools built by developers who understand research environments

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If you’re tired of silos and want your lab software to feel like it’s from this decade, not the last—
get in touch.
We’re building something better.