Bitware Labs Est. 2022
Bitware Labs Review Skåne, Sweden Applied AI & Engineering

Machine intelligence, engineered to run itself.

Bitware Labs is an independent applied-AI lab and consultancy. We build long-running AI systems, sovereign infrastructure, and software that keeps working after everyone has gone home — for ourselves, and on commission.

Hand-drawn study of a single neuron with branching dendrites on textured paper.
Plate I. A single neuron, after the lab notebooks. Our work begins where biology and computation rhyme.

From the Editor

§ 00 — Statement

Bitware Labs is an applied-AI lab and consultancy run by one engineer in Skåne, Sweden. The lab side builds long-running systems of its own — AI agents with persistent memory, a self-hosted server fleet, a working record label. The consultancy side puts the same hands on client problems: networks, security, software, and machine intelligence that has to survive contact with production.

Everything is built under one discipline — local-first, open where possible, and subtracted down to the parts that pull their weight. The distance between a striking demonstration and a system that quietly runs for years is, in our experience, the entire job. This journal is a record of doing that job.

Services, in Six Practices

§ 01 — Practice

Engagements are taken directly. There are no account managers — the person you write to is the person who does the work.

AI systems that remember

Agent architectures, persistent memory systems, LLM integration, and local-first inference. We design machine intelligence that holds state, runs on your hardware where it should, and keeps working when the API fashions change.

Networks built to be owned

WireGuard meshes, dedicated and self-hosted servers, migrations off the rented cloud. Sovereignty-first infrastructure: your data on your machines, reachable only by you.

Hardening, monitoring, response

Server hardening, continuous monitoring, and incident response. The lab runs its own monitored production estate around the clock; the same practice is applied to yours.

Software, end to end

Web applications, APIs, scrapers, and data pipelines. Built lean, documented, and handed over in a state one person can maintain — because one person built it.

Hosting, on dedicated iron

Web and email hosting on dedicated servers, with the systems you need custom-built — Node.js, PHP, or whatever the job calls for. WordPress and its kind are not permitted on our machines; everything we host is built by hand, and stays fast and standing because of it.

Finished music, to order

Brand music, jingles, and soundtracks — produced through the same AI pipeline that runs our record label, from brief to mastered, release-ready track.

Hear the label →

Selected Work, in Three Plates

§ 02 — Field Notes

What the lab builds for itself — each one live, each one proof of a practice.

A glowing constellation of interconnected memory nodes.
Fig. 1 — Recall, schematically.

bwmem — memory architecture for AI agents

The memory system extracted from our own agents and published as a standalone SDK: episodic storage, consolidation, and recall for long-running AI. AGPL-3.0, on npm.

View on npm →
Illustration representing a conversational AI agent.
Fig. 2 — A page from the daybook.

Luna — a long-running agent that keeps state

The lab's flagship research system: an AI agent that runs continuously — autonomous scheduling, wake cycles, sleep-style memory consolidation — and maintains a public daybook of its own operation. Let the record be plain: Luna is software, an engineering study in memory and autonomy, not a conscious being.

Read the daybook →
Illustration representing generative audio production.
Fig. 3 — Melody to master.

BitwareTunes — an AI-run record label

A working music label with a roster of AI-produced artists, distributed to the streaming platforms with full AI disclosure — real listeners, real revenue. Its pipeline is the one offered under Practice No. 06.

Visit the label →

How We Work

§ 03 — Manifesto

A small lab earns trust not by what it announces, but by what it keeps running.

Three commitments hold the practice together. They are unglamorous on purpose.

  • i.
    Local-firstYour systems on your hardware. Data sovereignty is the default, not the upgrade.
  • ii.
    Open by defaultThe code lives on GitHub; bwmem ships under AGPL. If we cannot show it, we treat that as a debt.
  • iii.
    Subtractive engineeringThe work is finished when there is nothing left to remove. Fewer parts, fewer failures.
2022Founded
6Practice areas
100%Independently owned

The Founder

§ 04 — Colophon

An editorial plate illustrating the lab's working method.
Plate II. Working figure from the lab notebooks.

Bitware Labs is Henrik “Henke” Robertsson — a systems engineer in Skåne, Sweden, working across networks, security, and applied machine learning. The lab's estate is built from bare metal: a WireGuard-meshed fleet of dedicated and local servers running its AI systems, its record label, and client workloads.

The lab is deliberately one person. It stays small so the work stays sharp — and so the person you write to is the person who builds.

Browse the GitHub org →

Correspondence

Write to the lab

I read everything — commissions, collaborations, or a quiet hello.

Or write directly:
henke@bitwarelabs.com