Bitware Labs ReviewSkåne, SwedenApplied 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.
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.
No.01
Applied AI · agents & memory
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.
No.02
Infrastructure · networks & servers
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.
No.03
Security · defence & response
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.
No.04
Development · web & systems
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.
No.05
Hosting · web & email
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.
No.06
Production · music
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.
What the lab builds for itself — each one live, each one proof of a practice.
Fig. 1 — Recall, schematically.
Open Source · @bitwarelabs/bwmem
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.
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.
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.
Plastic Fantastic — identify plastics by how they behave
A pocket identifier for the sorting bench. Answer what you can actually
observe — resin code, float, drop sound, bend, flame colour, smoke,
smell — and it ranks fourteen polymers by likelihood rather than
marching you down a decision tree, so one misread answer costs a
candidate probability instead of a dead end. It asks the free questions
first, and it will name PVC and PTFE without ever asking you to light
them. English, Swedish and Polish.
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
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.