Winsen Labs · A research lab

We reimagine and rebuild the systems teams work with.

Winsen Labs is a small research lab. We study how intelligence is structured, turn that research into products people actually love, and help companies put AI to work. Properly. The research, the products, and the runtime that carries them all live under one roof.

Who we are

A small lab where the research and the products live in the same building.

We started Winsen Labs because most of the tools we used at work felt older than the people using them, and most of the research we cared about lived and died as a paper. So we built a place where research and product talk to each other every single day. Where a hard question is allowed to take a year if it needs one. We're small, we move slowly when slow is the right speed, and we answer the email ourselves.

What we do

One big idea, in several forms. Research, products, and the runtime that carries them all.

A compact program can grow useful structure. A neural network. A network of proteins. A company that wants to work alongside AI. We chase that idea from the research all the way into the products, and we keep everything open where we can.

Product · Open source02

Platos

The open-source agent runtime.

Build, ship, and operate AI agents on infrastructure you own. Model-agnostic, monitored by default, self-hostable in one docker compose up. No seat license. No lock-in. No drama.

Research · Open03

NDNA

A few hundred parameters that grow a whole network.

Our research on compact "genomes" that grow entire neural networks, then turn out to map onto the networks inside the body, from proteins to cancer pathways. Papers, code, and models: all open.

Product · Open source04

Rocketman

Idea to production, managed in the repo.

A project hub that lives in your codebase as one beautiful offline file, plus a Claude skill stack that walks an idea from spec to shipped. Project management, rebuilt for the age of AI coding agents.

How we help

We help a handful of teams each year make the leap to AI. Then we hand them the keys.

Each year we take on a few engagements with teams whose problems genuinely excite us. The kind where research is part of the answer, not an afterthought. We sit alongside your team, we ship something real, and we leave you owning every piece of it. No pitch deck. No black box. Just the work, done properly.

01

Build an internal company brain to help you integrate AI into your actual processes.

A private brain over your mail, calendar, tasks, docs, and data. Searchable, ask-able, and quietly compounding the longer you use it. The first step to weaving AI into how you actually work. Yours when we're done.

02

Put agents into production. Keep them alive.

From a sketch on a whiteboard to an agent that lives in production and earns its keep. We design it, wire it into your stack, put guardrails where they matter, and stay until your team has every answer.

03

Solve the hard graph problem.

Customers and products. Proteins and pathways. Internal knowledge graphs. If your hardest problem looks like a network, we bring the compact priors and structural transfer from our research, and we ship something you can actually run.

04

Run your agent runtime for you.

Don't want to run the runtime, the monitoring, and the model layer yourself? We host it on Platos, manage observability and routing, keep models and tools current, and let your team focus on what the agents do, not how they stay alive.