Who we are
A family-built AI lab in Cape Town.
NPU Labs is a small, family-built lab. We are engineers first, senior developers, software architects, and data engineers, and we build private AI the way we would want it built for our own business. Not a sales team, and not newcomers to the field. We are experienced at designing, building, deploying, and maintaining large enterprise systems in production: the engineering discipline AI work needs and rarely gets.
Senior developers
Hands on the keyboard, and on the systems long after launch. We build software we would be willing to maintain ourselves.
Software architects
Systems designed to last and to change. That's the difference between a prototype that impresses in a meeting and a platform a business can depend on.
Data engineers
Pipelines, evaluation, and the unglamorous plumbing that decides whether an AI system actually works in production.
What we focus on now
AI, system modernization, and private AI stacks.
We moved our focus to AI from the inside out. We have paid the cloud bills, operated the MLOps lifecycle, and learned what it really takes to get model inference correct, fast, and observable. That experience is why our AI work performs in production, not only in a demonstration.
We have paid the cloud bills
We run AI agents and LLMs in production at roughly US$7,800 a month, so we know exactly where the money goes and how owning the stack changes the economics.
We have run MLOps in production
Prepare, fine-tune, evaluate, deploy, monitor, retrain. The full lifecycle, not the launch. We build for the day after the model goes live.
Correct, observable inference
Throughput, latency, hallucinations, drift. On a dashboard, not discovered in the CEO's inbox. Getting this right is most of the work.
