About Vindico Labs
Building the future with the same excitement we felt booting up our first home computers.
In the 80s and 90s, anyone who grew up around early PCs or dial-up modems knows the feeling: that electric moment when the screen flickered on, or the modem screeched into life, and you realised something powerful was about to connect.
Today, AI gives us that feeling again.
Vindico Labs exists to capture that moment — and turn it into real, working software ventures.
Why We Built Labs
We've been building complex, high-stakes software for 15 years. Systems used daily in sport, care, defence, transport, construction, and live venues. Platforms trusted by thousands of users, operating behind the scenes in environments where reliability matters.
But something has changed.
For the first time since the dawn of the internet and the home PC, the world feels wide open again. Tools are faster. Prototyping is instant. AI accelerates everything. And the barrier to building something meaningful has collapsed.
Vindico Labs is our way of moving at the speed this moment demands.
A Venture Studio — With Real Delivery Power Behind It
Labs is not a consultancy. Not an agency. Not an accelerator.
It's a venture studio — a place where ideas become prototypes, prototypes become MVPs, and MVPs become real, functioning products.
We run two parallel tracks:
Track 1 — The Venture Engine
We build our own ventures and partner-led projects in structured phases:
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1Prototype — small, fast, testable
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2MVP — focused, functional, market-ready
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3Live — scaling into a full product or company
Each venture follows one process, one page, one status — simple, transparent, measurable.
Track 2 — High-Speed Build Services
Labs also offers fast, high-value services for organisations that need to move now:
- Prototypes (from £15k–£50k)
- MVP builds (from £50k–£150k)
- Corporate Innovation Sprints
- CTO-as-a-Service
- AI-powered rapid tooling
No fluff. No bureaucracy. Just real builds, delivered quickly and cleanly.
This Is the Most Exciting Time in Computing Since the Early 80s
Back then, a 20MB hard drive and a 33MHz processor felt like the gateway to unlimited possibility. People built companies from garages. Everyone experimented. The rules hadn't been written yet.
Today feels the same — only faster.
Vindico Labs is built to operate in this precise moment — where speed, creativity, and experience matter more than scale.
Structured. Disciplined. Fast.
Every idea we develop or partner on moves through a clear, repeatable framework:
Identify the opportunity
Prototype quickly
Validate with real users
Build the MVP
Launch and evolve
This keeps things moving quickly but avoids the chaos you typically see in "lab" environments.
We use Vindico's engineering strength to build properly. We use Labs' speed to explore new possibilities. Together, it's a powerful combination.
Founders, Organisations, and Product Backers
Founders & Innovators
If you have deep domain knowledge and a strong idea — we can help turn it into a real product.
Organisations
If you've spotted a gap in your operations, we can prototype or build a solution fast — whether it becomes internal tooling or a full commercial venture.
Product Backers
Some ventures invite commercial support from aligned partners. These conversations happen privately and always under appropriate agreements.
Vindico Labs isn't starting from zero.
We're powered by the same team behind Vindico ICS: a company known for delivering robust, mission-critical systems across the UK.
We've built:
- Venue operations platforms
- Social care tools
- Defence training systems
- Mobile and cloud platforms
- Transport and logistics tools
- Environmental digital systems
Our work supports users across sectors where failure simply isn't an option.
Labs takes that experience — and turns it into a launchpad for the next generation of software products.
Builders. Problem Solvers. Early Computer Kids at Heart.
Vindico Labs is led by people who remember what it felt like to type your first line of code, load your first floppy disk, or wait patiently as a Commodore, Amiga, or 386 PC sputtered into life.
We bring that same curiosity into our work: a mix of engineering discipline and creative optimism.
We keep things simple. We ship. We build properly.
We believe in:
Rapid prototyping
Sensible engineering
Clear communication
Honest feasibility
Delivering what matters
We're here to build things that work — and to build things worth building.
If you've got something worth building, we want to hear about it.
Whether it's a problem in your organisation, a concept you've been sitting on, or a spark of an idea that needs exploring — this is the time.
Because right now, computing feels limitless again. And Vindico Labs is built to make the most of it.