AI Practical automation, built properly

Software and AI automation for teams that want to work smarter.

Lough Labs is an Irish software studio. We design and build custom software, mobile apps and AI-powered workflows that take the repetitive work off your plate, and we explain every step in plain English.

Example: supplier invoicesAutomated
  1. An invoice arrives by emailPDF, photo or scanInbox
  2. AI reads the documentSupplier, date, totals and line itemsAI
  3. A person checks anything unsureLow-confidence fields are flaggedReview
  4. Your accounts system is updatedNo retyping, no copy and pasteDone

What we do

Practical technology that fits the way you work.

We start from the job that needs doing, then choose the simplest technology that does it well: an app, an integration, or a carefully placed AI model.

Custom software and mobile apps

Web and mobile apps designed around how your people actually work, from the first sketch to the app store.

  • Internal tools, portals and dashboards
  • iOS and Android apps
  • Offline-first apps for work away from a desk

AI assistants and automation

Large language models put to work on real tasks, with sensible checks and a person in the loop where it matters.

  • Document processing and intelligent data extraction
  • Assistants that answer from your own documents
  • Drafting, summarising and sorting incoming work

Process automation and integrations

Connect the systems you already use and remove the manual steps between them.

  • Linking your apps through their APIs
  • Scheduled jobs, alerts and approvals
  • Replacing spreadsheet hand-offs and re-keying

Data and reporting

The numbers you need, when you need them, without a weekly spreadsheet marathon.

  • Clean, joined-up data from your systems
  • Dashboards and scheduled reports
  • Exports in the formats your team already uses

How we work

Small steps, working software, no surprises.

You see progress early and often, and you always know what is being built and why.

  1. 01

    Discover

    We start with the work, not the technology: what happens today, where the time goes, and what good would look like.

  2. 02

    Prototype quickly

    A working prototype in front of real users early, so decisions are made on something you can try.

  3. 03

    Build properly

    Production software with tests, security and privacy designed in from the start, not added at the end.

  4. 04

    Support and improve

    We stay on to fix, improve and keep things running smoothly as your needs change.

What we believe

Built responsibly, from the first line.

Privacy by design

Privacy is decided at the start. We collect as little as possible and protect what we keep.

Minimal data

If a feature works without personal data, it doesn’t get any.

Plain language

No jargon in our software, our documents or our conversations with you.

Build what’s needed

The simplest thing that solves the problem, built to last.

Let’s talk

Got a process that eats your week?

Tell us about it. We’ll give you an honest view of whether software or AI can help, and what it would take.