# Sunlab Digital

> Sunlab Digital is a product and growth agency in St. Petersburg, Florida. Hardware design, software development, AI solutions, and marketing in one accountable team.

## Services

- [Hardware Design & Engineering Services](https://sunlabdigital.com/hardware/): Hardware design and engineering for connected products: PCB, firmware, enclosure, prototypes, validation, and manufacturing handoff in one team.
- [Custom Software Development Services](https://sunlabdigital.com/software/): Custom software development for web, mobile, platforms, internal tools, APIs, and connected products, built for use, change, and client ownership.
- [AI Solutions & Engineering Services](https://sunlabdigital.com/ai/): Applied AI solutions for products and workflows: use-case selection, computer vision, agents, retrieval, evaluation, integration, and deployment.
- [Marketing & Growth for Technical Products](https://sunlabdigital.com/marketing/): Positioning, brand, websites, SEO, content, campaigns, and analytics for technical products. One system from market clarity through measurable demand.

## Case studies

- [All case studies](https://sunlabdigital.com/our-work/): Case studies from Sunlab Digital covering hardware design, software development, AI engineering, and growth marketing. Written by the people who did the work.
- [Computer Vision Parking Occupancy Detection](https://sunlabdigital.com/our-work/smart-parking-ai/): Computer vision reads an entire deck in real time, replacing gate estimates with live occupancy by level and row for operators and drivers.
- [Automated Time Capture for Legal Practice](https://sunlabdigital.com/our-work/billup-legal-time-tracking/): BillUp observes the applications and Microsoft 365 activity of a fee earner and drafts the day's time entries for review and approval.
- [AI Agents for PCB Specification and Review](https://sunlabdigital.com/our-work/conductor-pcb-design-agent/): Conductor selects components, reads the datasheets, validates the electrical contracts, and returns a bill of materials and a schematic that can be built.
- [Organic Search Growth for a Fragrance Retailer](https://sunlabdigital.com/our-work/ecommerce-organic-growth/): Technical SEO, storefront performance engineering, and content built against measured search demand. Owned traffic in place of rented clicks.

## Journal

- [All journal entries](https://sunlabdigital.com/journal/): Technical articles from the engineering team
- [How to Choose a Software Development Company in Florida](https://sunlabdigital.com/journal/choosing-a-florida-software-development-partner/): A practical Florida software-company checklist: compare relevant work, delivery risk, code ownership, proposals, communication, and local fit.
- [How Long Hardware Development Really Takes](https://sunlabdigital.com/journal/how-long-hardware-development-takes/): Planning a hardware launch? What each phase adds to your calendar, why two design spins is the honest expectation, and what quietly extends a schedule.
- [What Custom Software Development Costs](https://sunlabdigital.com/journal/what-custom-software-development-costs/): Wondering what custom software really costs? Here are the variables that drive the price, the pricing models on offer, and how to read a proposal properly.
- [Questions to Ask a Development Partner](https://sunlabdigital.com/journal/questions-to-ask-a-development-partner/): About to run a vendor selection? These are the questions worth asking, what a strong answer sounds like, and what a vague one is quietly telling you.
- [Why Technical Products Fail to Rank in Search](https://sunlabdigital.com/journal/why-technical-products-fail-to-rank/): Your product is good and nobody finds it. Here is what breaks technical SEO, why keyword research fails for new categories, and the order to fix it in.
- [How to Avoid Software Vendor Lock-In](https://sunlabdigital.com/journal/how-to-avoid-vendor-lock-in/): Worried about getting trapped with one supplier? What software vendor lock-in looks like, the contract terms to insist on, and what a real handover involves.
- [How to Brief an Agency on a Technical Product](https://sunlabdigital.com/journal/briefing-an-agency-on-a-technical-product/): Handing an engineered product to a marketing team? Here is what to put in the brief, how to test whether an agency understood it, and what to do next.
- [How to Scope a Connected Product](https://sunlabdigital.com/journal/scoping-a-connected-product/): A device, the service it reports to, and the screen someone reads are one system. Here is how to scope all three before anyone quotes any of them.
- [How to Evaluate a Computer Vision Project](https://sunlabdigital.com/journal/evaluating-a-computer-vision-project/): Considering a vision system for your site? Here is why a clean demo proves little, what to ask for before you commit, and how to define good enough.

## Agency

- [About](https://sunlabdigital.com/about/): Sunlab is an integrated product and growth agency in St. Petersburg, Florida: hardware, software, AI, and marketing under one accountable team.
- [Process](https://sunlabdigital.com/process/): Sunlab's four-phase delivery method: define the scope, reduce technical and commercial risk, deliver in visible increments, and transfer the work to the client team.
- [Contact](https://sunlabdigital.com/contact/): Get in touch with Sunlab Digital. Tell us about your project, email the agency directly, or read what makes a first message easy for us to answer well.
- [Careers](https://sunlabdigital.com/careers/): Open engineering, AI, and marketing roles in St. Petersburg, Florida. What the work is actually like, how we hire, and how to send us something.

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