Pocket.Science
We turn your measurement problem into a working AI instrument
Bring us a phone, a camera, a sensor, or a dataset — and a question about the real world. In 2–6 weeks you get a working AI-assisted measurement or classification prototype in your hands. A working instrument, not a report.
By the team behind iSPEX (featured in Nature) and Black Hole Finder (front page of NRC) — 15 years of turning smartphones into scientific instruments.
You want to observe, measure, or classify something — without hiring a technical team
Businesses with a quality, inspection, or monitoring problem. Agencies that need field data. Startups that need a sensing prototype before they hire engineers. Research teams that need it built, not proposed. You know what you need to understand about the real world; we build the instrument that captures it, classifies it, and puts the result on your screen.
Four ways in
Phone as inspector
A phone-based inspection or quality-control tool: point the camera, get a measurement or pass/fail classification. Field-ready.
Field observation + AI
An observation app with AI classification for ecology, water, sky, materials, or anything your team or the public observes outdoors.
Private AI lab box
A local AI machine that analyzes your images, audio, or sensor streams on-premises. Your data never leaves the building.
Open sprint
Bring us your measurement problem. If it can be sensed, photographed, or logged, we can probably make an instrument out of it.
From problem to prototype
1. Problem call
A free call where you describe what you want to measure or classify. We tell you honestly whether a sprint can crack it.
2. Fixed quote
A scoped, fixed-price proposal within days — from €5,000 depending on scope. No hourly billing, no surprises.
3. The sprint
2–6 weeks of building: sensing, data pipeline, AI classification, interface. You see progress weekly.
4. Working prototype
You get a working instrument plus an optional support retainer. Our own instruments have run in production for 15 years.
We've been building smart instruments since before it was a category
Proof, not promises
iSPEX turned a smartphone into a spectropolarimeter — featured in Nature, validated at Plymouth Marine Laboratory against equipment costing tens of thousands of euros. Black Hole Finder lets citizen classifications automatically trigger robotic telescopes at Las Cumbres Observatory: 890,000+ classifications, 1,100+ automated follow-ups, running unattended today.
Instruments that survive contact with reality
Field calibration, messy data, real users, long-term operation — the unglamorous parts are where most prototypes die. Ours haven't: our platforms have run continuously for over a decade with millions of users.
Describe your measurement problem
Two sentences is enough. We reply within 24 hours, usually with a few sharp questions and an honest assessment.
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