s SL Innovation Hub Auckland · Est. 2024
Now executing · Sprint 14 · 4 projects in production

We bring
ideas
into execution.

An innovation hub where design, AI, fabrication and prototyping live in the same room. From the first sketch to the working build, we hold the whole stack.

Tell us what you're making
Pine Harbour
Auckland
37° S · 174° E
02 — Capabilities

Five disciplines, one studio.

We don't specialise. We connect. Each capability strengthens the next — that's how ideas get from sketch to shipped.

01
SLH / 01 · Applied AI

Tools that think.

Custom copilots, agents, and computer vision — shipping, not pitching.

We build internal AI for teams who want it working in production. Domain-tuned models, agents that take real actions, vision pipelines for fabrication and QA. Prototypes in days, shipped in weeks.

CopilotsAgentsVisionFine-tuningEval
02
SLH / 02 · Industrial & Product Design

Drawings that hold.

From sketch to manufacturable file — form, material, supply.

Industrial design with the hard edges intact. Ergonomics, form studies, material selection, and design-for-manufacture handed off in files your factory can actually use. We work in CAD that prints.

CADForm studiesMaterialsDFMRenders
03
SLH / 03 · 3D Printing & Fabrication

Parts in the room.

SLA, FDM, MJF — single units, short runs, jigs and fixtures.

A working fabrication floor on site. Resin, filament, and multi-jet fusion, plus the finishing — sanding, painting, assembly — to make parts that look made, not printed. Hand-finished where it matters.

SLAFDMMJFFinishingFixtures
04
SLH / 04 · R&D & Prototyping

Build to learn.

Functional prototypes and electromechanical builds — iteration on real hardware.

Integrated mock-ups that work, not slides that describe them. Sensors, firmware, mechanical assembly — wired together fast so you can hold the question and change your mind cheaply.

Electro-mechFirmwareIntegrationTesting
05
SLH / 05 · Web & Digital Builds

Sites that load.

Marketing sites, product UI, internal tools — built fast, hosted on the edge.

Lightweight, fast, hand-built. We don't reach for a CMS unless you need one. Hosting set up, configured and managed on a global edge network — included.

SitesProduct UIToolingEdge hosting
03 — How we work

From a paragraph to a working build.

Four steps. Two-week sprints. Each one ends with something you can hold, run, or read.

01
Listen

Idea

A sketch. A paragraph. A voice memo. Tell us what you're trying to make — we'll figure out if we're the right ones to help.

~ Day one
02
Frame

Brief

A one-page brief, a clear scope, a fixed price. No fluff, no slide deck — just the path forward and what it will cost.

~ Week one
03
Make

Sprint

Two-week increments. Each sprint ends with something working — a part you can hold, a model you can run, a page you can read.

~ 2-week cycles
04
Ship

Execution

Tested, finished, handed over. Supported for 30 days. You leave with a thing that works, files you own, and a clear next step.

~ End of project
04 — Selected work

Things we've made real.

A small sample of recent projects. Each one started as a conversation and ended as something you could pick up.

Project 014 — Surgical instrument prototype R&D / 2026
Project 011 — AI inspection pipeline Applied AI / 2026
Project 009 — Consumer product housing ID + Fab / 2025
Project 007 — Internal ops tooling Digital / 2025
05 — About

A studio, not a vendor.

SL Innovation Hub is a five-discipline studio in Auckland's east. Design, AI, fabrication, prototyping, and digital live in the same room — because that's how good ideas get made real.

Most agencies hand you off. A designer to a developer to a fabricator to a contractor to a project manager. Each handoff costs you a week and a piece of the original intent. We hold the stack so the brief stays whole.

Bring us anything that needs to be made real — a product, a tool, a workflow, a website, a question with hardware in it. We'll tell you in a week whether it's worth doing, and if it is, we'll do it.

06 — Get in touch

Send us a brief.

Email
[email protected]
Response time
One business day.
Pine Harbour · Manukau
Auckland, NZ
s A paragraph. A sketch. A voicemail. We'll respond with a question, a price, or a start date.
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