Services
Eight capabilities. One surface.
What does Willowark do?
Willowark engineers across the boundary between digital and physical systems: AI automation, custom software, cloud infrastructure, industrial automation, machine vision and sensing, IoT and edge, systems integration, and R&D. The point is not the menu — it is that one accountable partner covers all of it, so a problem that spans four of them does not stall at the seams between four vendors.
Hover or focus a component to see what it is and what it talks to. Arrow keys move between them.
Eight engineering capabilities drawn as one connected surface: vision feeds industrial automation, IoT feeds cloud, AI feeds software, and systems integration touches all of them. Most projects are two or three of these; the value is in the seams.
Components:
- Vision & sensing: Cameras, lighting, radar, X-ray, metrology — the part of the system that perceives.
- Industrial automation: PLCs, machine data, traceability, production monitoring.
- IoT & edge: Gateways, sensors, embedded Linux and microcontrollers on the DIN rail.
- Systems integration: The seam: protocols, data, machine-to-cloud, legacy connectivity.
- Cloud & infrastructure: Where the data lives and what watches it.
- AI & automation: Agents, document processing, knowledge systems, industrial AI.
- Software engineering: The applications, APIs and data systems people actually use.
- R&D & prototyping: Bench to pilot: proofs of concept, instruments, product engineering.
Connections:
- Vision & sensing to Industrial automation
- Vision & sensing to Systems integration
- Industrial automation to Systems integration
- IoT & edge to Cloud & infrastructure
- IoT & edge to Systems integration
- Systems integration to Software engineering
- Systems integration to Cloud & infrastructure
- AI & automation to Software engineering
- Cloud & infrastructure to Software engineering
- R&D & prototyping to Vision & sensing
- R&D & prototyping to IoT & edge
Edges connect the capabilities that combine on real projects. Hover or focus one; arrow keys move between them.
The eight
74 services under eight capabilities.
Depth is the difference from a generalist agency. Every capability page lists what is included, how it is approached, and what drives its cost.
- 01AI & Intelligent AutomationAI agents, workflow automation, LLM integration, and knowledge systems that take repetitive work off your team's plate.8 services →
- 02Software EngineeringCustom software from rapid prototype to production — full stack, backend, APIs, data systems, and internal tools.8 services →
- 03Cloud & InfrastructureCloud architecture, DevOps, deployment, and edge-to-cloud infrastructure that keeps systems running.9 services →
- 04Industrial AutomationManufacturing automation, machine integration, IIoT, production monitoring, and industrial AI for the plant floor.10 services →
- 05Vision & Advanced SensingMachine vision, AI inspection, laser measurement, 3D vision, radar, X-ray integration, and sensor fusion.10 services →
- 06IoT & Smart SystemsRaspberry Pi and embedded systems, smart sensors, electrical and energy monitoring, gateways, and edge computing.12 services →
- 07Systems IntegrationWe make technologies that weren't designed together work as one system — hardware, software, machines, and cloud.8 services →
- 08R&D & PrototypingProofs of concept, product engineering, test systems, and experimental builds — from technical idea to working prototype.9 services →
Combinations
Most projects are two or three of these.
A steel-mill systems provider
Radar-based centering system for steel mills
- Vision & Advanced Sensing
- Industrial Automation
- Systems Integration
An industrial measurement company
X-ray thickness gauge
- Vision & Advanced Sensing
- R&D & Prototyping
- Software Engineering
A global automotive manufacturer's training operation
AI operating software for training operations
- AI & Intelligent Automation
- Software Engineering
- Cloud & Infrastructure
A global loyalty & rewards platform
Global loyalty & rewards platform modernization
- Software Engineering
- Systems Integration
Asked about the eight
Why eight capabilities under one roof?
Because the problems we take on span them. A machine vision project needs a PLC integration, a database and a dashboard before it is useful; an IoT rollout needs cloud infrastructure and software people will open. Splitting that across four vendors is how projects stall at the seams. One accountable engineering partner across all of it is the whole point.
Do you subcontract any of it?
The engineering is ours. Where a project needs a trade — panel building, electrical installation, machining — we work alongside your existing contractors or recommend one we have worked with, and we say so in the scope.
What do you not do?
We do not build products for consumers, we do not do IT support or managed services, and we do not take on work where the honest answer is an off-the-shelf tool — we will tell you which one. Each capability page names its own boundaries where they exist.
How do you price across disciplines?
One written scope, one price, however many disciplines it spans. Scoped projects are priced against deliverables; contract and fractional work is time-based; retainers reserve capacity. Each capability page sets out what drives its cost, what a first phase looks like and what makes it expensive — no rates are published, and we say why.
Strategy. Software. Systems.
Have a system that should exist?
Tell us what your operation is doing manually, what isn't connected, or what you're trying to build. We'll tell you plainly whether and how we can help.