The technical division of Zenilify Consulting
Small improvements,
measured.
Kaizen Lab is a home lab built in public with a lean mindset: self-hosting, local AI, smart home and DIY hardware, tested on real gear, every day. Honest reviews backed by data and numbers. By tinkerers, for tinkerers. Improving 1% every day.
What we build
Smart home & IoT
ESP32 and ESPHome devices, mmWave presence, energy and environment sensors, Home Assistant automations that survive a power cut.
Self-hosting
Virtualisation, backups that are actually restored, identity, reverse proxies and a private mesh network across two sites.
Local AI
Voice assistants, transcription and image generation running on our own GPUs, with no cloud dependency and no data leaving the house.
DIY hardware
Prototypes on real boards: sensors, displays, power and isolation. Parts sourced, tested and documented before anything is recommended.
The method: measure, change one thing, measure again
Kaizen means continuous improvement. Every build starts with a baseline, changes a single variable and keeps what the numbers support. What broke is documented as carefully as what worked.
- Baseline. Measure before touching anything.
- One change. A single variable per iteration.
- Evidence. Keep it only if the data says so.
- Publish. Architecture, numbers, failures, lessons.
From the lab to the shop floor
Kaizen Lab is where Zenilify Consulting finds the failure modes on its own time. The same sensors, edge boxes, dashboards and alerting run here first, then become fixed-scope pilots for plants, workshops and offices.
Zenilify Consulting (HQ)
Operational excellence, quality and digital transformation for manufacturing.
Kaizen Lab (technical division)
Hardware, self-hosting and AI R&D, built in public.
Follow the build
Build logs, reviews and numbers. Questions, collaborations and hardware samples are welcome.