Shkuro Labs
Software engineering · AI adoption · EU AI Act

Engineering advice for teams building software with AI.

Shkuro Labs helps companies in the US and Europe improve how they build software, bring AI into their development process, and prepare their AI systems for the EU AI Act.

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Who
Independent engineering consultancy
Where
Remote, with clients in the US and Europe
How
Advisory, fixed-scope projects, retainers
Services

What we do

01

Software development consulting

We help engineering organisations improve the architecture, performance and delivery of enterprise web applications, including data and platform migrations.

  • Architecture and performance assessments
  • Data and backend migration, from planning to delivery
  • Technical leadership and delivery process
02

AI in software engineering

We help teams adopt AI across the software development lifecycle and build AI capabilities into their products, with quality evaluation built in.

  • AI adoption strategy and team guidelines
  • LLM integration design and delivery support
  • Evaluation frameworks for AI features
03

EU AI Act readiness

We help organisations prepare their AI systems for the EU AI Act: classification, documentation, testing and oversight.

Technical readiness work, done alongside your legal counsel. Not legal advice.

  • AI system inventory and risk classification
  • Technical documentation and governance checklist
  • Testing, logging and monitoring setup
Approach

How we work together

Advisory

Hourly consulting on a specific question: a review, a second opinion, or a decision you need to make.

Good for architecture decisions, tool selection and AI Act scoping.

Project

A fixed scope with agreed deliverables and a timeline, such as an audit, an evaluation framework or a rollout plan.

Good for audits, readiness assessments and integrations.

Retainer

A set number of hours each month for ongoing technical leadership and support while your team does the work.

Good for teams adopting AI over several months.

Work

Selected projects

Representative projects from our team's experience. Client names are confidential.

Public sector

AI-assisted analysis of public consultation responses

Challenge
A public-sector organisation needed a consistent way to review and summarise written responses to public consultations.
Solution
Design and delivery of an AI pipeline that summarises and categorises responses, with quality controls that keep each summary faithful to the source text.
Enterprise software

Performance optimisation and platform migration

Challenge
An enterprise web application needed faster response times, a more reliable release process and a move away from a legacy backend.
Solution
Performance optimisation across the application and database layers, a more stable build and release pipeline, and migration of data and backend services to a new technology stack.
Enterprise software

AI capabilities and AI-assisted development

Challenge
An engineering organisation wanted to introduce AI into its product and its development process while meeting its security requirements.
Solution
Integration of an AI assistant into the product, a security review of the integration, a prototype of AI-powered search, and the introduction of AI coding tools into the development workflow.
About

About Shkuro Labs

Shkuro Labs is an independent consultancy for software engineering and applied AI.

The practice was founded by Nikolay Shkuro and builds on experience in software development since 2009, including leadership of engineering teams behind enterprise web applications.

We work with organisations in the United States and Europe on software delivery, AI adoption and readiness for the EU AI Act.

Shkuro Labs LLC is registered in Wyoming, USA, and operates remotely.

Contact

Have a project or a question? Write to us.

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