We rear insects, run the software that runs the farms, and publish what we learn, on the way to smaller farms.
Entolab started in 2021 as a research lab with too many trays and not enough published answers. We are still that lab. We just ship software now.
We began by rearing Tenebrio molitor ourselves, at the unglamorous scale where the real problems live: substrate moisture, climate drift, the quiet failures that halve a yield before anyone notices. Every protocol we trust was earned on a bench, not a whiteboard.
The more batches we ran, the more our spreadsheets buckled. The tooling we built to keep ourselves honest (batch genealogy, climate logs, yield forecasts) turned out to be the thing other facilities wanted most. So we productised it.
Today Entolab is three things that share one root: an Academy that teaches the husbandry, a Platform that runs the operation, and an Advisory practice that designs it. The same five years of lab work sits under all three.
We are still small on purpose. Staying close to the floor is how we keep the software honest and the advice worth paying for, and it is why we publish so much of what we learn for free.
We earn opinions by rearing, shipping, and failing at production scale — then we write them down. Nothing here is whiteboard-only.
Protocols, cost models, and post-mortems go out for free. A bigger, better-run industry is worth more to us than a moat.
Every feature in the Platform exists because a real facility needed it. If it does not change a decision on the floor, it does not ship.
A 10m² operation deserves the same discipline as a 4,000m² one. Scale is a setting, not a prerequisite for doing it properly.
An independent research lab in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, rearing Tenebrio molitor and writing down what actually worked.
The husbandry we wished we had had in year one, turned into a structured curriculum for operators.
Internal batch-tracking tooling outgrew the spreadsheets and became the operating system we now sell.
Organisations entering insect protein began asking us to design the operation, not just teach it.
An open research collaboration on rearing protein beyond Earth — the longest farm we know how to plan.
Whether you want to learn the husbandry, run your operation on our software, or design one from scratch, start where it makes sense.