Ghost Nodes wasn’t built to look impressive in architecture diagrams.
It was built for what happens later — when systems change, APIs break, and something that was “done” suddenly isn’t.
Behind Ghost Nodes stands Ghost Labs, a Stockholm-based team with deep roots in enterprise integration, system architecture, and change management.
Between us, we’ve spent more than 120 years working with integration in one form or another. Which is either reassuring or mildly concerning, depending on how you look at it.
Either way, Ghost Nodes is the result of that experience.
Not as another layer of tooling, but as infrastructure.
GHOST NODES – INTEGRATION INFRASTRUCTURE
Ghost Nodes isn’t a layer on top of your integrations.
It’s the backbone they run on.
Built for systems that don’t behave
Ghost Nodes is a Swedish-built integration infrastructure platform designed to work across legacy systems, modern architectures and the awkward space in between.
It orchestrates integrations, automation and AI-driven workflows without turning every change into a development project or a minor internal crisis.
Most integration work can be built and changed directly in Ghost Studio using visual drag-and-drop graphs, while the underlying execution remains structured, distributed, controlled and traceable.
The result: lless consultant dependency, fewer fragile workarounds and an integration setup that doesn’t need rebuilding every time reality interferes.
Why Ghost Nodes works in the real world
- Built as infrastructure — not another layer on top of your integrations
- Distributed by design — execution can run where systems and data already live
- AI-model independent — orchestrate commercial, open-source and private AI models without tying workflows to a single provider. Local or private models can be used when data needs to remain inside a customer-controlled environment.
- Built for more than integration — run integrations, automation and AI-driven workflows on the same underlying infrastructure
- Built across IT and OT — connect enterprise systems with operational technology across the environments where they actually run
- Independent by design — deploy across on-premises, private cloud and public cloud without tying the architecture to one environment or provider
- Built for internal ownership — technical teams can build and change visual graphs directly in Ghost Studio, with little or no coding and less dependency on external consultants.
- Swedish-built, customer-controlled — Ghost Labs develops and maintains the platform; you decide where it runs and where your data stays
- Built to evolve — dd new systems, services, AI models and execution environments without rebuilding the integration foundation
GHOST LABS – THE TEAM BEHIND THE BACKBONE
Long experience.
Low tolerance for bad architecture.
Low tolerance for bad architecture.
Ghost Labs is the team behind Ghost Nodes — with roots in BizTalk, C-Talk, enterprise architecture, and a fairly long list of integration problems we’d rather not relive.
Between us, we’ve spent more than 120 years working across enterprise systems, change management, integration, AI, and IoT. Which sounds dramatic when written out like that, but it does mean we’ve seen what holds up in production — and what usually doesn’t.
Experience matters. But so does curiosity. We still question old assumptions, test new ideas, and care a bit too much about getting the structure right.
The result: a team that builds infrastructure meant to survive reality — not just demos, diagrams, and optimistic workshop notes.
Why that experience matters
- Cross-disciplinary by default — spanning system science, behavioral research, and enterprise architecture
- Research-informed thinking — shaped by publications, lectures at KTH and executive think tanks with CIOs from around 30 of Sweden’s largest companies
- Built on real-world architecture work — not just frameworks, diagrams, and opinions
- Product-minded from the start — combining enterprise architecture with years of building, evolving and commercializing technology products
- Recognized for innovation — including a Microsoft .NET Award
The Ghost journey
Late 1990s
From C-Talk to Biztalk
In the late 1990s, several future team members of the Ghost Team were involved in developing C-Talk, an early integration technology using XML-based communication over HTTP. The work put the team close to the emerging web-services architecture that would soon reshape enterprise integration — including Microsoft BizTalk.
Early 2000s
From BizTalk to iBridge
In the early 2000s, one of today’s Ghost Labs Senior Advisors was elected to Microsoft Advisory Board and received an award from Bill Gates for the successes achieved with C-talk. The tech team behind C-talk was already questioning the limitation of centralized integration architectures. That work led to iBridge, a distributed integration platform that went on to win first prize in the Microsoft .net Awards.
2013
Think tank – Duqtor
In 2013, the future founders of Ghost Labs launched the think tank Duqtor in collaboration with Stockholm University and KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), focusing on applied research in digital strategies. More than 30 Swedish CIOs from companies such as Vattenfall, Ericsson, SAAB, SSAB, SECO Tools, and Atlas Copco joined the think tank, where integration was identified as the most critical capability for improving IT and business.
2019
From BizTalk and iBridge to Ghost Nodes
Years of architecture work, research and practical experience eventually converged into a new approach. In 2019, Ghost Labs was founded and development of Ghost Nodes accelerated. The goal was not to build another centralized integration platform. It was to take the lessons from C-Talk, BizTalk, iBridge and decades of enterprise architecture work — and build a distributed integration infrastructure around them.
2021
Microsoft & Google ISV Partner
In 2021, Ghost Labs became an ISV partner within both Microsoft and Google’s ecosystems, making Ghost Nodes available through Microsoft Azure Marketplace and Google Cloud Marketplace.