Binary Research initially considered developing competitors to the file transfer programs Blast and Laplink.

The product to compete with Blast was dropped at an early stage, but a program to transfer files over parallel or serial cables was developed and marketed from 1994 to 1996 under several names, including Beam, UniBeam and LinkWiz.

This program was available in DOS, Windows 3.x, OS/2 2.0 and SCO Unix versions, and claimed to transfer files more rapidly than Laplink at that time.

Binary Research's next product, arising from the file transfer and parallel port technologies of Beam, was Ghost, first sold in 1996.

One of the most significant products BRI distributed was the UIU [1] (Universal Imaging Utility) which facilitates the creation of an image that can be deployed to a vast range of hardware, irrespective of brand, components and drivers.