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What we’ve built, and what it took.
Commissioned work, described the way an engineer would describe it. Clients are unnamed at their request; the problems, the approaches and the systems are exactly as built.
Portable Bioanalytical Testing Instrument
Assay-grade protein analysis lives in centralized labs on benchtop instruments. Demand for clinically meaningful data outside those labs keeps growing, but every attempt to shrink the instrument trades away the analytical rigor that made the result worth having.
A deployable personal health analytics system that brings assay-grade measurement into a daily-use format — scientific-grade optics and custom analytical modules in a portable envelope, with sample handling automated so a run needs no operator technique.
Low-Cost Consumable Analytical Biochips
Analytical consumables are usually constrained by whichever single material or fabrication method the developer already owns — while real applications vary enormously across sensitivity, cost, durability and scale. The chip ends up designed around the process rather than the assay.
Biochip platforms developed with commercialization assumed from the outset: diverse materials and manufacturing techniques matched to each application, and programs carried from concept strategy through microfabrication and validation into pilot-scale production.
Handheld Pupillometry Sobriety Tester
Safety-critical industries need to judge whether an operator is fit for duty right now. The available impairment assessments are subjective, narrow, or built for a clinic — none of them survive a shift handover at a depot gate.
A handheld pupil-response platform that turns neurological impairment screening into a portable, decision-oriented test: high-speed eye tracking under controlled illumination, with a result an untrained supervisor can act on immediately.
Actively Chilled, Trackable Biosample Shipper
Conventional biosample shippers cool passively with gel packs or dry ice, so internal temperature depends on ambient conditions and drifts over long transit. Nobody knows whether a sample stayed in range until it arrives — and by then it is too late to matter.
An actively chilled shipper holding 4–12 °C throughout transport: compact thermoelectric cooling under closed-loop control, combined with real-time environmental sensing and telemetry that produces a verifiable record of the whole journey.
Continuous Lab Monitor
A freezer that fails at 2am costs a lab its samples, and most labs find out the next morning. Existing monitoring is tied to specific equipment brands, depends on the building network staying up, and goes quiet exactly when the power does.
A universally compatible environmental monitor that tracks temperature, humidity, power state and door status on any equipment, with dual-redundant cellular and WiFi alerting so a failure still reaches a human when the network or the mains does not.
Some work stays behind an NDA.
Client confidentiality is absolute — nothing proprietary leaves our hands, on a call or anywhere else. What we can do is talk through the domains we have worked in, the classes of problem we have solved and the failure modes we have seen, without touching anyone's technology.